The Motorcycle Diaries is one of the best films of the year. You dont need to know anything about Che Guevara going into this film. All you need to know is that you will experience every emotion during this film. The interplay between the two stars is hysterical and real and will remind you of every road trip you have ever been on. Then when Ernesto Guevara and his best friend Alberto Granado show up at the leper colony to work you will see the changes both men go through.
I recommend you don't romanticize totalitarian goons. But hey, this might be a trend. It's high time we had a feel-good movie about the Cultural Revolution or the Soviet gulags.
I recommend that people see his other wonderful film, Central Station. Now if only I could find a better movie theater in this tiny town they've got me holed up in...
Missy
SUICIDEGIRL
California, USA
SEP 29, 2004 06:00 AM