the MOTORCYCLE DIARIES

쿠바 혁명 영웅으로 알려져 있는 체 게바라가 젊었을때 남미 대륙을 오토바이로 일주하던 이야기를 영상으로 바꾼 영화다.

잔잔하게 펼쳐지는 혁명가의 젊은 시절 여행담이 참 좋았다.

킬링타임용 액션이 아닌 이런 영화는 보고 난뒤 감동이 있어 그게 좋은거.

 

딸아이가 체 게바라를 좋아하는 남동생을 위해서 이베이 통해서 구해 선물로 보내왔던 것인데.

일 마치고 돌아와 아내랑 같이 보기 시작하는데, 시험준비로 바쁘다던 아들도 끼어서 처음부터 끝까지 같이 감상.

 

영화 보고 난뒤 아내 이야기.

우리 이번 여름 시간내서 남미 여행 한번 생각해보자고.

답변 그러지 뭐... 그래볼까.

 

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Movie Description 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.