A scarlet background, a big red background, a dazzling bright red background, a man with a beard and a beret looking up - this is probably the most famous portrait in the world. It's been printed countless times on T-shirts, hung on gay bar walls, and stabbed in the arms of addicts and villains. Over the years, this portrait has been worshipped and solidified into a totem that many people yearn for - the ideal of college students, the romantic feelings of the little bourgeoisie, the freedom and rebellion of punk, the leader of the oppressed, and the spiritual leader of the leftist angry youth. Add the terrorists' role model... and, after years of oblivion, a strong symbol of commercial consumption in China today.
Oh, Che Guevara.
Guevara's eyes are said to be an alluring blue, but this portrait is often a split-toned print, with a single black bulge that makes the part of his eye abstract and hollow.
After consuming Guevara all over the world and spoofing Guevara for dozens of times, who can restore that clear blue?
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The title "Motorcycle Diary" is not very appropriate, because the car completely disappears in the second half of the film. The first half of the motorcycle is full of flying youth, fantasy and freedom, and the romance is in a mess, but Guevara vaguely said, "I think I can meet more people by traveling." As if to confirm the correctness of this sentence, the classic car finally broke down, and the rest of the journey is on foot, hitchhiking and rafting on the Amazon River. So the film fell heavily from the sky to the ground. No more romance, no more flying youth. The two people are constantly in touch with the bottom of society and indigenous peoples, and they are in touch with the real South America in the early 1950s. It turned out that there was poverty and oppression, starvation and death, the displacement of people, and the hellish torment of leprosy. At the same time, on the ruins of the majestic ancient Inca Empire, the pondering over how barbarism and civilization prevailed, colonialism and social prosperity continued. On the boat, when Greg's companions used the money from gambling to fool around with prostitutes, he couldn't help but stare at the dying hungry people on the tugboat. I think that saints have always been saints, and they are different from ordinary people. They think differently and draw very different conclusions. Another place where the saints are different from us is that they are destined to be lonely, and ultimately have to walk into the darkness alone. When Guevara resolutely swam to the leper colony on the other side of the bank on his birthday, no one swam with him, although Guevara told his friends at the end of the film that he should think for a long time about what he saw during the journey. But I think that on that dark birthday night, when he successfully crossed the Amazon, Guevara had completed his life choices and completed his self-liberation. The other side of Walla, the choice of Guevara, is not darkness, but immortality.
(3)
There is an episode where they met a couple of unemployed miners during their journey. They were Communists, and their comrades were all killed by the government. By the bonfire, they asked Guevara, are you also looking for a job like us? No, we're not looking for jobs, Guevara said. The couple asked curiously, then why did you travel? Guevara and his companions looked at each other for a while, unable to answer. Somehow, for a split second, I felt like the couple's question was asking me too, asking every moviegoer.
On the Inca ruins, Guevara's companion said that he would marry a local indigenous woman, and then set up a party of the indigenous people and fight for their rights.
Guevara was leaning on the pile of stones while writing a diary or writing a letter to his mother. He raised his head and said, "Bloodless struggle? It's impossible.
" "Motorcycle Diary", even for a while, it is difficult to connect the handsome guy on the screen with the tough guy with the beard and the beard. Thanks to the increasingly rich D-version market, it is possible for us to temporarily detach from the Hollywood taste in art, and ideologically away from the indoctrination of the American way of life.
It seems that in this moment, at this moment, I saw a little bit of that clear blue.
2006.06.05. World Environment Day
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