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Looks like the film is divided into two parts, and a DVD Academy screener is floating around for Oscar contention (although I strongly doubt it will be nominated):
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On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto “Che” Guevara, an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people.
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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I think most of the second part is actually about his failures and the shit that went down in Bolivia. From what I've read he's not really portrayed as a hero in the first part either.
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Sandler wrote:
Looks very, very interesting. If they make him out to be some big hero though, I'll probably hate it.
Depends on how you'd define "hero"
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
I saw the first part of this the other night, and it is pretty safe to say that this is a standard drama/epic with a few minor twists.
Mainly that the film jumps back and forth a bit, one time frame occurring before Castro/Che enter Havana (which is where part 1 ends) and the other at Che's visit to the US and his subsequent speech at the UN in 1965. The latter scenes are filmed in a really nice grainy, contrasty cinema-verite style - probably to replicate some form of documentary realism. The technique is rather obvious and adds to the neutrality of the film for better or worse. It looks stylistically great but doesn't contribute much to the story.
So in this film I think a drama/epic could have unfolded without a non-linear narrative. Soderberg's done this before so I detected some degree of laziness on his behalf but I wouldn't say that it is by any means insincere - mainly because of Benicio Del-Toro's performance which is surely, surely going to get him an Oscar nomination. It is resoundingly excellent (he won at Cannes). Soderberg also never insults the intelligence of the audience, which is a good thing, unless of course you view some of the historical figures as nothing except cartoonish, right-wing stereotypes.
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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