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Byline: Jane Sumner
The best movies make a difference. And "The Motorcycle Diaries," directed by Brazilian Walter Salles and starring Mexico's hottest actor, Gael Garcia Bernal, is one of this year's best.
More than a funny buddy movie, though it's that, too, the road film rescues the restless, footloose young doctor, known to Cuba and the world as El Che, from cold iconography.
Seventeen years before "Easy Rider," two Argentineans roared out of Buenos Aires on a motorcycle. The 1939 Norton 500, nicknamed La Ponderosa (The Mighty One), didn't last long, but their eye-opening journey did.
Before they parted in Caracas eight months ...
Source: HighBeam Research, `The Motorcycle Diaries'.