Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Rachel and I went to see The Motorcycle Diaries tonight (if you don't know what I'm talking about, you can click the picture below for a trailer). I'm very glad it made it all the way up here to our snowy land; it's rare enough to get Mexican movies, let alone films from farther South.

Along with The Good Life (by Helen and Scott Nearing), reading The Motorcycle Diaries is one of those “it changed my life” sort of books (although I admit that I only read it for the first time five years ago). I wasn't sure if the movie would be able to capture both the humor of the journey and also be able to give the insight into the class struggle that Che saw on the trip, but I think it did.

Anyway, I know that's a lame review, but you really should go see it, or better yet, read it (link is to the translation I read, one of many). Consider reading Chasing Che at the same time; I read them at about the same time and it really helped me understand the journey better. Most of all though, I think unless you read the book it's hard to really understand what it is to be American. And if you haven't read the book (or at least seen the movie), that sentence probably doesn't make much sense…