The NY time quote is really thought provoking. Nowadays travelling is luxurious. You know exactly where you're going, use your phone to translate, book hotels, navigate the roads. Everything you do at your fingertips. Whereas, back in the day travelling was TRULY adventurous. When you go somewhere, you literally have no idea what you're getting into, who you're going to meet, the culture you're going to experience. the roads, the language, the scenery. You're not having 3 facetimes per day with your family or your friends. No social media. The onyl people who travelled back then, were people who truly wished to travel.

Glossing over how it changed him, how seeing the plight of the people of Latin America left him no choice but to become a revolutionary

This movie changed me. I saw it when I was 17 and it left an impact on me.

It is no conincidence that the stoey of Ernesto Guevara being born into an upper middle class family and becoming a revolutionary has almost identicle tennets to that the Buddha, who was also born into an upper middle class family and in almost disgust for the lavishness become enlightened. An amazing film! When I watched it for the first time in 2013, I bought a 600cc motorbike to go traveling!

Talk about children leaving home and coming back men. More then a man. I never noticed the transition portrayed in this long movie but this video shows it clearly. That clean shaven spanking cheeks to the rugged roughness, experiences and emotions gathered along the journey. Would Ernesto have become Che if this trip did not happen. Or would he become the big guy at the cafe in the start?

One of the things Jon Lee Anderson noted about Ernesto Guevarra's zeal for travel was that it seemed to help him think, that the physical movement and changes of scenery sparked his braincells into action, and that was something he seemed to be aware of needing. I guess it also was a response to the built up frustration as a boy and young man about periodically being immobilized by asthma. In other respects he would have been a standard sporty alpha male, but that debilitation forced him to experience the weaker child, little guy perspective, where others exceed you and scorn you, which sensitised him to human suffering in general and taught him humility. But it also left him frustrated and desperate to get into action again, to get moving as much as possible. In a certain way air travel, and the fact that North Americans are seperated from the so-called developing world, which is actually the places where the vast majority of humanity live that are held in poverty by the global imperialism that is overseen by the USA and NATO, has cut most north American travellers off from the kind of experience Guevarra went through. The same applies with the seas seperating the UK from Eurasia. Guevarra could have the experience of driving from his family's house straight into the rest of South and then Central America, because it was all the same continent, and the same roads, even when the tarmac gave way to bare earth. Air travel and sea accentuate the social segregations that class society builds into the physical geography - rich enclaves and poor neighbourhoods and slums and towns and cities in suffering permanent decline and political neglect. The rich build exclusive neighbourhoods and country clubs and gated communities and ultimately global imperialism so that they can hide the realities of the dehumanising exploitation their lifestyle depends on from their own eyes, so they can avoid going anywhere that isn't luxurious, and the risk of having their consciences pricked. Travelling the world via airports allows them to skip everything in between the luxury resorts and prettified historical sites that draw their fancy. So they quarantine themselves from the sensitizing experience of human realities that Ernesto Guevarra was able to go through, and can reassure themselves that the way they live is normal and represents a majority, because it is the majority of people they know and see where they go.

i think this is your best video yet! when you go overseas it can be easy to be just another tourist and not actually engage and learn from the rich culture around you. I really want to watch this movie now, you've peaked my interest haha

thank you for introducing me to this. As someone about to "travel for leisure" I will absolutely keep this in mind.

The very reason he is inspiration of millions. As they say “ alive as they never wanted you to be” ❤

Hi there. I am also an English teacher living in South America. I teach Brazilians to speak English so they can improve their lives. There is still so much poverty here. Of course there is an up and coing middle class but the gap between the poor and the middle and upper classes is still gaping. Thank you for your thought provoking essay. I am doing advanced classes with my students on the Motorcycle Diaries but right now. I too travel the world by motorcycle with my Brazilian wife. So thanks and keep up your good work ok. Steve

I am from Bangalore 🇮🇳 inspiring story loved it !!!

Thanks for making this. I used to have a DVD copy of this movie but I lost it. Watching this video reminded me of all the subtleties within the movie. In 2009 I took a road trip up the West Coast for 10 days. My philosophy while on this trip was slightly influenced by this movie. Obviously, it wasn't as epic as Che's trip. But this movie was on my mind the whole time I was on the trip.

I'm deeply touched..its only niw im beginning to know and realized how and why Che Guevara is respectable and loved by so many. He stoled our hearts with empathy and appreciation for humanity especially for the indigenous tribes.

