Che Part Two is better than Part One because despite the epic promise made in the last few moments of Part One & the opening graphics of this film, it is very focused on a particular time and place without the shackles of feeling like a Vulcan reenactment of historical events. There is more emotion and at one penultimate point, Soderbergh even uses the camera as a Guevera POV shot, which is very unusual for him and reveals that after trying to remain objective and removed from his subject, he finally gave in and felt a deep empathy for his subject, which has been largely missing in his recent films. He still uses the distant shots to reveal how things unfold and in showing daily life of a character in an epic environment (I wonder how Herzog would interpret Guevera), shows rather than tells us what Guevera believes. It works in this film and maybe because he didn’t have to be shackled to numerous definitive historical records to base this film on, he was able to use more creative license to build tension and reflect emotion. Still, I’m not completely sure what he was trying to communicate about Guevera or why he chose this particular person to focus on, but Soderbergh and filmmakers did seem to want to make a film that shows how back room rhetoric and action can be the same instead of a hypocritical divide, but I didn’t leave with an understanding as to why Guevera felt like armed conflict was the best way, just that it was and somehow after winning, everyone would get treated the same and have access to what they needed. Maybe I’m too post-modern to believe in that rhetoric and that armed conflict/human leadership will lead to such results, but I would have liked to know after over 4.5 hours on Guevera how he arrived at believing in guerilla warfare as the solution above all the other things that lead to it. Seems like a huge intellectual leap.