Mraz believes that the film joins a cinematic compilation where "films meet many of our expectations about what history ought to be" (120). Mraz maintains his praise of Alea's historical constructions, asserting that the way the film addresses history is impartial and objective: "The Last Supper follows the classic model of both written and filmed history in insisting on the reality of the world that it has in fact created, however much this universe has resulted from research...
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The major convention of such history is that it has opened a window onto the past rather than constructed a particular version of it" (121). While I have no qualms with Mraz's assessment of the uses of the film's construction of history on the Cuban plantation, I find that the window Mraz speaks of offers a much more vague version of reality than Mraz indicates initially...
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