The San Felipe
Title Company
Coming This Sunday - January 11th, 2009, 3PM
2004 'The Motorcycle Diaries'
As
part of its revised roster of activities, the bookstore
(in it NEW
LOCATION) will be celebrating foreign, camp, edgy
and cult films with a regular screening of a movie each
Sunday afternoon at 3pm.
This Sunday's choice is 'The Motorcycle Diaries'.
In 1952, a semester before Ernesto "Fuser"
Guevara is due to complete his medical degree, he and
his older friend Alberto, a biochemist, leave Buenos
Aires in order to travel across the South American continent
in search of fun and adventures. While there is a goal
at the end of their journey - they intend to work in
a leper colony in Peru - the main purpose is tourism.
They want to see as much of Latin America as they can,
more than 8,000 miles in just a few months, and also
bed as many Latin American women as will fall for their
pick-up lines. Their initial method of transport is
Alberto's ancient and leaky but functional Norton 500
motorcycle christened La Poderosa ("The Mighty
One").
During their expedition, Guevara and Granado encounter
the poverty of the indigenous peasants, and the movie
assumes a greater seriousness once the men gain a better
sense of the disparity between the "haves"
and "have-nots" of Latin America.
Free coffee and cookies are provided.