"Personal Che" --- (trailer)

[LiberaCHE]

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http://www.personalche.com/

[politics student]

I honestly don't know if thats worth watching.

It looks like hes got a few screwed up followers (hes like hitler or His soul was.... )

A great man he was, I would prefer to watch a documentary on him rather than how his face has been used by many groups.

Still I dunno if its worth watching hard to tell from trailer. :confused:

[RedAnarchist]

It looks ok from the trailer, although there's a few wierdos who seem to think Che was either Hitler or a saint.

[LiberaCHE]

how his face has been used by many groups.


"His image has been appropriated for political, economic, and even spiritual purposes. He is the symbol of communist destiny, and yet also beloved of anticommunist rebels; his face is used to sell beer and skis, yet an English church group recently issued posters of Jesus Christ himself recast as Che. The affluent youth of Europe and North America have resurrected Che as an easy emblem of meaningless and unthreatening rebellion, a queer blending of educated violence and disheveled nobility, like Gandhi with a gun or John Lennon singing 'Give Peace a Chance.'”


~ Patrick Symmes,
Author of Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend

[politics student]

It looks ok from the trailer, although there's a few wierdos who seem to think Che was either Hitler or a saint.

But the question is this worth watching? I may give it a try.

I like the fact he was a terrorist in the USA for killing 300 state torturers at the same time the USA was bombing some country (I struggle to remember which one as they seem to do it so often)

[politics student]

"His image has been appropriated for political, economic, and even spiritual purposes. He is the symbol of communist destiny, and yet also beloved of anticommunist rebels; his face is used to sell beer and skis, yet an English church group recently issued posters of Jesus Christ himself recast as Che. The affluent youth of Europe and North America have resurrected Che as an easy emblem of meaningless and unthreatening rebellion, a queer blending of educated violence and disheveled nobility, like Gandhi with a gun or John Lennon singing 'Give Peace a Chance.'”

~ Patrick Symmes,
Author of Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend





Ok you just talked me round.

I will watch it.

:che:
I have great respect for the man and I hate the way he has been used everywhere, so I will watch it but I fear my blood pressure will go sky high. lol

[LiberaCHE]

Another video preview of the film ... (embedding disabled however)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmNgJLQoXjU



(it looks like they also interview the major Che Biographers and journalists as well)

[Led Zeppelin]

Seems like a stupid documentary.

Go ask some weird people like nazis who wear Che shirts why they wear it, woooo, real original.

[LiberaCHE]

Go ask some weird people like nazis who wear Che shirts why they wear it, woooo, real original.
That's actually what you got from the trailer ? :confused:

I see it as a look at the various ways that people around the world reinterpret Che's message and iconic visage and re-create him in their own image (that many times operates independent of the man himself).

He has evolved into a unique worldwide emblem for an array of causes, representing a complex mesh of sometimes conflicting narratives .... an archetype, capable of endless visual regeneration which can keep accruing new application without relinquishing its 'essence'.

That is what I believe this movie is documenting.

[rocker935]

That's actually what you got from the trailer ? :confused:

I see it as a look at the various ways that people around the world reinterpret Che's message and iconic visage and re-create him in their own image (that many times operates independent of the man himself).

He has evolved into a unique worldwide emblem for an array of causes, representing a complex mesh of sometimes conflicting narratives .... an archetype, capable of endless visual regeneration which can keep accruing new application without relinquishing its 'essence'.

That is what I believe this movie is documenting.


I agree, and I have NEVER heard of nazis wearing Che shirts. I don't understand it. someone care to explain it to me? Like, che was Latino, not white. wtf?