Strawberry and Chocolate

Strawberry and Chocolate is a Cuban film that was released in the US in 1995. Its main plot deals with a gay man Diego, who becomes friends with straight male student David. The 2 meet each other one day while eating ice cream outside. Diegos other friend dares him to see if he can have sex with David. So Diego trys to trick David by telling him he has photos of him in his apartment and if he wants them back that he will have to come over sometime to get them.

David goes to the home of Diego and asks for the pictures. He is hesistant to enter because he can sense that Deigo is gay and doesnt want to give him the wrong idea. Deigo keeps pulling out lies and gets David to fall a little bit deeper into his trap every couple of minutes. First he gets him to walk into the apartment, then to sit down for a minute, then he gets his shirt off by spilling tea on it "by accident" and saying its going to stain if you dont take it off right away.

Diego reveals to David that the way for him to win the bet was to put Davids shirt on the clothesline out the window to prove that he did the deed. But Deigo also confesses that he does love him and wants to become lovers. David has no interest in this and wanted to leave and never come back. But in addition to tea , David saw that Diego had other things that were banned in Cuba such as whiskey, certain art, and books.

David tells one his friends back at the university that a gay man tried to trick him and that he had banned materials. His friend tells him that maybe he should go back over there to get more evidence and clues toee if he is a revolutionary and to get him in trouble or report it to the authorities.

After hanging out with Deigo several times, David actually becomes friends with him and enjoys spending time with him. Another close friend of Deigos is Nancy, an older woman who has a crush on David also. David admits to Diego that he is a virgin and Diego sets up a date between Nacy and David and she takes his virginity.

In the end David sympathizes with Deigo and is his friend. He tells his other school buddy that there is nothing to worry about and the movie ends back at the ice cream parlor where the 2 men met. This movie was filmed well and had good production values. I read online that it was the only movie in Cuba, for the year, that was financed by the government.