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Mood:
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- BuddiesFriendshipFriendsComing of AgeHuman NatureIntrospectionRebelliousnessSelf Discovery more...
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- DramaForeign
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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- ArgentinaColombiaLos AngelesLatin AmericaUSAMountains
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- EpisodicOn the Road
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The Motorcycle Diaries, 2004
Quechua, Spanish
Argentina, USA, UK, Germany, Mexico, Chile, Peru, France
Profile of The Motorcycle Diaries
The mood of The Motorcycle Diaries is captivating, touching, and bittersweet. The plot centers around buddies, destiny, and rebelliousness. It is a drama and foreign movie. Stylistically, The Motorcycle Diaries is episodic and has a road movie structure. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in the mountains. The Motorcycle Diaries is set in Colombia, Argentina, and Los Angeles. It happens in the 1950s. It is drawn from a biography, originally a true story, and based on a book.
Summary of The Motorcycle Diaries
In 1952, a young medical student and a biochemist from Argentina set off on a road trip across South America. As they straddled their beaten up motorcycle, the men talked in awed tones of the sights they were about to experience. The record of their trip may have disappeared into the ether if one of the riders departing on that fateful day hadn't been the future insurrectionary figurehead of the Cuban revolution, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (played here by Gael Garcia Bernal). The young Che's companion on the trip was his best friend, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), with their simple goals being to enjoy themselves, and meet some girls along the way. As the trip unfolds at the behest of their spluttering motorcycle, the boys discover more about themselves than they ever imagined possible. Ernesto clings tightly to his ideals throughout, and delights in the opportunity to put them into practice. His refusal to spend the $20 provided by his girlfriend, Chichina Ferreyra (Mia Maestro), constantly angers his travelling companion as the two succumb to pangs of hunger. Ernesto's charitable nature comes to the fore when he reveals that he gave the money to a pair of out-of-work illegal immigrants. The trip winds down as the friends offer their medical expertise to a leper colony in Peru, with the duo's youthful folly acquiescing to adulthood, and the dawning realization of where they should head in life.
Based on the books THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (by Guevara) and TRAVELLING WITH CHE GUEVARA (by Granado), director Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION) pulls some highly accomplished performances from his two leads. The South American landscape is breathtakingly captured on camera, with Salles vividly reproducing a continent beleaguered by poverty and disease, but containing a population in possession of an unshakeable sense of optimism, as beautifully personified by Guevara and Granado.
Details
| Language: | Quechua, Spanish |
| Country: | Argentina, USA, UK, Germany, Mexico, Chile, Peru, France |
| Release date: | 15 January 2004 |
| Runtime: | 126 min |
Cast and Crew
as Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
as Alberto Granado
as Chichina
as Celia de la Serna
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
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- by: Dana Stevens
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Kenneth Turan
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- 12.February.2011
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