Posted on 01/23/2009 12:11:55 PM PST by Ericka81
What is a revolutionary? A man with ideas? A man with a gun? An inspirational leader? Judging from Che, Steven Soderbergh's four-hour biopic on the life of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevera, the answer is none of the above; instead, it's just a guy who talks your ear off about being a revolutionary. In fact, the impression you'd get from Che is that he hardly talks about anything else — including the guiding philosophy that drove him to revolution.
Che seems to be an attempt to understand the revolutionary mindset while ignoring revolutionary ideas. Sure, it's offhandedly mentioned that Che is a Marxist, but in Soderbergh's vision, his ideology hardly figures into the picture. Instead, it's the character and will of the revolutionary that animate Soderbergh's portrayal, as if somehow it's possible to separate Che's revolutionary pose from the Communism and Marxism to which he subscribed.
(Excerpt) Read more at culture11.com ...
How about a Tea Party Feb, 2009?
Send one to Obama, Your rep and your senator....
http://history.howstuffworks.com/revolutionary-war/boston-tea-party.htm/printable
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