This is a film that wants to paint the picture of Che Gueverra's epiphany. It wants to be important. Brazilian Director Walter Salles (Central Staion) knows the basic approach of telling a chronological story, filled with visuals which tell the audience as much as the dialog. The idea of two friends embarking on a journey that could never be completed on its original terms (travelling South America on an old motorcycle with hardly any funds or plans to earn their way) makes for the small bit of drama we get. And that's the problem. The future history is irrelevant to the movie experience unless you are told otherwise, and we are not. Our lot is an expressed realization of inequity and injustice through roadside interviews, nothing first hand. That's not drama. Our boys struggling to get along despite their circumstances and ideals (one wants justice while the other comically wants women) seems to be what we are left with. Our two leads, Gael Garcia Bernal and Rodrigo de la Serna are compelling and keep our attention as the ultimate road trip duo. The music enchants the scenes bringing you into these travelers shoes, but their minds would never accept events this way. They came from family money and protected upbringings. It is an endearing movie at times but the change that is supposed to be taking place on screen is still somewhere in the writers' screenplay, you would have to believe. And here that's what you have to do.

Very well made movie. A journey which you will feel that you are a part of. I felt like I traveled across South America through this movie, the scenery of Latin America that I saw though this movie is beautiful. Gael García Bernal (Ernesto Fuser Guevara) was at his best and so Rodrigo de la Serna (Alberto Granado). They never came out of their role in any part of the movie. The movie shows the real situations that people of Latin America faced during that period. The movie is not a serious one also had some funny moments that really makes this movie more enjoyable. People who loves adventure and trip kind of movie, this one is a must watch.

Everything has been said and more, so I will only add a grateful comment for such splendid entertaining time I got by watching this excellent movie. The Brazilian director Walter Salles did a fantastic job with a theme and locations quite hazardous and yet all the scenes seem to be as real and spontaneous as life itself in which we are participating as one more of the crowd; whatever the amount of technicians surrounding the actors they seemed to be nonexistent.Gael García Bernal as Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Rodrigo de la Serra as Alberto Granado and all those actors from Argentina, Chile and Peru were simply perfect in their roles. The locations, spectacular, although they were not the prime object to be photograph as it could have been the case in a documentary, they just happened to be there and we appreciated them.I noticed that one of the producers for this film was Robert Redford, but he didn't appear in any scene as an actor.If the real life "Che" Guevara was like the character in this film and did the things he did ending up as the myth that everybody knows, I don't know if that was so (nobody knows) but if he did, it's funny the similarity some of these personalities have in common, like Mahatma Gandhi or Eva Perón, when they only turned away from established society and fought for the poor when they suffered themselves grave injustices. Very entertaining movie, superbly done, beautiful soundtrack and excellent, well balanced script.

Based on 'Che Guevera's' youth before he became 'Che' , it is a tale of a man's becoming. It is a portrayal of real events. I still have a lump on my throat from the emotion in the movie. I think the indigenous people are the one most affected by the current scheme of things which is hugely based on education-based skills developed for industries.The indigenous with minimal education has little scope in such a context. I can relate to Alfredo(Che)'s longing to have one united south America - his all encompassing approach towards everyone in the south America as his own people. He is not saying that from his philosophical thinking , he is telling it from his heart. His earnestness is so moving. I also admire his honesty and boldness. He is so soft at heart but at the same time very very bold and very very honest. There is saathvik advice that says you need to work to find out your life's mission and then live it. We know how Che has lived. Motor cycle diaries shows the homework.I don't really know what to write - I just know that I still have the lump on my throat.May be I should mention the scene where Che swims across the river from the section where the doctors stay to the section where the leprosy patients stay because having finished his birthday celebrations from the doctors' camp , he wanted to do the same from the patients' camp and on the same night as well and he has to swim the width of the river and he is allergic to water. That is one important piece - the inspiration part of it. This movie is very inspiring. It inspires you to follow your heart. It creates a longing in you. A life based out of passion - not based out of work schedules. Che was from a well-to-do background and he had a loving family with him too. He decides to sacrifice these for the greater good and the things that he wanted to do. He went around , saw things , did not like injustices around, had the balls to act against them and plunged himself completely into this mission. That is what he did, may be, somewhere along the line, he might have made mistakes.