Jekuwara and South America

"The Motorcycle Diaries" (The Motorcycle Diaries) has been drawn in Hong Kong for a long time. I remember that in the election of the Hong Kong Legislative Council last year, the long-haired Liang Guoxiong entered the game, and the T-shirt he often wore was also a topic. The film company also took advantage of the momentum to launch this award-winning South American film. Australia has no hairy effect, so it was delayed until the end of the year. It has been shown for two months, plus it’s not a commercial film. When I watched it last week, there were only a few of us in the theater, and it cost a few tens of yuan to "package" the whole theater.

When entering the theater, the theater staff scowled and looked at us for a while, as if we had hurt her. Maybe if we hadn't sold several of our tickets, that movie would be cancelled. Can she take a short trip to take a break?

In fact, he has never been quite clear about the life of Zheguhuala, except that he was a South American Communist Party, participated in the Cuban revolution, and was later arrested and executed in Bolivia. I thought the movie would describe why he embarked on a revolutionary path. After watching it, I realized that the movie didn't pay much attention to it. If you watch him as an ordinary drama about young people being changed their minds by social miserable conditions, you may be more satisfied.

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At the beginning of the story, Zhe Gu Huala had already completed the university medical school (there is a problem with the translation of the name, 23 years old is not a teenager?), he is suffering from asthma, and My friend Alberto set out from his hometown in Argentina, riding a motorcycle from south to north across Vietnam and America. There was a description of love in the early part of the movie, but then it disappeared. Their journey was of course not smooth, the tent was blown away by the wind, and the motorcycle broke down later. But they persisted. While climbing mountains and ridges, they saw a lot of injustices: poverty, political persecution, death, prostitutes, and leprosy.

I think this movie depicts too many different tragedies and is too scattered, but it leads to insufficient tension. Encountering members of the besieged Communist Party on the way, if according to the future life of Zhe Gu Hua La, this paragraph should be the most important, but it turned out to be only lightly taken. I don’t know if Argentina is still a bit taboo against revolutionaries and dare not describe it in too much detail? Later, the main episode became the plot of volunteering in a leprosy hospital. The discrimination faced by patients is indeed sad. At the end, before leaving, Jekuwara swam across the river alone in the middle of the night despite his asthma, saying goodbye and encouragement. Perhaps this passage is too moving, and it makes people think that this is the main line. After the film is over, Zhe Gu Huala should return to China to practice medicine and help patients instead of joining the ranks of anti-government.

South America in the film is a vast continent, but it is full of a large number of poor people. It has been decades since Zhe Gu Huala died of his ideals, and there does not seem to be much progress or change in South America. Except for football, everyone rarely hears from South America.

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