The Motorcycle Diaries is a lovely movie about youth and idealism. I saw it in theaters many years ago. It tells the story of two well-to-do Argentinian friends, Ernesto, a medical student, and Alberto, a "wandering scientist" who decide to go on an 8000 km motorcycle trip across South America in 1951. On their long journey, the pair encounter real poverty and injustice for the first time, and political ideologies start to take shape. The word "
romance" actually means "
adventure", and this is a very romantic movie. The acting, music and directing are all excellent, and the settings are astonishingly beautiful. Based on Ernesto's diaries of the experience, his is a slow, subtle, introspective movie that tells a romantic story of Ernesto becoming the man history knows him as, the communist revolutionary Che Guevara.
A+
One complaint: the subtitles go very fast sometimes.
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