Split Decision (film)

Split Decision is filmmaker BrinJonathan Butlers cautionary examination of CubanAmerican relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped those relations since Fidel Castros revolution, through personal stories and interviews with the worlds most famous contemporary Cuban boxers and international authorities on Cuba.

Despite his winning streak, Rigondeaux remains largely isolated in America. He left his family in Cuba a mother who since died, a wife, a child he left his friends and his peers he left a familiar way of life and social system. He is not allowed to return to his homeland and is, essentially, shipwrecked now in search of the American Dream. As such, he stands in sharp contrast to his predecessors, Cuban boxers like Teofilo Stevenson and Felix Savon, who turned down offers of tens of millions of dollars to defect to America.Drawn in by Rigondeauxs story, Brin began a journey into the heart of Cuban boxing, examining a central question why would some Cuban Olympic gold medal winning boxers defect for money, while others reject money to stay in Cuba? ........

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