Release Date: April 29, 2016
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi as Ed Myers
Adrian Sparks as Ernest Hemingway or "Papa"
Joely Richardson as Mary Hemingway
Minka Kelly as Debbie Hunt
Directed By: Bob Yari
Written By: Denne Bart Petitclerc
This is the story of revolution. Not only in Cuba but for the lives of Ernest Hemingway and Ed Myers. Hemingway, currently living in Cuba, is suffering from writer's block for his next book. When Ed Myers sends him a letter. Ed is a young journalist who was inspired by Hemingway while he was growing up. He was abandoned during the Great Depression and ran away from the orphanage at 14. He never learned much from his father and thought that Hemingway gave him more advise than his family ever did. Hemingway decides to take him under his wing and have him call him "Papa", everyone does. Ed soon learns of the demons that Papa holds with him, and the problems that Hemingway faces, not only in Cuba, but in his marriage as well. Through this movie Ed Myers shares that story of friendship, all though short, that they shared with the Great Ernest Hemingway.
I think the thing that stuck with me with this movie the most was the use of color. Ed's life, before Papa, are all earth tones. Lots of brown, black, beige, and boring. The only thing that has color in his world in America is Debbie. You can tell right away that she is going to be someone special because she is the only woman wearing lipstick in any of the scenes in America. Yet, the contrast is totally different when he goes to Cuba. His life there is full of color and excitement. That slowly changes over time in the film has he starts to get his life priorities straightened out. I think that it's one of the coolest way of showing how a character evolves, and you catch it even if you aren't paying attention.
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