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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