So the Cannes film festival is officially over and the awards are in.
The shock news of the day is the Sean Penn lead jury, lauded a film about a fear mongering communist terrorist, Che Guevara and gave the best actor award to Benicio del Toro for the turn as Che in Steven Soderbergh’s 4 FUCKING hour long biopic about Che Guevara cleverly titled Che Guevara.
Benicio had this to say to E!
“I’d like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara, as well as to Soderbergh, who got up every day, forced me to this,” Del Toro said during the ceremony. “He was there pushing it, and he pushed all of us.”
Wonderful. 4 fucking hours though, Steve? Your last 10 or so movies have eaten monkey cock. In what world do you think you have what it takes to pull off a 4 hour marathon picture?
I’ve also read, and heard from people who’ve seen it that it’s basically a 4 hour love letter that glosses over the man’s considerable short comings and kinda skips the part about his involvement in bringing Cuba from a poor nation to a piss poor nation.
Basically, the film is the version of the man that the millions of Euro trash types know from the T-shirts they snapped up en masse 10 years ago or so ‘just cuz’; don’t laugh, I had at least 10 friends from there who did that very same thing. Most tossed ‘em out once they read a bit more.
But really, what’s not to like about a guy who is responsible for the summary executions of thousands who found themselves no longer willing to die for his ‘revolutionary’ cause. Of course, I like that he is responsible for opening the door to Russia to plant nukes in Cuba to aim at the US and every other nation in the Americas that wasn’t communist. I guess I’m overreacting.
OK I’ll end the rant now since that shit is boring. Bring on the boobies!
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