Bless your life to be different

Harrison 2021-12-12 08:01:05

Bless your life to be different
-about the movie "Motor Diary"

Introduction:
At the end of 1951, the young Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado rode a dilapidated motorcycle together, starting their second time Roaming travel in Latin America. During this trip, Che Guevara grew from an idealist to a revolutionary fighter with preliminary communist thoughts. The movie "Motor Diary" uses Che's travel diary as a clue to reproduce their arduous and romantic journey back then. Now, let us follow the lens and reproduce those brilliant youthful years.


"This is not a touching story, but a part of the lives of two people-Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. At those moments, they marched forward bravely on their journey for common hopes and dreams. "Their goal is to travel through Latin America that they know in books in a natural way in four months. . .

The young Guevara is serious and stubborn, while Alberto is cheerful and humorous. He likes drinking and women, but they all have a common character, that is, they love freedom, restless, full of dreams, and "to this continent endlessly." Stop the love."

On departure, Guevara said affectionately to his mother: "Mom, you will receive the most beautiful letter." Alberto said boldly: "Young Guevara and myself will embark on the journey to the most remote place of the human spirit, where we will see new land and hear new hymns. Eat new fruits..."

"Dear mother, Buenos Aires is behind us, behind us, there is a poor life, and the teachers, exams, and sleepy papers. we are in front of the whole of Latin America, from now on we just take our motorcycles .... I hope you can understand us, we like the same adventurer, surrounded by full of passion, admiration and envy ... "

vast On the Pampas grassland, snow-capped mountains, grasslands, flocks of cattle and sheep, facing this boundless vastness, Che Guevara quietly said: I am so happy, we have thrown away civilization and get close to the earth. . .

"Mom, when crossed the border, I do not know how he is feeling, time seems stagnant at the moment, it is forgotten in the land of melancholy behind in the new land my passion."

At that borders On the lakeside, he said affectionately: "When we are old and don’t like traveling anymore, we will open an outpatient department on this lakeside to give every patient the best treatment..."
Alberto "Count me, brother."

In Chile, Guevara treated a dying old man to a doctor. Facing an unchangeable death, he said sadly: Mom, I know we can’t help this poor woman. She is the most She can only live for a month, and I can only try to make her live decently. In the dying eyes, there was helplessness, fear, despair, and the emptiness of dying. It seemed that her body would soon disappear into the huge unknown surrounding us. . .

After their motorcycle was scrapped, Alberto asked: Do you want to continue? Guevara said, of course, because, only once in life is 30 years old. So they started hiking, which brought them closer to the earth and the poor people on the earth.

In a mine in Chile, they met a family of communists: We had nothing, except for a little dry and barren land. The land always belonged to us until one day the landlord drove us out. This is what they call progress, but we have to leave our hometown to find a job, and we must always pay attention to the police who arrested us. Because we are communists, many of our friends have mysteriously disappeared, and they are likely to be thrown into the sea. went. . . We are going to the mine. If we are lucky, we may be able to find a job. Work is dangerous, so they don’t care what party you belong to. . .

Che Guevara gave them the clothes he had on him, as well as the only 15 dollars he had on him. He said: "This is the coldest night in my life. The encounter with them gave me a deeper understanding of the world, and suddenly became strange to this world... When we left Chuji Kamata, I can feel that the world is changing-or are we changing? The more we go into the Andes, the more aboriginal people we encounter, who are homeless on their own land..."

In their contact with the people at the bottom, they really changed. In Cusco, Chile, the "heart of the Americas", they witnessed the destruction of local civilization by Spanish colonists. An Inca woman said: I never went to school because I want to look at livestock; I don’t speak Spanish, I only speak Kazuya; I think when I was young, I had enough money to cover everything, but now I don’t have enough money and there is no work to do. This is having more and more serious effects on us. . .

In Machu Picchu, the mountain city that once created a great civilization, Guevara asked: The Incas knew astronomy, brain surgery, and mathematics, but the Spanish invaders had ammunition. If you change the situation, what will the Americas be like today?

