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All rights reserved.The Motorcycle Diaries (DVD 2004)
| Description In 1952, a young medical student and a biochemist from Argentina set off on a road trip across South America. As they straddled their beaten up motorcycle, the men talked in awed tones of the sights they were about to experience. The record of their trip may have disappeared into the ether if one of the riders departing on that fateful day hadn't been the future insurrectionary figurehead of the Cuban revolution, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (played here by Gael Garcia Bernal). The young Che's companion on the trip was his best friend, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), with their simple goals being to enjoy themselves, and meet some girls along the way. As the trip unfolds at the behest of their spluttering motorcycle, the boys discover more about themselves than they ever imagined possible. Ernesto clings tightly to his ideals throughout, and delights in the opportunity to put them into practice. His refusal to spend the $20 provided by his girlfriend, Chichina Ferreyra (Mia Maestro), constantly angers his travelling companion as the two succumb to pangs of hunger. Ernesto's charitable nature comes to the fore when he reveals that he gave the money to a pair of out-of-work illegal immigrants. The trip winds down as the friends offer their medical expertise to a leper colony in Peru, with the duo's youthful folly acquiescing to adulthood, and the dawning realization of where they should head in life. Based on the books THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (by Guevara) and TRAVELLING WITH CHE GUEVARA (by Granado), director Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION) pulls some highly accomplished performances from his two leads. The South American landscape is breathtakingly captured on camera, with Salles vividly reproducing a continent beleaguered by poverty and disease, but containing a population in possession of an unshakeable sense of optimism, as beautifully personified by Guevara and Granado.
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Reviews  TOP CLASS FILMReview created: 21/06/08 by:  LETS BARE IN MIND WE HAVE ALL BEEN TOLD ABOUT THIS MAN, AND WHAT A TYRANT HE WAS, AND THE CIA HAD HIM KILLED, BUT THIS FILM GIVES AN UNBIASED REPORT ON THE MAN AND HE WAS A TRULY CARING MAN, FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF ALL SOUTH AMERICAN PEOPLES, ESPECIALLY THE POOR, WHO WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE TO SHOW HIM KINDNESS ON HIS TRAVELS. THIS IS INDEED A BRILLIANT FILM, ANYONE WILL ENJOY THE FUN AND THE SERIOUS SIDES TO THIS FILM AND I RECOMMEND IT AS "A TOP FILM TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE" Review ID: 10000000007661242 Was this review helpful? Report this review The Motorcycle DiariesThis film is a film you will want to watch over and over again, the film is about two young men on a trip of discovery of their country surounding them and they discover about themselves. Its funny, moving and most of all an inspiration and credit to the human race, how one person can make a difference. Review ID: 10000000001792070 Was this review helpful? Report this review the motorcycle diariesReview created: 02/09/06 by: This film is a classic and I had seen the film last year and enjoyed the film so much wanted to buy it so I could watch it again. This film is a film you will want to watch over and over again, the film is about two young men on a trip of discovery of their country surounding them and they discover about themselves. Its funny, moving and most of all an inspiration and credit to the human race, how one person can make a difference. I loved it. buy, beg, borrow or steal but watch this movie, you won't be disappointed. Review ID: 10000000001703969 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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