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Once you have decided to make a film about Che Guevara, you face a forbidding choice. His life was a feast, so on which particular course should you concentrate? The taking of Cuba? The fiasco in the Congo? Bolivia and death? In "The Motorcycle Diaries," based on a memoir by Che himself, the Brazilian director Walter Salles has gone for the appetizer: an eight-month, eight-thousand-mile journey undertaken by Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his buddy Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) through South America in 1952. This was hardly a leisure pursuit, but the movie's curious air of suspended animation leaves you asking ...