20. Motorcycle Diaries

Director: Walter Salles
Year: 2004
Actors: Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna
Plot: Recounts the 1952 journey Che Guevara took with his pal Alberto Granado on a motorcycle ride across South America. The trip became an awakening experience for Che who witnessed the poor indigenous lifestyle and began to realize all the injustice in the world...
Music: Beautiful Spanish guitar by Gustavo Santaolalla
Why:

• Incredible story to see how Che Guevara transformed from a normal young doctor to the infamous revolutionary we know him as today...
• Incredible settings in South America
• Good acting chemistry between Gael Garcia and Rodrigo
• Beautiful instrumental Spanish guitar, by the masterful Gustavo Santaolalla...

Key Moment: On his birthday night, the young Ernesto gives his first political speech in which he evokes the concept of a united Latin America... He later swims across the river to celebrate his birthday with the leper colony...