By Tania Ketenjian

Academy Award winning director for the film Traffic and Academy Award nominee for his film Erin Brockovich, Steven Soderbergh’s new film, Che, is an epic about the revolutionary who freed Cuba from a dictatorship and failed at doing the same for Bolivia. The film tries to get past the image seen on t-shirts and posters to the not always glorious truth of the icon. Che is a film in two parts. Part One shows Che, played by Benicio del Toro, agreeing to partake in a revolution with Fidel Castro. Che Part Two takes us into the jungles of Bolivia where Che attempts to create a second revolution but fails and is killed in the end. The two parts are quite different from each other but they are united by one single, powerful element—that being a revolutionary is not about being a hero and being immortalized but it's about attempting to make serious change at great cost to your own life.