Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (Spanish: Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara (Spanish: Che Guevara) was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and leader of the Cuban guerrillas.
Guevara participated in Castro's "July 26 Movement" in Cuba in 1959, which overthrew the pro-American Batista dictatorship. After holding some key positions in Cuba's new government, Guevara left Cuba in 1965 and went on to instigate communist revolutions in other countries. First the Congo, then Bolivia. In Bolivia, he was arrested during a military operation planned by the CIA and killed by the Bolivian army on October 9, 1967. After his death, he became a hero of the Communist revolutionary movement in the Third World and a symbol of the leftist movement in the West.
When he was a student, Guevara often used vacations to travel around Latin America. During the summer vacation in January and February of 1950, he traveled to 12 provinces in northern Argentina, covering a distance of more than 4,000 kilometers. In 1951, at the suggestion of his friend the pharmacist Alberto Granado (Spanish: Alberto Granado), he decided to take a year off from school to travel around South America. Their transportation is a 1939 Norton motorcycle. They set off on December 29, 1951, and decided on a route: along the Andes, across South America, through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, to Venezuela. Their motorcycle broke down in the middle of the road. Guevara also volunteered for several months in a leper village in Peru.
During this trip, Guevara began to truly understand the poverty and suffering of Latin America, and his internationalist thoughts gradually took shape during this trip. He began to think that the independent countries in Latin America are actually one with a common culture and economy. The whole of interests, if the revolution requires international cooperation. Eight months after leaving home, in September 1952, Guevara flew back to Argentina, and the whole family went to the airport to greet him. In one of his diaries at this time, he wrote:
"The people who wrote these diaries died when they set foot on the soil of Argentina again. I am no longer me."
Guevara on this trip The diary written in the book was later published in a book, and in 2004 Hollywood filmed the movie "Motorcycle Diary".
So, today we can see this film that recreates the journey that completely changed Che Guevara's life.
The protagonist, Fother, is a 23-year-old leper specialist, an MD graduate student. Speaking of his chubby biologist friend, Granado, who hopes to have his 30th birthday and traverse Latin America in 4 months in a natural way, is restless, full of Dreams, and an unending love for the continent of Latin America.
When the dream came into reality, on January 4, 1952, they set off from their hometown, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The planned route is to start from Buenos Aires, via Patagonia, then Chile, and then travel 6000km along the northern foothills of the Andes to Machu Picchu, from there to Leprosy in San Baru on the Amazon River in Peru s home. The final destination is the Guajira Peninsula in Venezuela, the northernmost part of Latin America.
Under the thick clouds, the weeds looked like marigolds everywhere. The wide panorama made it hard for me to even find them and motorcycles. There are also snow-capped mountains in the distance, thick or thin fog, and frost covered the ground, just like paintings. All this, accompanied by a clean acoustic guitar, makes you wonder if you're watching a landscape film about the natural landscape of Latin America.
The constant off-axis shooting and the protagonists who flashed the camera quickly tell us that they have left the civilized society and gone far, and they are closer to the land.
Farther and farther behind are family, technology, and distractions. The galloping horses and the blurry-eyed cattle and sheep all indicate that they will experience a life different from the previous two decades.
That's a state of travel that people all yearn for. Always on the road, do not know where the end will be.
The future is so challenging because of the huge unknowable.
"I used to hear the sound of bare feet stepping on the boat, and I was lost because I missed too much. I didn't know whether to stay with her or continue the journey."
She also said that she would wait for him, but she didn't like him giving her the puppy , She hoped that he would not leave, be by her side forever, and live a stable life.
They frowned and kissed, and she was about to cry, but he still didn't stop for her.
So, 54 days after leaving her 2972km, Fother received her letter.
We do not know what was written in the letter, and we have no way of knowing. The director seems to have deliberately made the information brought by the letter obscure. During the same period, the broadcast sound of the current situation and the huge roar of some kind of mechanical activation were continuously broadcast. When the unique ladder-like cable car in Chile took Fother and Granado from the sunny heights into the hollow embedded in a red roof, the face wounded in love behind the iron window gradually disappeared in the darkness .
Love is extravagant and selfish, no matter when.
