Che: Part One - The Fellowship of the Cigar is a landmark piece of cinema, a historic breakthrough in human history itself. Steven Soderbergh employed a crack team of cutting edge physicists to find a means to make a 126 minute film feel twice as long. To be fair, it is very possible that I'm just too pedestrian to appreciate the movie. Also in the interest of fairness, it felt more like three hours, not four.
Benicio del Toro did do a very good job of portraying the iconic T-shirt design. Almost every scene he seems to exude a certain "could I be any more Che Guevara?" quality. I'm sure it was hard to stop passers by from taking his picture and putting it on posters, buttons and lunchboxes.
The main beef I have with the film is the one sided portrayal of Ernesto "Goes to Campo" Guevara. I was under the impression that unadulterated admiration for the man was unique to teenage patrons of Hot Topic and that a modern film would paint him with the "violent murderer" brush as well as the "inspirational revolutionary and champion of the people" one.
They don't even explore Che "I'm sick of giving him a nickname" G's reasons for becoming a revolutionary in the first place. Or maybe it's in the second half, Che: Part Two - Bolivian Boogaloo. Or maybe I fell asleep for that part. Whatever. He's an interesting character, I plan on going to the best bookstore in the world and getting something so I can hopefully get a better feel for the guy than what I've gleaned from wikipedia and the movie.
I guess that kind of turned into a movie review on accident, even though I believe that reviews are refuse. In conclusion, the hamburger with chili I ate during the movie was delicious.
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