Before he became the messiah of revolution, Che Guevara was just an idealistic medical student from Buenos Aires.

It is Ernesto Guevara, not Che, who is the subject of Walter Salles' visually arresting The Motorcycle Diaries. Based on the journals of Guevara and his best friend Alberto Granado, the film tells of the road trip they took in 1952 to experience as much of South America as they could.
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The Motorcycle Diaries is an excellent coming-of-age road movie about one of Latin American history's most enigmatic, iconic and controversial characters.

When not posed in his beret on the front of a counter-culture T-shirt, Ernesto (Che) Guevara is best known as the Latin revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro win the Cuban Revolution and later was killed trying to foment other revolts against the establishment in 1960s Latin America.
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