DIRECTOR: WALTER SALLES
WRITER: JOSE RIVEIRA [SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK]
One of the most inspirational and touching films of 2004, the film won the oscar for the best foreign film category. Based on the life of Che Guevara, the film talks about the moment and the journey which made him the great revolutionary that he finally became.
It a travel journey of two friends, Granado and Erneto, from Argentina to peru, where they meet various kinds of people on the way, where they have no money to travel and use various methods to stay in peoples houses and eat. The film is humourous at the same time, touching.
When they finally reach their destination, they have lost everything they had including their bike they were travelling on . The film portrays the sensitivity which Erneto has and grows while this journey, he questioning the way the commuinists are treated, he going and meeting the lepers without showing any kind of malice towards them, he thinking about the way a river divides the ill from the healthy and ultimately crossing that river in the middle of the night just to be with the people on the other side of the river [ people suffering with lepracy] It a touchy and endearing character, something which will take away a part of you, or will add a part in you.
WRITER: JOSE RIVEIRA [SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK]
One of the most inspirational and touching films of 2004, the film won the oscar for the best foreign film category. Based on the life of Che Guevara, the film talks about the moment and the journey which made him the great revolutionary that he finally became.
It a travel journey of two friends, Granado and Erneto, from Argentina to peru, where they meet various kinds of people on the way, where they have no money to travel and use various methods to stay in peoples houses and eat. The film is humourous at the same time, touching.
When they finally reach their destination, they have lost everything they had including their bike they were travelling on . The film portrays the sensitivity which Erneto has and grows while this journey, he questioning the way the commuinists are treated, he going and meeting the lepers without showing any kind of malice towards them, he thinking about the way a river divides the ill from the healthy and ultimately crossing that river in the middle of the night just to be with the people on the other side of the river [ people suffering with lepracy] It a touchy and endearing character, something which will take away a part of you, or will add a part in you.
