Che the Man, Not the T-shirt

Soderbergh’s Che refuses to typecast the revolutionary.

By Ben Kenigsberg

All biographical films garner charges of omissions; director Steven Soderbergh's Che actively courts them. The worst way to approach this two-part, four-and-a-half-hour anti-biopic is to see it as a film expressly about Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Those who expect a full portrait of the man will [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    I have never understood the bourgeoisie chic fascination with El Che.  The North American children who sport his image have no idea what they are doing.  We’re not talking progressive politics here, we’re talking bloody communist revolution.  Is that what these products of a capitalist society that educated them really stand for?

    I have friends in South America who have pictures of Che on the wall of their living rooms.  I can understand that.  Crap on my head all day and call it democracy and capitalism and I wouldn’t just be a Che fan, I would become a Marxist revolutionary.  When you don’t have equality under the law, free speech, or the ballot box, your options narrow.

    Two different worlds…

    United States Posted by K Foutsc on Feb 16, 2009 at 11:17 AM
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