The Motorcycle Diaries is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. The film recounts the 1952 expedition, initially by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. As the adventure initially centered around youthful hedonism unfolds, Guevara discovers himself transformed by his observations on the life of the impoverished indigenous peasantry. Through the characters they encounter on their continental trek,... Guevara and Granado witness firsthand the injustices that the destitute face and are exposed to people and social classes they would have never encountered otherwise. To their surprise, the road presents to them both a genuine and captivating picture of Latin American identity. As a result, the trip also plants the initial seed of cognitive dissonance and radicalization within Guevara, who ostensibly would later view armed revolution as a way to challenge the continent's endemic economic inequalities.
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| Release date: | January 15, 2004 |
| Directed by: | Walter Salles |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 127 Minutes |
| Producer: | Edgard Tenenbaum, Michael Nozik, Karen Tenkhoff |
| Editor: | Daniel Rezende |
| Music by: | Gustavo Santaolalla |
| Cinematography: | Éric Gautier |
| Screenplay by: | José Rivera |
| Adapted from: | Notas de viaje |
| Genre: | Adventure |