This is a typical road movie, and almost all road movies are about finding: if "Easy Rider" is about finding freedom on the road, "Grand Central Station" is about finding a home and oneself on the road, "The Endless Flower" " is about finding women's rights on the road, then "Motorcycle Diary" is a movie about finding dreams on the road.
The film is based on Ernesto Guevara's diary. In January 1952, Guevara and his friend Alberto Granardo rode on a Norton 500 and embarked on a "travel to seek and discover true South America" along the road. Plan to travel 8,000 miles in four months, the way is to go with the flow. Before departure, Guevara was like most of the young us: shy, timid, nervous, and confused, but after this "Don Quixote" youth sacrificial trip, he became determined and brave, from a boy. Become a real man, as Guevara wrote at the end of his diary: "The person who wrote this diary died the moment he set foot on Argentine soil. The person who organized and polished this diary was dead. That me has long ceased to be me, at least the me I am now, is no longer the me I used to be. Roaming South America has changed me far more than I have ever encountered.”
This is the meaning and function of travel. Many people like the feeling of being on the road is not simply to visit the scenery along the way, but more importantly to experience a different mood, and complete a mental journey in the changing images and stories along the way. transformation. The moment the Norton 500 hit the accelerator, Granado said: "Young Fosser and I are about to embark on a journey to the most remote places of the human spirit, where we will see new lands and hear new The hymn, and the new fruit." That's right, Guevara and his friend Granado's original purpose is the same as that of all travelers, just to go to some places that have not been before, to listen to some unheard languages, to taste some uneaten food. Of course, if possible, it's best to leave a little flirt wherever you go. When he left his girlfriend Cezina, Guevara still clinging to the fifteen dollars that he bought shorts for his lover, no matter how much Granado tried to deceive him, he would not give it. Along the way speeding wheels accompanied by a brisk and smooth guitar sound, reminiscent of Joel Hanson's "Traveling Light - Travel Light". However, as the journey progresses, the strings of the guitar are gradually tightened, and the music gradually becomes heavy and powerful. After all, this is not an ordinary mountain and water tour. Every journey is the crystallization of wisdom at the end. Slowly precipitation, when this precipitation reaches a certain level, the trajectory of fate will also undergo a huge change. After Guevara witnessed the injustice of society and the suffering of the lower classes, his growth trail began to turn gradually. Finally, he gave fifteen dollars to a couple of miners who were suffering. On one side, the idea of "revolution" appeared in Guevara's mind for the first time. From this tiny fifteen dollars, we can see that Guevara's outlook on life and values are beginning to change as the journey continues.
The transformation culminated in Guevara's 24th birthday. Despite his asthma, he swam alone across the icy river to the other side to celebrate his birthday with a quarantined leper. A plot in the leper isolation area is easy to think of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", but the difference is that Mike in "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest" paid the price of his life and failed to achieve his dream, while Guevara finally let him All the people cast a respectful look at him, from here it seems that the kind of revolutionary and great leader's temperament lurking in Guevara can already be vaguely seen.
Most of the film was shot with a handheld camera, many of the shots looked slightly shaken, and the director interspersed two black and white shots from time to time, so the whole film looked like a documentary style, which made the story more realistic. feel. In addition, the actor's performance is not contrived at all, whether it is Guevara's melancholy eyes or Granado's funny expressions and movements, they are all meticulously portrayed by the actors without any traces of carving. is a perfect fit.
No matter how bad a road movie is, it will still be worth watching, because if the plot is too bad, you can still make up for it in the changing scene inherent in the road movie, and "Motorcycle Diary" is not only the touching story itself and the profound character characterization, South The magnificent scenery unique to the Americas is a feast for the eyes: the majestic Peruvian mountains and rivers, the ancient city walls in the twilight, the mottled stone roads, the water-drenched lakes, and the wooden boats carrying nuns in white long coats leisurely rowing... The world There are only two things that can shock people's hearts, that is, nature and the life experience close to nature. When the picture freezes on the solemn mountains and mountains, and the subtitle reads "Peru, April 5, 1952, 7014 kilometers", the moment of How can I describe it with a simple word shock? Guevara changed from an ordinary boy to a real man, to a great leader and revolutionary. During this period, in addition to his experience of the lower-level society and life, the natural historical landscapes during the journey were also agile and beautiful or majestic. It must have played a role in fueling the flames in a certain sense.
The film spends most of the time shrouded in the cloudy sky of South America, which seems to illustrate that the entire nation, the entire continent, is also in a great oppression and suffering. It was not until the moment when Guevara boarded the plane and left at the end of the movie that the dark clouds dissipated, replaced by a bright red sunset, which was telling people: the prelude to the revolution has played, a new era, a new era of The era of Guevara's leadership is coming...
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