While drifting down the Amazon River, they saw a huge gap in reality. The rich took a large boat with well-equipped facilities, while the poor could only take a small straw boat dragged by a large boat. The people on the boat were crowded and mixed with humans and animals. People lay silently on the hammocks, looking confused and numb. Amidst the entertainment of the rich, Che Guevara looked at the helpless poor, looking extremely lonely.

They came to San Pablo by the Amazon River, where there is a village specializing in the treatment of leprosy. In three weeks, they worked with leprosy patients and had fun together, which enabled them to enjoy a life like a normal person, and also gave those desperate patients the confidence to persevere.

At the little birthday party held by the Leprosy Hospital for Che Guevara, he expressed his desire affectionately. He said: "Although we are little people, we are not enough to promote such a noble sport, but we believe that this journey It also confirms this belief that the division of the Americas into unstable and imaginary countries is completely false. From Mexico to the Strait of Magellan, we are a nation. In order for us to break free from narrow regionalism, I must respect Peru and also respect unity. America..."

This trip finally came to an end. In Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, the two good friends finally parted. Alberto became a doctor, while Che Guevara continued his life journey, and a few years later embarked on the road of revolution and became a great revolutionary.

"This is not a heroic deed, but a short parallel between two lives. They share common ambitions and dreams. Is our vision too narrow and sloppy? Are our conclusions too clueless? Maybe. Wandering in America, for me Bringing unexpected changes. I am no longer me, at least not the same me." Yes, their lives have since changed.

Guevara and Alberto met again after eight years. In 1960, Granado was invited to work in Cuba. The inviting person was his friend Che Guevara. At that time, Guevara had become one of the most famous generals of the Cuban revolution. Later, Che Guevara went to the Congo and Bolivia, fought for his ideals and was arrested, and with the support of the CIA, he was killed in October 1967. Granado lives in Cuba and founded the Santiago Medical School. He lives in Havana with his wife Delia and his children and grandchildren.


Postscript:
Half a century ago, in the developed countries represented by the United States, people called the "Beat Generation" appeared. When faced with the question of the meaning of life, they could not find the answer, so they had to rebelliously. Walking on the road, subverting all normal social norms with shock and horror, in order to prove the meaning of life. To express meaning with boredom is that people in developed countries cannot surpass the fate of the times. But in poor and backward Latin America, they have nurtured idealistic fighters like Che Guevara. Their uneasy lives and the passion of their youth, in this way, finally stand with the people at the bottom.

In this era in which we live, a soul who is unwilling to follow the trend will inevitably face such a contradiction: the meaninglessness of life itself and the instinctive pursuit of meaning. This unstoppable passion for life burns in the bottom of my heart, and I need to find an outlet to vent. Here, I once again introduce this romantic story to you, my friends, I invite you to look back and look at the long-lost land and the people living in this land. I hope that we can erase the floating clouds in our lives and move towards a unique unknown. I know that this difficult but flesh-and-blood life course is the source of our ultimate happiness, and we should pursue it.

(This article quoted a lot of Che Guevara’s diary during his travels)

Published on 2005-11-25

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Extended Reading
  • Carrie 2021-12-12 08:01:05

    Motorcycle is very important, but diary is more important. This trip started because of Granado's birthday, and quietly ended when celebrating Che Guevara's birthday. Start with the idea of ​​finding the answer, you may not be able to find the answer. If you don’t know the end point, then anytime, anywhere during the journey can be used as the end point.

  • Iliana 2021-12-12 08:01:05

    Eight thousand miles to the cloud and the moon-where we will see new land, hear new hymns, eat new fruits.... My heart hurts, drunk, and smoked. Tears flowed into a river. If possible, I would also like to entrust a man named Che Guevara to the United States to give me a pair of underwear. Because I know that even when there is no food to eat, he will not spend my 15 dollars~

The Motorcycle Diaries quotes

  • Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: [voice over] What we had in common - our restlessness, our impassioned spirits, and a love for the open road.

  • Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me any more. At least I'm not the same me I was.