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story gist:
Ernesto(Gael Garcia Bernal) and friend/cousin (?) Rodrigo embark on a motorcycle journey that takes them across the continent of South America. The story is about documenting the events that shaped the radical mind of one of recent history's important revolutionaries, Che Guevara. Their journey as aspiring medical students takes them to a leper colony perched in the middle of an Amazon rainforest through Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Colombia. Interesting incidents give life to the experiences of Che Guevara as a student whose mind slowly takes in the reality of life and the social problems people are facing in the region. The story ends just as their work in the colony ends.
my perspective:
Moved me so much at some points, especially the scene where Che Guevara swims across the river to prove a point on his birthday. When some scenes really gets us into the mind of a future revolutionary, some really seemed ordinary. The story makes more sense if we think about what happened to our hero after this trip. How it moulded him? How he changed his way of thinking? How he felt that his people needed help.. etc.. Very well acted/directed and great cinematography. The movie does some justice to portray the early life of Che Guevara and does it well enough to use it as inspirational stuff. It makes young people curious to find more about him and to see if it was a very unjust way for him to die.
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