Comments on: CHE: A Generational Divide?

By: The measure of a man « pentimento

The measure of a man « pentimento — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:04:27 +0000

[...] one likely to perplex audiences and divide critics (on generational lines, as Karina Longworth intriguingly noted). It also suggests that there may be no subject on Earth that he won’t tackle like an [...]

By: Yodog

Yodog — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:14:38 +0000

Please…Che murdered people. His diaries can’t change that. Film or film critics can’t change that either.

By: camila

camila — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:13:44 +0000

El Che es argentino y estamos muy orgullosos de ello

abajo el imperialismo yanqui!!!!!!!!!!

patria socialista o barbarie capitalista

yanquis imperialistas

By: ThePlaylist

ThePlaylist — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:27:31 +0000

I loved it. I would assume I’m consider new guard. Manola Darghis disliked it. Is she mid-guard?

I loathed Southland Tales and stand behind that.

By: David Fear

David Fear — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:19:32 +0000

So where would this generational divide begin and end? Reason I ask is, I happen to like the film, albeit with reservations, and agree with a lot of what these “old-guard” critics are singling out re: its strengths, notions of process, points of interests despite the disengagement factor, etc. My colleague here at the magazine is less than impressed with it, for a lot of the same reasons the “younger” critics are citing. We’re both in our late 30s…and while no one is asking us to pledge allegiance to either camp here, I’m not sure the pro-con Che issue can be boiled down to an age issue.

By: c mason wells

c mason wells — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:46:06 +0000

There was a similar divide last year over SOUTHLAND TALES. That film’s biggest champions were the old guard — Hoberman, Taubin, Kent Jones — while the ostensible target demographic largely (and incorrectly) ignored the film.

By: 10/10 Oscarweb Round-up

10/10 Oscarweb Round-up — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:04:49 +0000

[...] • Karina Longworth ponders the generational divide on “Che.” [Spout Blog] [...]

By: Mr. Milich

Mr. Milich — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:20:07 +0000

I didn’t mind the lack of emotional engagement. I think, if anything, the film’s approach took what’s become mythic and chopped it off at the ankles — brought it back down to Earth. It made Che, and the other characters, small, as all people are in the scheme of things. They were just a bunch of ragtag longhairs running around in the woods with guns, projecting a romanticized ideal of revolution. Their ideas or images create larger than life perceptions, but they are small. It’s like when Jefferson demanded that any statues of him be life-size and not overblown, so as to remind people that he was just a man. (Of course, once he died, the life-size statues were replaced…)

My feeling about Che is simple: I liked it while I was watching it. But I didn’t feel the need to watch it again.