We watched a really good film called The Motorcycle Diaries tonight. It’s a true story about a 23 year old medical student from Argentina who motorcycled across South America with a buddy back in the early 1950′s. This is a subtitled movie from a no-name studio and I got it because I thought it would be a cool road trip story, but it turned out to be more than that. What made the movie great was the cultures and people that these two guys ran into and how they were affected. This movie is far more about relationships and compassion than it is about adventure. I highly recommend it.
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You may not realize it, but the student in the film is Che Guevara who is remembered with very different feelings depending on where you were born. I thought this was a great movie also, for all the reasons you stated. While understandable his experiences would lead him to become a Marxist, it’s nevertheless ironic he would still end up as an executioner for Castro’s regime and go on to foment rebellions elsewhere.
Check out the Wiki post on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara
Yeah at the end of the movie they briefly mention his involvement with Cuba and that kind of shocked me. But sometimes people do the wrong things for the right reasons. I was still moved by his story.