THOUGHTS ON THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES: having just gotten back from seeing it: I'm amazed that anyone thought this would make for a good movie, and as a friend noted, it's shocking to think of the number of people who okayed the Che-swims-across-the-Amazon scene, which was so over-the-top I couldn't help but laugh.
More seriously, I can see how Che ended up as a fascist: he's working both the alienation of man due to the modernization of the means of production and the harkening back to a golden age (based on race, of course), which was cruelly ended early. And this was a sympathetic portrayal.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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