HOUGHTON -- NOSOTROS, Michigan Tech's Latin American students' organization, will be showing the movie The Motorcycle Diaries at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, in Fisher 135 on the MTU campus. This movie is based on the memoirs of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Alberto Granados.
The film is in Spanish with English subtitles and rated R for language. The cost is $2 at the door.
Synopsis of the film: In 1952, a young medical student and a biochemist from Argentina set off on a road trip across South America. As they straddled their beaten up motorcycle, the men talked in awed tones of the sights they were about to experience. The record of their trip may have disappeared into the ether if one of the riders departing on that fateful day hadn't been the future insurrectionary figurehead of the Cuban revolution, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (played here by Gael García Bernal). The young Che's companion on the trip was his best friend, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna). Their simple goals were to enjoy themselves and meet some girls along the way. As the trip unfolds at the behest of their spluttering motorcycle, the boys discover more about themselves than they ever imagined possible. Ernesto clings tightly to his ideals throughout and delights in the opportunity to put them into practice…
The film won several awards, including an Oscar for the Best Achievement in Music written for Motion Pictures. See http://www.tribute.ca/movies/The+Motorcycle+Diaries/8831 for more information about the film.
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