After the tremendous popular success of the
Fant?mas novels, both of the major French
film studios — Pathé and Gaumont —
vied for the rights to produce films based
on the series. Gaumont won, and from
April 1913 to May 1914 Louis Feuillade
directed five Fant?mas films which critic
David Thomson has described as "the first
great movie experience."
电影讲述了一次南美旅程如何激发了切格瓦拉全新的世界观,使得革命热情开始在他心中萌芽生长。格瓦拉(盖尔·加西亚·贝纳尔 Gael García Bernal 饰)当年23岁,意气风发,踌躇满怀,是一个医学院的学生。他对外面的世界抱有强烈的好奇心,于是和朋友艾伯特踏上了拉丁美洲的长长一串旅途中。他们骑上摩托车,风驰电掣的出发了,却不料摩托车很快就报了废。但这却一点没有影响年轻人的激情,二人靠搭便车来完成剩下的旅程。穿过拉丁美洲古老的文明遗址,穿梭于各个国家各色人群中间,他们开始真切感受到社会的真相、生活的苦难。当深入到亚马逊河流域的麻风病人区时,他们被所见所闻深深震撼。切格瓦拉开始思考宏大深奥的命题:人类、社会、经济、文明,人类的苦难、快乐的定义