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"maff" |
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28 Aug 2004 05:05:01 AM |
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OT: Che Guevara: When the reality becomes myth |
Che Guevara: When the reality becomes myth
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=555910
By Paul Vallely
28 August 2004
Even given its critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie
The Motorcycle Diaries, which opened across the country yesterday, has
created unusually large amounts of pre-publicity. Surprisingly, you
might think, if all you knew about it was that it is the story of a
journey across Latin America by two men on a Norton 500 who uncover,
on the way, the deep poverty of the continent in the early 1950s.
What changes everything is that one of the two men later went on to
become the archetype of the contemporary revolutionary, Che Guevara.
At the end of that motorbike journey he announced: "I want to link my
destiny to that of the poor of this world." But the real journey here
is not one from Argentina across a continent to Guatemala. It is not
even Guevara's transition from bourgeois complacency to fiery rebel.
It is a voyage from reality into myth.
Che Guevara
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