On the boat that was about to arrive in Chile, Fother said, "Look, when we're old and we don't like to travel anymore, we'll set up an outpatient clinic by this lake and give each patient the best possible treatment.
" Like Lu Xun before he gave up his career as a doctor, Fosser always believed that solving people's physical ailments was the most important thing he could do.
However, doctors can heal the sick, but they don't necessarily want people to get sick. Sitting by the window of the dying old woman, Fosser could do nothing but hold her hand.
"Mom, I know I can't help this poor woman. She can only live for a month at most. I can only try my best to make her live decently. In the dying eyes, there are helplessness, fear, despair, and hopelessness. There is a dying emptiness, as if her body would soon disappear into the great unknowable that surrounds us."
All are vulnerable in the face of death.
The picture seems to be suddenly filtered out of color.
In the middle of the film, those beautiful landscapes and scenery are gone, only barren gray and barren land. The director told the audience in his language that the plot point is coming, and you all wait for me.
Fother and Granado trekking in the Ataca desert after losing their motorcycle in LOS ANGELES, Chile. Until I met the same lonely farmer couple.
The couple were hunted by the police and had to leave their hometown because they were communists. The experience of going to the mine to find a job deeply touched these two young people who lived in a big city and enjoyed a superior life and a good education since childhood. They gave the couple blankets and sugar water to keep them warm physically, but couldn't address their pain at the source. They helped two of the tens of thousands of suffering people, but they were unable to help all the oppressed peasants in Latin America, even a little bit.
"Their eyes were full of gloom and sadness. They said that many of their friends had mysteriously disappeared and were probably thrown into the sea. It was the coldest night of my life, and meeting them made me feel good about it. This world has a deeper understanding, and suddenly it is unfamiliar to this world." In the center of the picture, the dim bonfire illuminated the body parts of the four of them with warm yellow light. The bodies that were not illuminated were shrouded in a huge terrifying darkness, noncommittal.
"When we left the mine, I felt that everything had changed, or we had changed."
He's changed not only to no longer trim, but also to grow a more sloppy beard. If Fosser didn't really begin to reflect on the injustice and ruthlessness of this society in the sight of the numb peasants who were about to go blind and their blank eyes, then it was not just his Eyes, and some firm belief in his heart.
Black and white segments in color films are often used to create symbolism. From here, the film begins to use black and white images to represent the different people from the bottom that they have met along the way when Fosser is lost in thought.
After reading 7 Comments on the State of Peru, "We are too thin without unity. Unite and hold tight." This was another important turning point in life.
The soundtrack is no longer mellow guitars, but more rhythmic drums and electro. Heart, just like this voice, is not calm.
Since Fosser and Granardo arrived in St. Baru, the tone has gradually become warmer.
The yellow Amazon River separates the two wards of leprosy and separates the hearts of the vulnerable. So at the end of the movie, Fosser threw off his clothes and jumped into that grim river, the Amazon that no one had swam in for years.
It was smooth at first, but from the turbulent water, Fosser began to gasp loudly, the familiar gasping sound of his asthma, which made everyone sweat for him. As they approached the shore, the sound of the double bass slowly replaced the sound of the same period.
In the early morning when Fosser left St. Baru, it was dark, lifeless, and foggy again.
On this journey, they have to face more than just asthma attacks, broken down motorcycles, no money, no place to sleep, and so on.
It wasn’t just the blankets and their only $15 that moved us to poor communist couples who were unfairly treated because of their faith, or to go up close and personal with lepers without gloves.
The camera shakes and shakes, there is very little sensational music, and the simple shots make people not feel that this is a film about a road trip, but more like a documentary documentary.
The camera stops at Granado standing in the setting sun, watching the crystal-clear eyes of the plane carrying Fosser disappear into the sky. The farther the camera is from the subject, the more neutral the audience's attitude will be. And the closer you get to a character, the stronger the emotional appeal. At the end of the film, on the same plane, the elderly Granado is still standing in the sunset, watching the plane go away. In the close-up of his eyes, there is nostalgia, reluctance, and sadness. In fact, we have no idea who or what is on this plane, but the plane seems to carry some kind of hope, flying to wherever it is needed.
This is a noble inner revolution.
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