Guevara's ideal is Neruda's sailor

Elinore 2022-03-22 09:01:52

I had high expectations for this film before watching it, but this film did not reflect the spirit of Guevara in our minds well, and it seems a bit suspected of keeping a running account.

One of Guevara's favorite poems It's Neruda's , there's a

line in it "There's nothing to tie us,

nothing to tie us together,

I like seafaring love,

kissing and leaving in a hurry.

I want Going,

I feel bad in my heart,

but I always feel bad in my heart"

My favorite last poem is "I want to go, I feel bad in my heart, but I always feel bad in my heart". Especially "I always feel bad in my heart" It seems to herald Guevara's fate. Even if he runs away to participate in the revolution, he still cannot escape the fate of "uncomfortable".

I think this poem can be used as a young Guevara to travel around Latin America on a motorcycle and thus embark on his own unique "revolution" The best annotation of the road. It would be great if the film could reflect this. Although revolution has become synonymous with radicalism and violence in this era, it cannot be completely denied its meaning. If tyranny has no desire for improvement at all , What else can there be other than revolution? How

is Guevara's yearning for the life of a seafarer related to revolution? I think it is a temperament that is sensitive and cannot tolerate numbness and injustice.

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The Motorcycle Diaries quotes

  • Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Even though we are too insignificant to be spokesmen for such a noble cause, we believe, and this journey has only confirmed this belief, that the division of American into unstable and illusory nations is a complete fiction. We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits. And so, in an attempt to free ourselves from narrow minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a United America.

  • Title Card: [Opening] "This isn't a tale about heroic feats. It's about two lives running parallel for a while, with common aspirations and similar dreams." Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, 1952