Saturday, October 9, 2004
Here's a new link to another not-so-admiring review of The Motorcycle Diaries - the story of a young Che Guevara's travels across the South American landscape [For the other, see this piece by Paul Berman in Slate.]. You can learn quite abit about the figure naive idealists splash on dorm-room walls by reading these reviews. (via Common Sense & Wonder)
The real Che by Anthony Daniels:
...The latest and propagandistically most powerful product of the Guevara cult is a film of Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries by the Brazilian director Walter Salles. It relies for its effect upon the fact that audiences will all know a minimum about Guevara: for example, that he was a social revolutionary who died in the jungles of Bolivia, and never made a penny for himself. But they will otherwise know little of his actual opinions or actions, and will not have read his tedious and inflexibly dogmatic speeches and writings. It is as if someone were to make a film about Adolf Hitler by portraying him as a vegetarian who loved animals and was against unemployment. This would be true, but again would be rather beside the point...
