"Motor Diary", an impossible A movie summed up with "travel" and "friendship". In December 1951, the young Guevara and his best friend Alberto Granado departed from Argentina. They planned to travel along the east coast of South America via Chile to the southernmost tip of South America and then northward along the Andes Mountains, and finally reached the northernmost point of Venezuela. Gila Peninsula. The long and long journey lasted 8 months and traveled nearly 20,000 kilometers, passing through countless villages and towns, wilderness and mountains. The beautiful and worrying journey at the beginning of the road has finally been completely changed due to the motorcycle scrapping caused by repeated beatings. The dream journey to celebrate the 30th birthday of a friend has gradually become an ascetic challenge of will. Fengchen climbed up to the once carefree face, but the faith to complete the journey has never changed because of the happy friendship and youthful perseverance. Hiking, hitchhiking, playing rogues, volunteering... the tone of the film gradually calms down, and the idyllic scenery is replaced by lively people and things.
South America is gorgeous and inherently desolate, ancient and endlessly mysterious. Following the route outlined in the diary of "Motor Diary", the diverse geographical features and social forms of this continent, which are least mentioned by people, gradually become clear. Behind the veil, passionate and unrestrained South American women dance to cheerful music, the old woman who has been bedridden for a long time clings to the last dignity of life, the numb-faced workers surround the campfire waiting for an unknown destiny, the noble and barren Cusco Inca under the sun Later generations ancestors chewed coca for generations, and a group of leprosy patients enjoyed the little fun in life... The pictures shocked the vision, and the facts silently changed the young minds of "going on the road". When they came to Machu Picchu on the top of the mountain along the ancient "Inca Trail", they looked at the remains of an empty ancient civilization shrouded in vast clouds and mist, wondering whether the silent Che Guevara was listening The mysterious and speechless call from the depths of the ancient continent?
"Let the World Change You...and You Can Change the World". At the end of the film, the two good friends embraced and broke up with tears-Alberto decided to devote himself to research to cure people's physical pain, but Che Guevara, who had just turned 24, never stopped his footsteps. The last breath of the journey of life.
"This is a story without heroic deeds," the subtitles at the beginning of "Motor Diary" said. Yes, this is indeed just an ordinary trip by a young man named Ernest Guevara. There are no vigorous deeds, and no harmless episodes of young people avoiding fights and lying. But probably no one would deny that such a trip completely changed the beliefs of one person or even a generation.
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