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Originally posted by Chris Knipp
Certainly, Howard, and the movie has its limitations, but as I said, in seeking some of the things you outline, "you're right, but one would be looking in the wrong place for these things" in looking for them in The Motorcycle Diaries, because they're not there, and were never meant to be there. To have shown an awareness of contemporary Latin American politics and economics, for instance, would be anachronistic in a story about 1952. "At face value" is pretty much the way we have to take it, and as a specific story about a specific trip at a specific time the movie is vivid and memorable.
Not at all. The narration at the end brought things to the present day, relating what Guevara went on to do and showing Gonzales in present day Cuba. Very simply, they could have added some commentary about how the conditions in Latin America have not changed since 1952. This would at least have made the point that violent revolution is not the answer and all the bluster about it has not changed conditions one iota.