Motorcycle Diaries
Motorcycle Diaries is a great movies and has many dimensions. I'd like to focus on one of dimensions of the movie, how Motorcycle Diaries presents the world in which we live and how the movie tries to capture lives of those who are underprivileged because that is something that I touched on in this blog several times.
Motorcycle Diaries shows miners, sick people living in an isolated location and civilization destroyed and transformed into a society that has no value or culture forcefully. Not a lot of movies have the view point of Motorcycle Diaries; in particular, there are few movies that show lives of miners. There are few movies that show sick people living in an isolated location. There are few movies that re-evaluate ancient civilization such as Inca and re-examine the modern society that has no value or culture in many communities.
No one movie that I know shows what is taking place in Latin America at large. The story actually takes place in 1950s; however, the central message still resonates today, and the movie captures various problems that Latin American has today. Generally speaking, the perception of Latin America in North America is that Latin American is doomed; it started doomed and it is doomed today. It is true that Latin American has number of political, economical and social problems, but Latin America was not born with those problems; problems were created by external forces to a large extent. This is the perspective that Motorcycle Diaries brings to the audience, and it is certainly not a perspective that any Hollywood movie brings to them.
Another thing that needs to be mentioned is that a big part of the movie is a biography of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is not the most well-known figure in US (certainly not in the way that those in Latin American know him), and if anyone recognizes his name, he is often viewed as a commie (derogatory term for communist; the term "commie" has no association with communism or Marxism in most cases. The term is often used to refer someone who is anti-social and advocates anarchy and/or totalitarianism). However, Motorcycle Diaries finally introduces who Ernesto 'Che' Guevara really was. He was very youthful. He had heart of steal, but he was also a compassionate man. He was humorous and he was honest. He becomes Ernesto 'Che' Guevara that we know today, as he learns about today's world, the world whose majority population was oppressed and exploited. The movie introduces true face of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara to the audience and it introduces the world that Ernesto 'Che' Guevara attempted to liberate, the world of oppressed and exploited.
Motorcycle Diaries is not a political movie, though one can view it that way. However, it is an important element of the movie, so I wanted to write about it in this blog entry.
Motorcycle Diaries shows miners, sick people living in an isolated location and civilization destroyed and transformed into a society that has no value or culture forcefully. Not a lot of movies have the view point of Motorcycle Diaries; in particular, there are few movies that show lives of miners. There are few movies that show sick people living in an isolated location. There are few movies that re-evaluate ancient civilization such as Inca and re-examine the modern society that has no value or culture in many communities.
No one movie that I know shows what is taking place in Latin America at large. The story actually takes place in 1950s; however, the central message still resonates today, and the movie captures various problems that Latin American has today. Generally speaking, the perception of Latin America in North America is that Latin American is doomed; it started doomed and it is doomed today. It is true that Latin American has number of political, economical and social problems, but Latin America was not born with those problems; problems were created by external forces to a large extent. This is the perspective that Motorcycle Diaries brings to the audience, and it is certainly not a perspective that any Hollywood movie brings to them.
Another thing that needs to be mentioned is that a big part of the movie is a biography of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is not the most well-known figure in US (certainly not in the way that those in Latin American know him), and if anyone recognizes his name, he is often viewed as a commie (derogatory term for communist; the term "commie" has no association with communism or Marxism in most cases. The term is often used to refer someone who is anti-social and advocates anarchy and/or totalitarianism). However, Motorcycle Diaries finally introduces who Ernesto 'Che' Guevara really was. He was very youthful. He had heart of steal, but he was also a compassionate man. He was humorous and he was honest. He becomes Ernesto 'Che' Guevara that we know today, as he learns about today's world, the world whose majority population was oppressed and exploited. The movie introduces true face of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara to the audience and it introduces the world that Ernesto 'Che' Guevara attempted to liberate, the world of oppressed and exploited.
Motorcycle Diaries is not a political movie, though one can view it that way. However, it is an important element of the movie, so I wanted to write about it in this blog entry.
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