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Motorcycle Diary

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Village Vidiot

I really liked this film about the young Che and a 9000 km trip around South America he took with a friend when he was 23/24. Wonderfully acted by both professional and non-professional actors (Bernardo Gael is great as Che and the guy who plays his friend is really marvelous). and directed with real skill by Will Sallas, this film truly allows you to watch the ‘birth’ of Che. He is a different young man when he finishes this journey. A wonderful, funny, real road trip on a Norton 500 through Argentina, Chile (not the most fun), Peru (the make or break of the trip) into Columbia. It culminates in a leper colony with truly affecting developments. See this one. See also the features, including an interview with Che’s friend, now in his 80s and living in Havana for 45 years, Bernal, Sallas, the other main actors, Che’s daughter, and producer Robert Redford. Really worth watching, although it is really ignores entirely the brutalities Che supported and perpetrated later in his life

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