(rated R)
Based on the diaries of Doctor Ernesto Guervara (Gael Garcia Bernal) this sub-titled Spanish charmer follows the motorcycle expedition of two guys, Guervara and his best pal Alberto Granado, in their youth – adventurous, foolish, in their twenties and wanting to have sex with every girl on the continent of South America. And so we follow them from Peru, through Chili and into Venezuela, watching them grow emotionally at each touching turn with humor, beautiful visuals and lyrical beats, not to mention a good deal of physical suffering from starvation, near accidents and plain humility. Somewhere along the way, two young girls will nickname Ernesto “Che” because everybody from his town says ‘che a lot’, and thus the infamous Cuban comrade to Castro, is born as Che Guervara. But the movie manages to end long before we know him as the revolutionary crazy man whose political power begins at the end of a gun barrel. Instead one will leave feeling they’ve just witnessed the do-gooder works of Jesus meets an innocent, hungry Oliver Twist.
