From Cuba to Godwin on 42 Altariaan Dollars a Day
On the IMDB boards, Beat_Nik posts s/h/it's opinion of people wearing Che Guevara t-shirts.
I am deeply pained and troubled when I see people proudly wearing Che t-shirts. I react to it the same way I would if I were to see someone wearing a Hitler t-shirt. The differences are few for me, as I think they should be for anyone living freely in a democracy. I despise totalitarianism in all its forms and as well-made and well-acted as this film was, I am also capable of seeing how entirely one-sided and propagandistic it was. I find it hard to believe that a couple years before Motorcycle Diaries was praised at Sundance, Before Night Falls was as well. We've seen what he did for people with leprecy in Peru, but I wonder what Che would have done to Reinaldo Arenas had he been given the opportunity. So long as writers like Arenas have suffered and countinue to suffer, so long as Cuba struggles under the weight of Che's legacy, I dont see how anyone enjoying freedom in a democracy can wear Che shirts in good faith.
Highlights include:
MarkMcAlonan: "But you don't think his gesture of giving this special money away to communists was meaningful?"
Badi-3: "Your arguments remind me to the 'Alexander' forum, where many people complained the movie was gay propaganda."
Kruger97: "If you had it your way, the entire film would be about how much of an evil, mass murdering rapist serial killer he (supposedly, according to a few exiles from Cuba) was. If we had that, we would have a perfect example of propaganda. It is as simple as that. Also, to hear some people compare Che Guevara to Hitler and Pol Pot is laughable. You anti communists really need to read more books written by people other than Tom Clancy."
Rvinall-1: "It was only stupid and IDIOTIC U.S. postwar policy that created a "red scare" and created the Cold War. The Americans started the Cold War. Rather than accept a legitimate government and normalize relations, we had the ridiculous "containment" theory.
This isn't the 1940s: communists aren't all the butchers you think."
Anthos: "So he has socialist leanings!!! OH MY GOD!!! Terrible! Unforgiving! Sinful! Are people allowed to have socialist leanings??? Where has this world come to??? Please God, punish all socialists/communists of this world and just leave on earth people with high morales that will take care of the well being OF ALL PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, and not just their interests...BURN THEM I SAY!!!"
It quickly descends into that hallowed realm of tl;dr, but the fapping could power a small city for a week!