Last night I watched “Che” played and produced by Benicio del Toro. Let me say that the word “outstanding” doesn’t make justice. The movie is an incredible adaptation of the life of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and the journey to freedom. I was very impressed and just speechless to the passion of and the beauty that the movie holds. And if you don’t know the history of Cuba, shame on you. I can assure you they history is one of the most remarkable and mind-bending in the world.
Guevara thought of Latin America as one and even though he is Argentinean he fought for Cuba as if it were his home. He is a great hero to many people and should be an inspiration to all. He was brave enough to stand up and fight for freedom and made a revolution giving hope to a lot of people. He made it happen. The movie contains many of his famous quotes and a compilation of interviews. When some reported asked about how they won when many times they where out numbered nine to one, he answered: “Tolstoy remarks that military science assumes that bigger armies, with more men, wield greater force. On the other hand, only vaguely, do they recognize that during military combat the final strength of an army is also its true physical capacity multiplied by one unknown variable. One unknown variable. This variable is none other that the spirit of the troops measured as their greater or lesser desire to fight and confront danger. Men with the desire to fight that also understand why they are fighting, regardless of whom they are fighting whether under military geniuses or those of normal intelligence they will win.”
What is also interesting is that when the reported asked what was the most important quality of a revolutionary and Guevara said: “Love. A true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. Love of humanity, justice and truth. It's impossible to conceive of an authentic revolutionary without this one quality.” I truly stand by those words and I really don’t want to get too deep in my island politics and but I believe in a free Puerto Rico.
Below some recent images of the strike where parents and supporters where trying to give them food.The last one on the right it's a parent that was seriously injured by the police.
In conclusion, go see the movie and enjoy a good piece of history (one of Benicio’s finest work). Below the trailer…
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.” –Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.
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Great review. If you haven't already seen it, check out The Motorcycle Diaries...it's about Che when he's younger.
I love the quote.. =0
ooh... i want to see this movie now. great post!!
Vogue Gone Rogue
Che Guevarra is quite popular here too. I admire him.
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I recently saw Diarios de motocicleta and loved it! Che has been out for a while, but I still haven't gotten around to watching it. Great review!
-Delilah
This is so sad :( I can't believe the type of stuff that happens in other countries. I wish everyone could be free!
I saw all four hours of Che in theaters. I loved the first half but the second half, not so much. The second half made him look like a delusional buffoon and was painful to watch, but the first half made me feel like I understood the man and had a good idea about his strengths and faults.
Understand that many non-Hispanic Americans identify with Che as well. When conservative Americans criticize Che for his brutality, they are simply making excuses for not supporting the oppressed people of the world. America has supported far worse leaders than Che, like the South Korean government that ruled between 1950-1980, or Pinochet in Chile. Che identified with America's underclass as much as he identified with the Latin American underclass, and for that reason, we all can relate.
One of my favorite movies about America's relationship to Latin America is a sadly forgotten classic from the '80s called MISSING, about a father whose son disappeared in Chile. I highly recommend it.
It is true, the second half was not nearly as good as the first one.
I also agree with the fact that people who don't relate is because they haven't experience what is like to be oppressed or live to comfortable to care.
I guess I'm the only party-pooper here... but Che was another Stalin, Hitler, and Mau. He was a killer and an evil man who jailed more subjects than Stalin and murdered more people in his first 3 years of power than Hitler did in his first 6.
Che DESPISED the U.S. Here's a quote from him: "If the nuclear missiles had remained in Cuba,” Che confided to the London Daily Worker shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis "we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City."
Many people today idealize coummunism and do all they can to make people like Che (via things like this video) seem like a hero instead of what he really was: A murderer.
(Nothing personal, IGal!)
He did in fact murder a lot of people just like Bush and just like Obama. Even though the US Presidents don't do it with their own hands does not mean that they are not part of it. Sending troops to war (Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.) were thousands of people will died to "fight" for what? Petroleum! Well, I meant to say "terrorism"... So if it comes to how many people were killed I say US government outnumbers any of them.
And if I might say, Che fought upfront in real combat, not behind some desk, for what he believes in.
You can't compare Hitler with Che. They fought for completely opposite believes. Hitler wanted to eliminate a race. Che fought for equality and for freedom of military oppression.
Because most of you live in the US you don't see how they impose their ruling in others land and how they oppress the less fortunate. I can honestly say, from first hand experience, that the US government is not "nice" and as human rights "defendant" outside of their country, as they seem in CNN. Che experienced what the US was doing with Cuba and defend it until the end. Something that every Country should do.
"By this I mean the U.S. government...
because we have nothing against the American people.
There's not even a trace of hate in our country for the American people" -Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.
(Nothing personal either. Agree to disagree)
To be a person of love, a.k.a. Jesus, you don't use man made weapons, and that goes for anybody. Che was evil. Just like most of the leaders in this world. He started good, but became evil, he let man rule his decisions instead of God. A true person of God/love would have died defending their body as a marytr. Just like Jesus did. and torturing people is straight up pure evil and that's what he did. It's not right, it's morally wrong. I've never admired anybody that did this.
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