Che, the film

[Lawrence Bryan]

I saw the film Thursday night. On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd give it a 4.

It was shot in both color and black and white, the latter with  
snippets of Che's visit to NY and his appearance at the UN. Since  for  
some really ridiculous reason they used a shaky hand held camera  
(Death to Rules 2 and 3 of the Dogme Brethern, IMO) with the usual  
extreme closeups in the B&W New York scenes, I was forced to decide  
wether to risk vomiting in the theatre and watch the screen or close  
my eyes and listen to the Spanish dialog which I couldn't understand.  
I tried compromising by using my hand to blank out all but the  
subtitles at the bottom. That allowed the nausea to be lessened below  
the barfing stage, leaving me with only a vague feeling of discomfort  
for the rest of the film, over four hours. Bleh.

See Che run through the jungle from left to right.
See Che run through the jungle from right to left.
See Che shoot people.
See Che smoking a huge cigar. (Especial one B&W close up where the  
cigar was two thirds of the screen)
See Che get assassinated after getting captured.

Really too bad as I have a great deal of respect for what I know of  
the man.

Lawrence