The Motorcycle Diaries

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This film tells the incredible true story of a 23-year-old medical student from Argentina, Che Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal), who motorcycled across South America with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) in 1951-52. The trek became a personal odyssey that ultimately crystallized the young man’s budding revolutionary beliefs. Walter Salles’s film is based on Che’s own diaries of the trip.

Rating: ★★☆☆☆

Beautiful and interesting, yes.  However, I feel it failed to deliver on what it postured to be.

If I didn’t know who Che Guevara was, this movie was nothing more than a story about to friends traveling to a leapor colony in Peru.

Very small hints were made towards said “budding revolitionary beliefs.”  More predominant were Che’s fear of dancing.

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