Spent yesterday afternoon convalescing with this Kevin Costner film. I missed it in the cinema and did mean to catch it since a trip to Cuba meant that I was interested in all things Cuban last year.
Really well put together film about a period of which I knew little. The only thing that I was bit concerned about was the import of Costner’s character, Kenny O’Donnell. The DVD that I watched had an impressive range of historical background material about the events of October 1962, yet O’Donnell didn’t seem quite the player that he was in the film. Of course to tell this kind of story you need to have one character who witnesses most of the events, and O’Donnell is probably that character.
So much additional material is there on the DVD, that no student can possibly be disappointed. There are two separate commentaries which I haven’t ventured into, as well a wealth of other stuff.