An eight-month trip in 1952, Ernesto "Che" Guevara traveled from Argentina to Chile, Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, full of youthful adventures, passionate poetry (Neruda!) and anti-authoritarian idealism. Part of self-discovery, part of new discoveries about the world around him, finally guided him to the cause of revolution. So this extraordinary journey can be called "the Long March of Comrade Guevara" - if the losers can rewrite history.
Watching the movie, re-reading Latin America - The Severed Vessel by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, behind the history written by the victors, the truth is forgotten. History becomes a legend, or, a legend.
The Severed Vessel in Latin America rips through the lies of the victors and shatters a whitewashed history. The awakening of the insulted and victimized always begins with seeing the truth. Closing your eyes and kneeling on your knees is just a form of inertia for a single slave, but for a nation, giving up its interpretation of history is undoubtedly a kind of self-destruction. As Galeano said: "History has always been a cruel teacher to us. via Ding Guoqiang
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