Terrorism Back On the Big Screen

Richard B. Woodward wrote an interesting piece for The Wall Street Journal about the recent film biographies of noted and notorious 20th Century terrorists.

I truly liked Carlos and The Baader-Meinhof Complex. I was stationed in Europe while serving in the U.S. Navy in the mid-1970s and I vividly recall the incidents depicted in these films.

I didn't care much for Che.

I thought director Steven Soderbergh was too enamored with his subject, communist revolutionary Che Guevara.

Guevara, in my view, was not a tragic and romantic figure. He was a communist thug and murderer.

You can read the newspaper story via the below link:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703506904575592643948010182.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

You can also read my comments on Che via the below link:

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2009/12/che-part-one-and-che-part-two-films.html