MOTORCYCLE DIARIES

This is a beautifully photographed and edited film.

This is film tells the story of two idealistic young men setting off on an adventure of discovery, seeking to find the ways of the world and life. They travel with the least of resources, existing, for the most part, on the gratuity of fellow down and outers, and that of affluent patrons as well.

The world they discover is profoundly discouraging to them. They see the beauty of nature all around them, the majesty of the mountains, the plains, the weather, and the seasons; contrasted by the pitiful and tragic day to day existence of the most common of mankind, in the 1950’s Third World environments of Argentina, Chili, and Peru.

At their journeys end, weary, disillusioned, and sad, they separate and each return to their former lives to resume their planned life ambitions.

At this point, of the film, I’m thinking that this has been a fairly interesting, coming of age film, with a bitter message, reminding the rest of us, the First world, of the suffering and plight of the less fortunate.

But the epilog of the film goes on to reveal that the younger, and more sensitive, of the two adventurers goes on in life to become Che Guevara, and the other to also make his way to Cuba to live out his life as a doctor. In the “revelation” of the identity of Che Guevara it is noted that he was, “Murdered, by the CIA”, in Bolivia in 1967.

I was very disappointed to find out that this beautiful film was in fact a very well disguised pro statement for Communism, and a sympathetic tribute to Che Guevara.

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