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is interesting that the qualities that transformed Ernesto into the
Communist revolutionary Che are so similar to the qualities that can
also transform us into servants of Christ. Those “great feelings
of love” can be just as transformative in our lives as they
were in the life of Ernesto Guevara, but to a higher purpose. |
Diarios de motocicleta
(2004) Film Review |
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| CREDITS |
| Directed
by Walter Salles
Source
material by Ché Guevara and Alberto Granado
Book by Alberto Granado (Con el Che por America
Latina)
Screenplay
by Jose Rivera
Cast
(in credits order)
Gael García Bernal .... Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Rodrigo De la Serna .... Alberto Granado
Mía Maestro .... Chichina Ferreyra
Mercedes Morán .... Celia de la Serna
Jean Pierre Noher .... Ernesto Guevara Lynch
Lucas Oro .... Roberto Guevara
Marina Glezer .... Celita Guevara
Sofia Bertolotto .... Ana Maria Guevara
Ricardo Díaz Mourelle .... Uncle Jorge
Diego Giorzi .... Rodolfo
Facundo Espinosa .... Tomas Granado
Susana Lanteri .... Aunt Rosana
Fernando Llosa .... Von Puttkamer
Marta Lubos .... Schatzie von Puttkamer
Natalia Lobo .... La Negra
Carlos Rivkin .... Horacio Ferreyra
Elvio Suarez .... Uncle Martin
Jackelyne Vásquez .... Luz
Pablo Villarrazza .... Esteban Aguirre
Liliana Kolinsky .... Chichina's Mother
Produced
by
Daniel Burman .... co-producer
Diego Dubcovsky .... co-producer
Michael Nozik .... producer
Robert Redford .... executive producer
Edgard Tenenbaum .... producer
Karen Tenkhoff .... producer
Paul Webster .... executive producer
Rebecca Yeldham .... executive producer
Original Music by Gustavo Santaolalla
Cinematography by Eric Gautier
Film Editing by Daniel Rezende
MPAA: Rated R for language.
Runtime: 128 min
For rating reasons, go to FILMRATINGS.COM,
and MPAA.ORG.
Parents, please refer to PARENTALGUIDE.ORG
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| CD |
The
Motorcycle Diaries
Gustavo Santaolalla
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| BOOK |
Diarios
En Motocicleta (Movie Tie-in Edition) : Notas de Viaje
(Che Guevara Publishing Project)
by Ernesto Che Guevara
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin
American Journey
by Ernesto Che Guevara, Cintio Vitier (Introduction), Aleida Guevara
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| SYNOPSIS
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| Let
the world change you, and you can change the world.
The
Motorcycle Diaries, which world-premiered to a standing ovation
at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, follows an inspiring journey
of self-discovery and traces the youthful origins of a revolutionary
heart. The rich and complex human and social topography of the Latin
American continent is unveiled in all its glory as two friends experience
life at its fullest. The film, directed by Walter Salles (Central
Station, Behind the Sun), is adapted by José Rivera from
the journals of two real-life young Argentines, Alberto Granado
and Ernesto Guevara de la Serna – the latter of whom would
become “El Che.”
In
January 1952, Ernesto (played by Gael García Bernal) is a
23-year-old medical student specializing in leprology. Alberto (Rodrigo
de la Serna), age 29, is a biochemist. The two men bid goodbye to
their families and to Ernesto’s girlfriend Chichina Ferreyra
(Mía Maestro). Flush with a romantic sense of adventure,
they pile onto Alberto’s 1939 Norton 500 motorcycle (nicknamed
“La Poderosa” [“The Mighty One”]). The aging
bike carries them farther and farther away from familiar and comfortable
Buenos Aires surroundings, to surprising and exciting destinations.
The two friends become as close as brothers.
Over
the course of eight months and 8,000 miles, what starts out as a
lark becomes a profound journey of discovery, not only of themselves
but of a continent filled with infinite sorrow – and infinite
hope. From homeless miners to riverboat prostitutes, from lepers
to prosperous gentry, Ernesto and Alberto discover an affinity for
humanity within themselves, and a determination to change the world.
|
 Review
by
DARREL MANSON
Pastor,
Artesia Christian Church, Artesia, CA
http://netministries.org/see/churches/ch01198
Darrel has an incredible love and interest in the cinematic arts.
His reviews usually include independent and significantly important
film. |
I
wonder on how many college dorm walls the poster of Che Guevara
has hung. For my generation, at least, Che was the epitome of the
ideal of revolution. Even after death, Che continued to inspire
those who wanted to change the world --whether by violent or non-violent
means.
 Before
there was a Che Guevara, there was Ernesto Guevara, a medical
student from a middle-class Argentinean family. With a semester
to go before graduation, Ernesto, like many students have done
before and since, took some time off to travel and see the world.
Along with his friend Alberto Granado, Ernesto traveled the length
of South America. Along the way, they met people from all walks
of life. They saw things that were outside the comfortable lives
they had lived.
The
Motorcycle Diaries is based on this trip and the accounts
that Guevara and Granado later wrote about the trip.
 Road
movies, as a genre, are especially suited for
showing the influences that transform a person. This trip certainly
had a formative influence on the young Guevara. He begins to see
injustice and suffering that were fairly unknown to him. Certainly
he grows as a person though the journey and through the film.
But even by the end of the film, he is not yet the Che who has
now become mythic.
 That
is because the film is, for the most part, apolitical.
It doesn't expect the viewer to experience the same things Ernesto
did. Rather we are invited to observe him as he experiences them.
As we observe Ernesto, we begin to see, not what made him what
he was, but a bit of the humanity that goes into who he becomes.
One of the strengths of the film is that we are pulled into the
lives of Ernesto and Alberto without any judgments. We are interested
in them as people --for who they are at that point, not who they
become.
 The
key quality we discover in Ernesto is compassion.
He cares for an injured dog, for indigenous people displaced from
the land, for exploited miners. Ernesto and Alberto spend a time
at a leper colony helping provide medical care (remember, Ernesto
was soon to be a doctor.) At the leper colony his compassion begins
to create small revolutions: not wearing gloves like the nuns
require even though they are medically not needed, setting up
a soccer game with the patients.
One
of the most quoted statements by Che is
“The true revolutionary is
guided by great feelings of love.” In this film we
see the beginnings
of those feelings in Ernesto.
 Such
a journey by a young man who would become such a mythological
figure also invites us to think about what things form and transform
us. Is it that, because of where they went, Ernesto
and Alberto saw things that we don't see? Or are such things all
around us waiting to be seen? Sometimes the journey only shows
us what we have gotten used to ignoring. Surely such injustice
and need could have been found in Guevara’s home of Buenos
Aires, but by seeking life on their trip, they discovered a new
world.
It
is interesting that the qualities that transformed Ernesto into
the Communist revolutionary Che are so similar to the qualities
that can also transform us into servants of Christ. Those “great
feelings of love” can be just as transformative in our lives
as they were in the life of Ernesto Guevara, but to a higher purpose.
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