An awakening...
Added 2/9/2010
"Motorcycle Diaries" (2004) is a Spanish film directed by Walter Salles that is based on Ernesto "Che" Guevara's book of the same name. This biopic follows the journey of the 23 year old Argentine, Guevara (Gael Garcia), and his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) around South America on their 8,000 kilometer plus travels. A semester before Guevara completed his medical degree he decided to take this journey traveling across the Andes to the coast of Chile, then across the Atacama Desert, into the Peruvian Amazon visiting Machu Picchu on the way, and eventually landing at the San Pablo leper colony in Peru. Along the way he learns about the injustices of the impoverished indigenous peasantry and about the Latin American identity. This is a beautiful and moving picture with Guevara awakened to the world beyond Argentina.
This DVD comes with a number of special features including interviews with Alberto Granado, Gael Garcia, and composer Gustavo Santaollalla, as well as the making of The Motorcycle Diaries. The film has an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and is in 5.1 Dolby Digital with English subtitles with Spanish or French languages.
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10 best films of all times
Added 2/4/2010
this is an amazing film about the younger che guevara. i will always appreciate the acting and storyline because it gives us a chance to see how che was before he became a cuban revolutionist!
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Oustanding and totally realistic portrayal of a compassionate hero on the same level as Ghandi.
Added 2/4/2010
I thought this was a beautiful film. The great actor, director, and deep thinker Robert Redford really did an outstanding job of realistically portraying South America in the 1950s and telling the story of Che, the great humanitarian who now adornes so many T-Shirts. I thought the best part of the film was the scene at La Cabaña prison in which Che presided over the executions of over 500 political prisoners, including children. It was such an act of heroic compassion on his part because he was able to rid the world of so many vile, contemptable capitalists in such a short period of time. I can see now why so many people like and admire Che and bear his image on their T-shirts. Well done, Robert Redford. "Tengo una remera del Che y no sé por qué."
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A 20th Century Iconic Figure In The Making
Added 1/28/2010
I enjoyed this wonderful movie on many, many levels.
Che Guevara once said that "a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love". Although I work in the "capitalistic" financial services sector and am a few years shy of 60, I was, and continue to be, a great admirer of Che Guevara.
This movie captures a 10,000 km journey throughout South America that a young, footloose 23 year old Ernesto "Che" Guevara embarked on with his good friend, Alberto Granada, in 1952. On countless occasions, the film provides the viewer with some breathtaking images of South America as seen through the eyes of a couple of guys on the back of a motorcycle - "The Mighty One". My god - what a beautiful continent.
Along the way, a very subtle change takes place within Che. The Che depicted in this film give us a view of a young man, calm and shy, a bad dancer, asthmatic, but above all close to his fellow man and sensitive to the injustices that he discovers along the roads. In one poignant moment, Ernesto tells his mother that he spent one cold night next to a young destitute couple, but that this night brought him closer to the human race. Moreover, he offers them the 15 dollars that his girlfriend had entrusted to him to buy a bathing suit. At Machu Pichu, a young Che wonders how a revolution could happen without guns. He wonders how the local Indians could be driven off the lands that they faithfully worked. This beuatifully crafted film gives the viewer a glimpse into the mind of the young Che's political and philosophical awakening as he comes into direct contact with the generous, friendly working-class men and women whom he would later champion as a communist revolutionary.
But above all, I found the closing shot of a now-old Alberto Granada watching a plane depart particularily poignant. He was a delightful and personable friend to Ernesto and loyal to a fault. I'm not at all surprised that Commandante Che Guevara reached out to him following the successful overthrow of Batista during the Cuban revolution and a half a century later, Granada successfully founded a medical clinic to treat his adopted countryjmen in Cuba.
As a Canadian, perhaps we have a less myopic view of Che Guevara/ Cuba. We don't necessarily see him only through a narrow prism as some "blood thirsty marxist revolutionary".
"After Guevara's death, Jean-Paul Sartre would declare him to be "not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age" and the "era's most perfect man" . Sartre would also compliment Che Guevara by professing that "he lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel"
This film gives us a glimpse of the man that Sartre talked about.
Regardless of your political views, this is a wonderful film that I would highly recommend.
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CRUEL MOVIE
Added 1/25/2010
TRULY A CRUEL FILM FOR THOSE THAT LIVED AND DIED AT THE HANDS OF THIS MURDERER CALLED che
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An awakening...
Added 2/9/2010
"Motorcycle Diaries" (2004) is a Spanish film directed by Walter Salles that is based on Ernesto "Che" Guevara's book of the same name. This biopic follows the journey of the 23 year old Argentine, Guevara (Gael Garcia), and his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) around South America on their 8,000 kilometer plus travels. A semester before Guevara completed his medical degree he decided to take this journey traveling across the Andes to the coast of Chile, then across the Atacama Desert, into the Peruvian Amazon visiting Machu Picchu on the way, and eventually landing at the San Pablo leper colony in Peru. Along the way he learns about the injustices of the impoverished indigenous peasantry and about the Latin American identity. This is a beautiful and moving picture with Guevara awakened to the world beyond Argentina.
This DVD comes with a number of special features including interviews with Alberto Granado, Gael Garcia, and composer Gustavo Santaollalla, as well as the making of The Motorcycle Diaries. The film has an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and is in 5.1 Dolby Digital with English subtitles with Spanish or French languages.
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10 best films of all times
Added 2/4/2010
this is an amazing film about the younger che guevara. i will always appreciate the acting and storyline because it gives us a chance to see how che was before he became a cuban revolutionist!
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Oustanding and totally realistic portrayal of a compassionate hero on the same level as Ghandi.
Added 2/4/2010
I thought this was a beautiful film. The great actor, director, and deep thinker Robert Redford really did an outstanding job of realistically portraying South America in the 1950s and telling the story of Che, the great humanitarian who now adornes so many T-Shirts. I thought the best part of the film was the scene at La Cabaña prison in which Che presided over the executions of over 500 political prisoners, including children. It was such an act of heroic compassion on his part because he was able to rid the world of so many vile, contemptable capitalists in such a short period of time. I can see now why so many people like and admire Che and bear his image on their T-shirts. Well done, Robert Redford. "Tengo una remera del Che y no sé por qué."
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