25th Feb 2009
I went to see Che part2 alone since Rebecca could not make it and I didn't want to miss the second part of the movie. The venue was in a cinema called "Screen on the green" in Islington Angel very close to where I live. It usually is screening independent movies more than commercial ones. I was sad when the movie finished, espeically for a person like me who grew up in the society and have been influenced by the mainstream capitalism and indifferent to the proletariat of other countries in the world who were the losers from the capitalism and suffering from the hardship. As fas as I have known so far, Che Guevara who grew up in an Argentian middle-class family realised how Capitalism exerted the power of economic colonisation in this continent and was supported by the unawareness and inability of the ruling class of Latin America. It led to the situation where the ordinary people were living in poor heathy condition, lacking proper education, and were exploited by the unfair trade...etc. Hence, he joined the cuban revolution with Fidel Castro and successfully overturn the government in the end. Even though this victory was real, he was not obsessed with the magic of power and continually contributed himself to the spread of the seed of revolution to other places such as Congo and Bolivia. In the Che Part 2, it was filmed about the revolution of a short one year in Bolivia, which was describing how the guerrilla was assembled, trained, betraied, caught, and of course how Guevara was executed. The role of CIA-USA was heavily and directly involved in how they supported Bolivian military groups to destroy this revolutionary action initiated by Che with the overwhelmingly amount of troops and resource. I was speachless to the facts that the US government got involved actively for preventing the possibility of second Cuban revolution, the ignorance and betrayal by the Bolivian peasants and the extremely difficult situation where the guerrilla was doomed to failure. Probably the current global economic crisis would bring back the issue about the doom of capitalism. In retrospect, I could not predict or provide any certain answer to it. From my own research, I start to understand the distribution and locations of economic activities, the development and operation of capitalism, and the division of labours in global scales. But, certainly I think it is necessary for me also, from now on, to be more conscious of different aspects of impacts by captialism, e.g. the social and politial aspects.
前天自己一個人跑去看了Che Part2，就在我住的附近的一家Screen on the green 戲院，這家戲院只有一間放映室，規模比現在很多倫敦的戲院都還大，但是主要放映一些議題性的電影。 看完之後感觸很深，尤其對於我這位從小就是在台灣主流資本主義思潮教育薰陶之下長大的人，從來沒有機會去接觸或也不從體會或想去了解到世界上其他地方的一些社會底層，是如何被資本主義所壓榨而生活困難。對於Che Guevara 這位阿根廷籍人，看清美國資本主義對於拉丁美洲的經濟殖民:對於地方老百姓缺乏妥善教育、健康醫療等生活的貧困之漠視及經濟生產之壓榨與不公，進而協助卡斯楚於古巴之遊擊革命，成功後不戀棧權位，繼續協助剛果(Congo)及玻利維亞(Bolivia)進行革命,Che Part2 主要是描述在 Bolivia 期間短短一年之內的情況到最後被處決。當中，美國 CIA 協助 Bolivia 軍方提供大量軍力及資源，最後Che在資源中斷，軍隊圍困之下，在 Bolivia 被捕及處決。 感觸是：美國無法容忍拉丁美洲再出現第二個古巴而介入；玻利維亞農民的無知與背叛；在大環境不利還得以小敵眾的無力可施。 或許2008年第四季開始帶來的全球金融風暴，讓當初一批認為資本主義會滅亡的學者，又回到當年學術熱潮，炒熱議題。我想我也還不能做神麼預言，因為我也才剛踏進這個領域，從自己的研究了解經濟活動的理論與分布，資本主義的運作過程，以全球的尺度勞力如何被分工....等，不過，將來我想我會更有意識的去了解資本主義對各層面之影響，包括社會及政治。
