Diarios de Motocicleta (2004)
Genre: Road movie / Biography
Duration: 126 minuten
Alternative title: The Motorcycle Diaries
Country:
Argentina / United States / Chili / Peru / Brazil / United Kingdom / Germany / France
Directed by: Walter Salles
Stars: Gael García Bernal and Rodrigo de la Serna
IMDb score:
7,7 (108.692)
Releasedate: 6 February 2004
Diarios de Motocicleta plot
Based on the travel stories of Che Guevara, one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara describes the adventures he had with his best friend Alberto during his motorcycle trip through South America in early 1952.
Actors and actresses
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Alberto Granado
Celia de la Serna
Chichina Ferreyra
Ernesto Guevara Lynch
Roberto Guevara
Celita Guevara
Ana María Guevara
Juan Martín Guevara
Uncle Jorge
Reviews & comments
arno74
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- 8700 messages
- 3342 votes
Nice road movie. I went into it blank, didn't know it was about 'El Che', and that's not necessary and is hardly relevant for the film. The beginning took some getting used to the style, which does not make it easy for the viewer. In a modest and documentary-like way, we watch the journey that the two main characters make through South America. The film looks realistic and intimate, perhaps also because the typical Hollywood sentiment is very clearly omitted here, there is little theatrical to this film. For example, when his girlfriend breaks up, you don't see emotional outbursts, etc., but a quiet and resigned Gevara who reads her suicide note, and the film continues without paying any attention to it. Once I arrived in the leprosy camp, I did find that that style was released quite abruptly.
I do believe that this journey has shaped Gevara, the many small (and not so small) suffering he encounters on his path has clearly made him think. How he subsequently changed into a gerilla leader seems to me to be a different story, we cannot conclude that from this film. The Gevara at the end of this film is a socially compassionate person eager to do something and not a trigger-happy riot fighter.
With such beautiful landscapes, the film is cinematographically successful, and the music that can be heard always seems to come from the region where they are located.
A successful, modest and quiet road movie, more than 3.5*.
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starbright boy (moderator films)
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- 22474 messages
- 5143 votes
It's a bit easy to take this period of Guevara when the seeds for his social involvement are being sown but you don't have to be so nuanced and show both his good and bad sides. Nor does it have to show the much nastier inequality he later saw (the coup d'état the CIA staged in Guatemala at the behest of Chiquita's predecessor, for example). The film doesn't really dig deep either, but it is a very easy-going and very accessible film about an adolescent friendship if you don't have too many responsibilities yet and at the same time a (too) mild political accusation. Can't resist the temptation to idealize Che a little at times (where his friend is a smooth talker, Guevara is mostly very honest and idealistic, even when it hurts), but not so much that it dehumanizes him. But it remains mostly superficial.
Guevara suffers from idealization and demonization these days, depending on your source. But it was not the almost divine idealist, nor the terrible bogeyman often made of it. As is often the case, the truth is much more nuanced.
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hamidgoodarzi
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- 35 messages
- 127 votes
The film deals exactly with the point of departure of "Ernesto Che Guevara". This biography / road movie can be called a quasi-documentary. The journey of two friends and two lives with common dreams in Latin America and the film shows a real picture of these lands.
The film becomes very deep and powerful in the second half and tends more towards the documentary structure. In one of the dialogues at the beginning of the movie, Ernesto's friend says that if there is no motorcycle, we should go on foot. Ernesto says better because then we see better and more people. Right from the middle of the movie, when the motorcycle is no longer useful due to its problems and being scrap, and they continue on foot, it becomes a journey to the depth of belief and changes both friends. The film follows life during the journey. And in the hands and curved lines of people's faces, there is a longing for life. The credits at the end of the movie are wonderful.
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