--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 8/19/05 3:48 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > In reality, Che had no compunction about murdering, in cold blood, > > > the common man and the disadvantaged. > > > > Maybe he became that way, but during the period the movie portrays, > he was young, innocent, and idealistic. > > So was Hitler when he was selling his paintings on the streets of > Vienna.
I just saw the film two days ago so its fresh in my mind. My takeaway was that Che was infused with what most would view as commom virtures -- caring, kind, decicated, willing to scarifice for others, smart, humorous, adventurous. While the film may have taken some dramatic liberties, it is based on his diaries and I have not heard of critical complaints that the film deviates greatly. The film depicts his virtures, yet only a taint of idealism at that age. The film ends with him perplexed and pondering what his trip around South America had meant. He admitted it would be some time before it fully sunk in. But he knew the disquieting feeling revolved around seeing the injustice to so many. The point of the film, to me, was to ask, "what converted the gentler and kinder Che to a full-out revolutionary"? Che's conversion appeared to have been, while living in Gautamaula, the CIA-backed coup and assasination of democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatamala in 1954 who was implementing his land-reform platform. The film forces one to ask, "living with the same experiences, would I have followed a similar path? Or, if not, why not? Would I have simply looked the other way, eyes locked to the ground? And what am I turning my eyes from thes days?" The film, in general scope, could have been about almost any of us in our 20s, gennerally aimably, helpful folks, trying to do good things, aventurously wandering about. Plus we were far more idealistic and locked-into a specific vision of transformation than he was in his mid 20's, the period of the film. A parallel question the film rasi3ed in my mind, "what caused some of us to go another way? Did we forgow our youthful ideals. And what caused some to become life-long true believing revolutionaries -- long after the revolution appears to have become corrupt and stale?" ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
