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"I can't predict how all of the questions and possibilities about Steven Soderbergh's Che will play out, but I can say -- and will say -- what a rare pleasure it is to have a film (or films) that, in our box-office obsessed, event-movie, Oscar-craving age, is actually worth talking about on so many levels," writes Cinematical's James Rocchi.
"Bad biographical dramas try to tell you everything about a person's life; good biographical dramas leave you inspired to find out the things not on-screen. Che is, by that yardstick, a very good biographical drama.
"To many, Che Guevara is an icon; to most, he's an image on a t-shirt. To some, he's a murderer; to others, an inspiration. Che (which I'll use throughout this review to refer to both films for reasons of clarity) does not show us the man behind the T-shirt; instead, it takes the more interesting direction of showing us how the man wound up on the T-shirt.
"Che doesn't wallow in Guevara's personal life -- this is how he felt, this is how he loved, this is what he believed, this made him what he is -- but simply shows us some (not all) of the events in Guevara's life and how they changed him and changed history."
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 22, 2008 at 12:04 AM
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