The Motorcycle Diaries
The Motorcycle Diaries or Diarios de motocicleta… The story of two doctors, well almost, who set out on an adventure in a old Norton 500 bike, which they call “The Mighty One”, “La Pederosa” to be specific in the language the movie is made… The movie is in Spanish and I saw it with the sub-titles ofcourse… During the course of their journey, these two friends go through whatever one can think of… Bike Accidents, Crashing into cattle, skidding off into water, Snow, Desert, Water, Wind, Hunger, selling off the bike and so on and so forth…
One of the best scenes for me personally was when Emesto Fuser, jumps into the Amazon to cross it in the night only to reach the other side which is the camp for leprocy patients and celebrate his 24th birthday with them….
When I finished the movie and started reading about it, I realised that this man Emesto Fuser, later went on to be called Che, the iconic Marxist Revolutionary… Incidently I was unaware of this name till a few weeks ago when Bhumika talked about a Luxar highlighter ad which had won at the Cannes festival… That is when I had about the face with Subbu and Aro and we had briefly discussed him…
So Coming back to the point… This movie is now a favorite and stays one !!!!!
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