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occasionally can make very powerful political and social statements.
Last night, I saw both parts of the film and yes, Benicio Del Toro is magnificent: not at all like Scott in "Patton" or O'Toole in "Lawrence of Arabia" both of whom portrayed their larger-than-life characters well, larger than life. Del Toro's portrait is far more approachable, more personal, and realistic--- art without ANY discernible artifice. Here is a man that has charisma but who leads with his heart, not his ego (actor and character).
What is it that would lead a young man, a doctor that came from a comfortable upper-class existence in Argentina, to risk his life helping a small group of soldiers in a tiny country fight its brutal dictator?
And, when the unlikely victory was achieved, to then travel to Africa and S. America similarly to spearhead revolts?
It would be fair to say Del Toro carries the 4-hour film quite easily, maintaining our interest in the character through no discernible arsenal of a modern actor's tricks: it is eerily similar to watching a documentary.
The direction, by Soderbergh, is all but invisible. He too eschews cliché. There is none of the action trickery or bravura camerawork and editing we've come to expect since "Private Ryan." None of the stock secondary military figures with their personal stories to endear them. There is nothing to soften what so skillfully is shown: the feeling of what it must be like to subsist in primitive conditions and to be, on a daily basis, remorselessly hunted with very little chance of survival.
The effect of the film is mystifying, disorienting, and bewildering: it is so different from what a film goer expects from a "war" or "action" or even a "biographic" film.
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...what's with part one, part two?
Has it been sliced up for dvd or something?
Is it the 4 hour version the right one?
TIA
the director allows both to be shown with an intermission.
It really is a FAST four hours even though there are no Fx, car chases, kung-fu mock fights with endless injuries.
I'd recommend seeing them together for the continuity. I'm heading back for a second viewing.
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remain there by force must be removed by force.
But this isn't "Outside."
This is the film forum.
"Ché" is by far the best film of the recent past and is destined to become a classic.
Del Toro has set a benchmark in modern film acting that will not soon be surpassed or equalled.
Massacring prisonners....
Of course, I'd ask you for some link telling of these "murders." In war, if you capture spies, men out of uniform who attack you, or former soldiers of yours that deserted, execution is commonly practiced and condoned by all militaries. Now, guerilla forces face several unusual circumstances. They are tiny groups who themselves face summary execution.
If you are speaking of executions after the Cuban revolution was won, I'd ask you to study history. It is common to execute those who opposed revolutions. After we defeated the British, "Americans" executed many that had aided and fought for the British. They were considered traitors. Same with the French revolution? When the French captured Indo-Chinese or Algerians that opposed its colonialism and imperialism, did it not torture and summarily execute many?
But not for me.
There are filmed documents, how Che, your hero let execute even old men.
Again and for the last time: I am not for the " Algerie Francaise " But for The Algerie Algerienne.Like de Gaulle was...
... but what does that have to do with the movie?
"Journey to the End of the Night is the best book written in the last two thousand years"
Bukowski
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was probably a put off for most (IIRC, it was over four hours, with a good old-fashion intermission).
At the Magnolia theater (Dallas, TX), the ticket price was an unheard of 15.00, but that seemed reasonable to me, considering that two normal length movies could have been shown in its place.
I enjoyed the first half move than the second half, but this is logical considering the trajectory of the movie. I agree, del Toro was lost in the character . . . fine acting.
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