Throughout high school, I had the privilege of watching "The Motorcycle Diaries" twice in two different Spanish classes. When I saw on the course calendar that we would be watching this movie in class I was very excited! I genuinely enjoyed this movie in high school, and still enjoyed it today in college. I think what I enjoy most about this movie is that it is a true story. What I find even more interesting is the fact that the main character, "Ernesto" (or Che), became a radical and the right hand man of Fidel Castro. The movie shows his earlier days as a gentle and kind young man with a bright future. However, he grows to become a violent man who is dangerous to the public. Not everyone would agree with that statement because many people look to him as a hero. In my eyes, I think that he became a very different and bad person from what he was. With this mindset, whenever I watch "The Motorcycle Diaries", my mind is boggled as to how he changed so much. It is hard for me to comprehend how he was (or how he was portrayed in the movie) to what he became. Although the story of his life is tragic, it is one that is worth knowing about.
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