Beautiful, moving film.

A different way of telling a story

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Easy Rider is to the U.S. as this movie is to south america as a whole. I love how it shows the man behind the myth. Che before he was a revolutionary: An adventurous college student who wanted to explore the rest of south america and see what it really was, if possible even help improve. The film is well shot, well acted and the story is easy to understand and you really sympathize with Che and Alberto's plight: Trying to unite south america under Marxist rule for the greater good. Gael Garcia Bernal really embodies the spirit of che and puts on a good argentine accent. I remember watching it during a plane from peru (yes, I visited macchu picchu there just like in the movie). It's a great movie and worth watching.

In 1952, 23 year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Gael García Bernal) later known as Che Guevara decides to spend 4 months to ride around South America with 29 year old biochemist friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo De la Serna) on an old beat-up motorcycle. There are girls, fights, breakdowns, sickness and most importantly Che's discovered connections to the people.Gael García Bernal is a real charmer and a convincing ladies man. He is handled with reverence. The country is beautiful. The story meanders like their trip. The relationship is not that compelling and they have no deep revelations. They are mostly a bickering couple. It's a little funny but repetitive. It's like a travelogue without much tension. If not for Che, this would be a rather unremarkable road movie.

This is much more than the standard road movie you may mistake it for.Despite the money issues, job worries and political unrest of the era, it is a picture-perfect-postcard showcase of Latin America in the 1950s.It is also a fascinating portrait of a middle class, idealistic young-man, at the beginning of his journey from adolescence to revolutionary.In short, this is a film that truly inspires.Divorced Dads Cinema Club Rating 90% – Important, quietly brilliant and essential viewing

Based on 'Che Guevera's' youth before he became 'Che' , it is a tale of a man's becoming. It is a portrayal of real events. I still have a lump on my throat from the emotion in the movie. I think the indigenous people are the one most affected by the current scheme of things which is hugely based on education-based skills developed for industries.The indigenous with minimal education has little scope in such a context. I can relate to Alfredo(Che)'s longing to have one united south America - his all encompassing approach towards everyone in the south America as his own people. He is not saying that from his philosophical thinking , he is telling it from his heart. His earnestness is so moving. I also admire his honesty and boldness. He is so soft at heart but at the same time very very bold and very very honest. There is saathvik advice that says you need to work to find out your life's mission and then live it. We know how Che has lived. Motor cycle diaries shows the homework.I don't really know what to write - I just know that I still have the lump on my throat.May be I should mention the scene where Che swims across the river from the section where the doctors stay to the section where the leprosy patients stay because having finished his birthday celebrations from the doctors' camp , he wanted to do the same from the patients' camp and on the same night as well and he has to swim the width of the river and he is allergic to water. That is one important piece - the inspiration part of it. This movie is very inspiring. It inspires you to follow your heart. It creates a longing in you. A life based out of passion - not based out of work schedules. Che was from a well-to-do background and he had a loving family with him too. He decides to sacrifice these for the greater good and the things that he wanted to do. He went around , saw things , did not like injustices around, had the balls to act against them and plunged himself completely into this mission. That is what he did, may be, somewhere along the line, he might have made mistakes.