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Soderbergh's spectacular "Che"-volution
Messy, unfinished and utterly mesmerizing, Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour Che Guevara opus, starring Benicio del Toro, sets Cannes buzzing.
[2008-05-22]
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  • Seems kinda reminiscent of Beowulf

    The poem, not the movie!

    The self-fulfilling prophecy of failure after success in youth. I guess a lot of stories go down that path. Wonder if there was a self-conscious connection there?

    -- jimdarling
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    Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:42 AM

  • Leaves out la Cabana?

    What's the point of a movie about Che that leaves out his command and oversight of the executions at la Cabana?

    -- pubpundits
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    Thursday, May 22, 2008 02:53 PM

  • Four hours?

    hahahahahahahahahahahah !

    -- Electro Robot
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    Thursday, May 22, 2008 04:58 PM

  • To the 'REDS' - Larry Ferlinghetti, Oliver Stone, Maxine Walters, & others - you are WRONG about FIDEL/RAOUL

    To the ‘REDS’ - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Oliver Stone, Maxine Waters & OTHERS - you are wrong about Fidel/Raoul

    Fidel your tremendous oratory skill

    Did nothing for poor Che who they would corner and kill

    On that hostile drug infested Bolivian hill

    Yes Fidel education for all was your sacred pledge

    Conforming Cubanos with a Marxist pounding sledge

    Freedom of thought not important to your type of college

    Did you really think Nikita of the pounding shoe

    Would loose his load of missiles merely because of you

    Bidding the whole world a final adieu

    Yes Fidel you watched as mistakes of the Bay of Pigs were paraded

    Humiliating the Estados Unidos unaided

    While young Presdient JFK's glory faded

    But you found communist bloc touristicas don't pay

    Your companieros still drive 48 Chevys and Fords in dismay

    Leaving the economic fabric of your society in disarray

    Fidel watching the ruin of your grandoise plan

    Behind amber tinted windows of a new Mercedes sedan

    While meeting the Pope as you played the perfect charlatan

    Encouraging more socialist heroes with long boring diatribic speeches

    More volunteers like little Elian returned to your beaches

    Imprisoning and killing dissidents supposedly teaches

    The impressionable that this is a classless workers paradise

    No butter no toilet paper no electricity but what's a little sacrifice

    Always offering your anti-American advice

    Fidel on your tropical isle off the Gulf of Mexico

    Another aging dictator who overthrew Fulgencio

    Desperately hoping to outlive the prosperous capitalist tango.

    -- Zyskandar A. Jaimot
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    Friday, May 23, 2008 08:40 AM

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