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Rating: From Argentina to Chile, from Peru to Venezuela, the physical and spiritual journey on a battered Norton 500 that will leave them stranded several times (which they jokingly renamed La Poderosa) of a student named Ernesto Guevara de la Serna and his friend Alberto Granado.
It’s the birth of the persona of Che Guevara, who as a pampered almost-graduate in leprology (studies on leprosy), comfortably seated at his father's table in Argentina, initially decides to take a vacation wandering around a fascinating continent, completely different between North and South (but also between Chile and Argentina, as well as between Colombia and Venezuela), together with his friend.
Initially.
Just as he had a golden vision of reality, he had a similar one for his girlfriend who lives in an Argentine boarding school... but the journey, where they will meet all kinds of people (the extremely jealous town mechanic, the fish seller at the market, two seasonal workers without work because they were communists) will visibly change them. Their youthful antics will be no more, but the camaraderie between the two students will not fade, rather it will evolve into a new form of deeper friendship, also thanks to their prolonged stay in a leper colony, where only those who went to mass had the right to lunch that day. Discovering the natural and cultural dimensions of South America (the rock of Macchu Picchu, Pucallpa, Valparaíso), inextricably linked with human nature, where the Peruvian workers, tired of being exploited on an unworthy land, establish a commune to support each other in the terror of the police; where workers are mere tools for the bosses; where the indigenous people had no way to live with dignity, relegated to crafting their traditional tools and being seen as rare animals; where poverty did not touch the heads of government. This is what the young Ernesto, not yet Che Guevara, the young idealist, thinks about: raising the global populace from the sadness of a shameful condition (global because he was not satisfied with the result achieved in Cuba, but continued to fight).
Aside from the subsequent developments of communism not only in the Caribbean, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was a brave and idealistic young man, imbued with the same desire to improve things that inflamed Italian and French partisans, Burmese monks, and Americans who rebelled against the British Crown. The same as all those who are still fighting around the world to change it. Even though his ideals have been misconstrued, no one doubts that. But this doesn’t take away an ounce of greatness from his figure.
Brought to life by Gael García Bernal, the journey. From Boy to Man. From cotton wool to reality. Ugly reality.
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