I watched this movie couple of times to study spanish, means i just concéntrated on language. After I listened this video I really feel like to watch it again for a movie. Thanks so much for this.

This is wonderful, Mr. Mark! I love all of the scenes you chose, especially the ones at the leper colony, they're so impactful! I also really like the quotes you added, they allowed me to think about them once again after reading the entire book. The questions at the end and the NY Times quote are also so thought provoking... I'll make sure to think about the ethics the next time I travel!

i really like this video! it shows how che changes throughout the story and traveling very clearly and what we should learn from him. also i like your voice a lot!! it's very smooth and calming to listen to :)

You dear narrator, have done an incredible job on this. It was truly beautifully Done n has me thinking. Thank you. I will be watching this film later this evening.

Incredible video! I love how the video is so informative and thought-provoking. This video made me realize the importance of traveling with ethics in mind. I also learned more about the UN Global Code of Ethics for Tourism!

It teaches us that the 1950’s was the best time to do this kind of travel. There are huge chunks of the world where this kind of travel is too dangerous.

Nice Video! Was searching about a analysis about the movie.

This movie is the Latino Sidartha... The whole journey is very similar and the transformation conclude similar ways...

Thanks for sharing! All the best for your future endeavours! 👊🏻

Really well said!! And of course we could discuss for hour but I love the concise way you covered thank you!!!

Really cool video! I want to watch the film now :) Btw, I can give you some tips to help clear-up your audio, ask me about it sometime!

Excellent Video 🔥

thank you for this gorgeous video for such a beautiful, life-changing movie.

this I enjoyed a lot. teaches a great lesson about how to properly communicate information

thanks for making this video !!!

beautiful. these are far too overlooked questions

thank you for describing beautifully

he was so handsome and an incredible writer

Such a beautiful film

Interesting analysis!

amazing!!

one of my fav movies

Hi ! Thank You !

Beautiful

very good!

Another thing to note is how che's memories have the people staring at the camera, as if to say "you are causing this pain and suffering"

I Love South America

Che guevara was a intelectual, a medical doctor and a missionary that wanted to change the status quo.

thanks

In the era of global warming, I think ethical travel is travel within driving or rail distance, and, if places more distant, infrequent travel. I think when you visit a country for the first time, it's hard to avoid the most touristed places. I think therefore more ethical travel is to a place you have already been to, so that you are not tempted to see the top-tier tourist destinations and you can go off-the-beaten path to places where tourist dollars are rarer and do more good.

Can someone share the website list of best travel movies he posted. Thanks a lot :)

From the 1870s until the end of ll World War, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world, so he was shocked when he saw a world behind the Andes mountain😢

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Dato para agregar a este excelente relato,Rodrigo de la Serna en el rol del Che,es en la vida real el tataranieto del Che por parte de la madre .

I am not me anymore ever since I came from Latin America to this country I have traveled like Che as a hitchhiker and I’ve seen everything that I could towards here. this country is not great but the tools that it has in its citizens and its laws are used to make it a little better everyday towards greatness one day... or not. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Glaring contrast of “ethical” and “Che” existing in the same hemisphere guts the intended message. Film was an effort to romanticize/sanitize one of 20th Century’s and Latin America’s great murderers - a physician, no less (from a rich Argentine family). Intellectual and historical honesty will better illustrate/promote what is an otherwise great message.

“and which should we condemn”. Hubris much? Nobody cares what you condemn.

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It is 'nice' to reflect on this iconic diary but feel that the word travel is commoditized. Humans that have the urge to wander the planet to be seen as 'invaders' is a simple concocted defenition by an 'elite western self centered mental model'. Both visits, tourism as business, as well as 'ignorent commuters', who determines its justification to be somewhere or travel through? True most humans are collective thinkers, creating birth rights stemming from populating like rabbits, but numbers don't count in free spirited souls. Its even distastful to define 'ethical travel', by a tourist board representing who? Che, a free spirit to create meaning to his existence simply crossed cultures with an aim, nothing to do with ethical travelling. Yes, there is an elitest group preventing others to 'travel' but for entire other (selfish) reasons. Ethical travelling is a misnomer, each human has the birth right to go anywhere, anytime and by any means he/she likes, no ethics there, nothing to do with che either! An elitest upload....

Beautiful film, too bad it doesn’t answer how this guy became a murdering thug working for yet another dictator.

Thank you for this beautiful video/analysis. I am not much of a traveller but still, I never thought about travelling this way. In a way, Guevarra was right - travelling for travelling itself is indeed a privilege.