Owl of Minerva
Cover From: I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor (Letters 1947-1967) “I take to my grave only the sorrow of an unfinished song,” Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna writes to his parents, quoting his favorite, Nâzım Hikmet Ran, in one of the farewell letters written in 1956, four years after a trip across Latin America that changed him and altered the trajectory of a revolution. The Motorcycle Diaries, documented by Guevara himself and later adapted into a documentary film released in 2004, is based on the iconic revolutionary’s journey across six Latin American nations: Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and Panama. In Buenos Aires, and a semester away from becoming a doctor with a speciality in leprosy, Ernesto, along with his friend Alberto Granado, set out on their journey aboard on “The Mighty One.” What is truly wonderful about the documentary, to be specific (apart from Gael García Bernal’s intense gaze) is something that is now a lost art in filmmaking...