Soderbergh Q & A: Is Che a Murderer? A Revolutionary?

During a Q & A at the Ziegfeld Theater on Friday night in Manhattan, "Che" director Steven Soderbergh talks with moviegoers about the film and stirs a vocal debate about the movie and Che Guevara.

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[Kagemusha08]

@Fredde1987karlsson What kind of logic is this? So because my government has and still do commit terrible acts my opinion is worthless? I think Che was a ruthless human being in the same way I think Nixon or Cheney were a ruthless human being. All did terrible acts regardless of their political ideologies. Using the "WELL YOUR AMERICAN" counter is not a valid argument and its down right ignorant. It would be the same as accusing all Germans of being Nazis half a century ago.

[IneptTroopr]

Gotta love how people call Che a mass murderer and terrorist (he was both of these things, but also much more), are amongst the same people to defend the necessity of firebombing and nuking cities off the face of the Earth by the US in WWII. They rail against one person who used "the end justifies the means" mentality, but whitewash another. Were the methods used by Che justifiable? I'm not sure, but Americans need to seriously step out of their nationalism and view the world differently.

[francovaldes]

@Kagemusha08 I am cuban, i have been to Bolivia where he died and I have been at his tomb in Santa Clara. Right or wrong, Che dies doing what he believed in. Cheney or Nixon CANT be compared to him. Did any of them went themselves to risk their neck anywhere?

Right or wrong, Ernesto backed his ideals with actions and paid the price. He could have stayed in Cuba like all the others and lived a great life as another Revolution god.

[cooltoye]

@IneptTroopr

are you really comparing bombing a Japan in WWII, with Che killing his own people without trial?

[consiceDJ]

@ giantrobotzodd, if che was a murderder, wat do u call the USA who killed over 20,000 people over nine years for no reason in iraq using tax money from the people. Che had a real reason, USA had a false reason. CHE IS A FREEDOM FIGHTER!!

[ATXGooner]

@alanya1996 I'm sorry, but this question is as rhetorical as it is ignorant. Go and actually READ about Che Guevara's exploits in Congo, and then read his opinion on the Congolese after it was over.

[jimmy59ca2001]

every government has blood on their hands

[GiantRobotZodd]

Che was a mass murderer i don't see how anyone can look up to him

[alanya1996]

che was not a racist. if he was, why would he try to do a revolution in congo?

[dickhalloran]

The guy at the end has a good point, the US has killed millions of innocent people including children, in Iraq and no one really cares. Yet Che is a monster. Remember tho with this film, it is presenting a revolution, about the sorts of people who make change in this world, ruthless violence, might is right. There are more violent warlords than Gandhis out there, including Che and our gov.

[Acroix707]

@4Barbudos

Hitler did a lot of "good" for Germany? Does that make it for the millions that suffered because of him?

[AmericanBadass44]

*Che Guevara would've took one look at Nelson Mandela and hated him because he was black.

*Who the fuck is Jean Paul Satre?

*A Leper colony you say? OH WOW! MY, MY, MY!

*He replaced one dictatorship with another. Improvement? No