Last Saturday night I watched the musical Evita for the 2nd time ever featuring Madonna as Eva Peron, Jonathan Pryce as Juan Peron and Antonio Banderas a the narrator Che Guevara.
It's got great music (some weirdly-placed rock too) and a neat history. The actors do a great job. I find it interesting as it's an Anglo-interpretation of an extremely influential time in Argentine politics. I remember the first time I saw it thinking: love or hate the Perons, they changed the course of history in Argentina and it's fascinating and I found Banderas' Che trying to let Eva know at the end of the film she had a chance to make changes for good and ran out of time and didn't take advantage as she was concerned about herself. Not sure if that's the moral of Eva's life but I've found passionate lovers of Eva all over Argentina, even if they are not part of the Peronista political party. (disclosure: my future in-laws are strong Personists so I don't know how many controversial comments I will make about them in the future, haha; although in all seriousness, I will try and state the facts, results, causes with less focus on the controversy or the politics to create a more truthful understanding of the country that is Argentina).
Anyway, that's it for now, I'll add another post about the film since it's full of stuff and I like it although it just sort of ends with Eva's death with little resolution...but I guess that's how Eva's life ended as well.
Here's an opening song that's a good summary of lots of the film and the sorrow at Eva's death. Thank you Senor Banderas. Enjoy.
It's got great music (some weirdly-placed rock too) and a neat history. The actors do a great job. I find it interesting as it's an Anglo-interpretation of an extremely influential time in Argentine politics. I remember the first time I saw it thinking: love or hate the Perons, they changed the course of history in Argentina and it's fascinating and I found Banderas' Che trying to let Eva know at the end of the film she had a chance to make changes for good and ran out of time and didn't take advantage as she was concerned about herself. Not sure if that's the moral of Eva's life but I've found passionate lovers of Eva all over Argentina, even if they are not part of the Peronista political party. (disclosure: my future in-laws are strong Personists so I don't know how many controversial comments I will make about them in the future, haha; although in all seriousness, I will try and state the facts, results, causes with less focus on the controversy or the politics to create a more truthful understanding of the country that is Argentina).
Anyway, that's it for now, I'll add another post about the film since it's full of stuff and I like it although it just sort of ends with Eva's death with little resolution...but I guess that's how Eva's life ended as well.
Here's an opening song that's a good summary of lots of the film and the sorrow at Eva's death. Thank you Senor Banderas. Enjoy.
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