Daily Dialogue — April 27, 2020

Miner: We didn’t have much, just some tough, dry land.
Miner’s Wife: It belonged to his grandpa.
Miner: It was ours. Until a land speculator forced us off.
Miner’s Wife: That’s what they call progress.
Miner: So we had to leave our son with family and hit the road, looking for work, trying to escape from the police who wanted to put us in jail.
Alberto Granado: Why?
Miner’s Wife: Because we are communists. (beat) Are you two looking for work?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: No, we aren’t looking for work.
Miner’s Wife: No?… Then why are you traveling?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: We travel just to travel.
Miner’s Wife: Bless you… Blessed be your travels.

— The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), screenplay by Jose Rivera, book by Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Motorcycle.

Trivia: Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s diaries were only discovered years after he’d died, in a knapsack, and were published in Cuba in 1993.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of several scenes which had an influence on young ‘Che’ Guevara.