"The Rum Diary"

The Rum Diary es an American movie based in Hunter's Thompson novel. The drama of the movie is about how a self independent journalist Paul Kemp (Jonny Depp) works i Puerto Rico, a Caribbean island which is pat of the United Sates territory, for a local news paper in the 1960's. The really reason of why he travel to puerto rico, besides the new work opportunities in the island, was because he was tired of the craziness and madness form who lived in New York, he wants something different. But like de said, "I found the weirdest earthly paradise". In summary, I like this movie, but i disagree and don't like in how in this movie is portrayed the Puertoricans culture and people.

One of the things that I love form this film was that him as a professional and a journalist publish the things the why they are, and not letting him out by the power and influential people how surround him, he write whats he thinks, not what the others wants to hear. Also I fell very identificated with this movie in the why that I know the places where the film is. It is true that for the vast majority of Americans, Puerto Rico is like a perfect paradise, it is US. territory and the beaches and hotels are fabulous, but by other hand, they ignore the really poverty and sadness the Puerto Rico lived. Also I dont like the racism that the American has over the Puerto Ricans, where in this movie they portrait the Puerto rican people as if all where of bad manners, inferiors, alcoholics and ignorants.