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The Return Of The Motorpsycho Diaries
As "Dirty Harry" of Libertas writes, "Expect a lot of this": Variety’s Todd McCarthy makes a pre-emptive move (I thought liberals didn’t believe in that?) against conservatives in his pan of Steven Soderbergh’s attempt to Lawrence-of-Arabia the mass-murderer Che Guevera:"Hannah Arendt had it right", Pat Moynihan once told an interviewer. "She said one of the great advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive."…and presents American and Latin American authorities so exclusively as cardboard mouthpieces of imperialism and abusive dictatorships, respectively — that some conservative political commentators might work themselves into a lather over it.You see, any rise of indignation over a $60 million, five-hour attempt to further t-shirtify a sworn enemy of the United States responsible for the murder of at least 600 innocent people (that we know of) is purely knee-jerk lathering on our part. Oh, and we should also avoid any lather over the fact that Che’s psychotic crimes failed to find a few minutes in a 300-plus minute film:This structure very conveniently elides the period wherein Che, as effective co-head of Castro’s Cuban government, presided over mass executions, the persecution of homosexuals, the ruination of the island’s economy, the ill-fated alliance with the Soviet Union, and so on.Sadly, I’ve yet to read any review, good or bad, that registers any frustration whatsoever over Soderbergh’s decision to skip the murderous parts of Che’s life. Power Line looked at Hollywood's 2004 attempt to whitewash Che (Hollywood seems to alternate each year between films inflating the peccadilloes of the blacklist with films whitewashing the real horrors of Che and Castro) in a post titled the "Motorpsycho Diaries".
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