Years later, when looking at the portrait of Che Guevara, can people think of his legendary experience of driving a motorcycle around the Americas with Granado?
"Red Robin Hood", "Communist Don Quixote", idealistic and rebellious warrior, stylish and steadfast revolutionary hero, martyr and mentor... This beret-headed, full-bearded, lean man A pair of resolute and melancholy eyes staring into the distance on the face, appearing for decades on the T-shirts of rockers, the flags of leftist radical youth, the slogans on the streets, the Che Guevara on the Zippo lighter! What makes Guevara On the road of revolution, why did the young Guevara travel around Latin America by motorcycle? "Motorcycle Diary" tells the most authentic and objective perspective of Guevara's passionate years when he traveled around South America at the age of 23.
At the beginning of the film, Ernesto Guevara is quoted as saying: "This is not a story of heroism, but a time when a pair of close friends and two living beings shared a life, breathing and dreaming together. In four months, from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Caracas, Venezuela, he and his friend Granado traveled across the 12,425-kilometer South American continent to meet someone who was only in books. Learn about the Latin American world.
The young Guevara was serious and steady, a little dull. The 23-year-old is just an ordinary medical student who suffers from asthma while exercising. Just graduated, he hugged his family and said goodbye to his family, and set foot on the road to explore America for the first time in his life. On the way he would write to his mother: "Dear mother, Buenos Aires is gone, and so is the bad life, school, exams, and hypnotizing academic speeches..." He will also use a diary to record the real American continent he saw during his travels.
Alberto, his traveling companion, was cheerful and humorous, liked to drink and like women. Two unruly souls set off on a journey to the most remote places in the human spirit.
The road in the shot is unobstructed, the road ahead is long, and a motorcycle is driving two unruly souls into the distance. For Guevara, who is young and longs for freedom and ideals, the future has infinite possibilities.
The camera switches to focus on what the two travelers saw along the way. The journey is full of surprises and surprises, as well as reflections and changes. The words and deeds of the two young people from the perspective of the film are more real, and the story of the two people's travel is told from the perspective of objective and storytelling.
In this epic motorcycle trip, the experiences along the way also gradually changed our young Guevara.
In front of a mine in Chile, they meet a communist couple who have nothing and leave their homes, their land is taken over by landlords and their friends are thrown into the sea by the secret police - this is called progress. Our Guevara gave the couple his only $15. Leaving the mine, the reality is oppressed, and Guevara is gradually changing.
Contact with a variety of people from the bottom makes a real difference between the two comrades. Guevara and Granado, who grew up in the upper class of Argentina, saw the tragic life of the Inca aborigines in Cusco. When taking a boat on the Amazon River, the rich ride on exquisite and luxurious yachts, enjoy all-day feasts, and dance mambo tango, while the poor can only squeeze into small grass boats dragged by the big boat. Full of numbness, loneliness and confusion.
They came to a leprosy village on the banks of the Amazon, separated by a river between normal people and sick people. Guevara worked with the patients, ate together, had fun together, crossed the river to enjoy a real birthday party, and brought hope to the desperate patients.
The journey has finally come to an end. In Caracas, Venezuela, Guevara parted with his close friend Granado. Life, society, civilization, advanced and backward, suffering and happiness... These questions keep lingering in Guevara's mind. After this, Guevara continued his legendary revolutionary journey, until he later led the Cuban revolution and became a fascinated idol in the minds of a generation of young people.
Regarding Che Guevara, every time I talk about this revolutionary, how many stories are deified and how many romantic feelings are poured out. And the most commendable thing about the film is that it outlines a stable, dull, vivid and real Guevara, not mixed with love and hate, not mixed with myths and romance, not mixed with prejudice, and not slandered by his failures after becoming famous. years of youth. As said at the beginning and end of the film: "This is not a heroic deed, it is just two vivid lives, meeting somewhere in the long river of time, sharing a story of ideals and pursuits. Our vision is too narrow and extreme. Is it too hasty? Are our conclusions too rigid? Maybe yes. But this casual trip to the Americas has brought me more than I imagined. At least, I am not the same person I used to be. "
In addition to the story, the film's shots are concise and capable, the vast country road is endless, the desolate American continent, the numb and blank eyes of the people at the bottom, and the passion of the two best friends walking the world with swords, all of which are well portrayed. A slightly desolate guitar playing song is used as the background music, which is simple, elegant, and feels more real.
The road film carries the blood and dreams of a generation of young people. Another road film from director Walter Salles, On the Road, focuses on the debauched, decadent hippie culture. In today's dejected and decadent youth, and the Internet is too hostile, Guevara's unruly life and idealism, a communist who is willing to redeem the people at the bottom and lead Latin America to the horizon, can't it bring salvation to us too? ?
Max
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