A few months ago, I hosted another gay, american couchsurfer, Solomon. He was very nice, very interesting as well (he's studying gender politics) and we talked a lot.
We also have been, with Ada, Peter and (yet) another couchsurfer, to the Roxy, a bar-restaurant-cinema beside my former workplace at London Bridge. That night, they were showing The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta), the movie based on Ernesto "Ché" Guevara's telling of his trip through Latin America. We had come to watch another movie but actually, this one was really good! Given that we're gonna do the same kind of trip in hardly two months, it was very fortunate!
Image credits: Focus Features
So, this movie tells the trip that Ernesto Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado decided to make when the former was 23, and the latter 29. They had decided to go through Latin America, but also to apply their knowledge in medecine by working in a leper centre in Peru. The adventures, the discoveries, the encounters they're going to make, are going to deeply change them.
This movie actually explains why Guevara became the Ché. As I don't know anything about this political icon (I had seen Ché (Part 1), but couldn't see the follow-up...), I learnt a lot with this movie.
I expected this movie to glorify the main character much more, or to over-dramatise situations, but the director managed to make a simple, straightforward report, I liked that.
In a nutshell, I recommend it.
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