This Argentine surrealist political road movie by Pino Solanas is nothing less than one of the greatest achievements in cinema history. Besides politically important as part of the filmmaker's agenda against neoberal antipopular and antidemocratic prey, it is extremely innovative in the way it makes idiomatic expressions effectively happen in the story, together with amusing and intriguing allegoric characters whose very existence means different traits of Latin American endurace and identity. Besides that, it has a brilliant sarcastic text, a wonderful cinematography and art direction, and brings various parts of the continent as a single people who need to be together in order to make the utopia be turned into reality. I watched this film three times, only the second out of the big screen (precisely the only one I did not feel it as awesome, but just as good). This third time happened two decades after the first one, making me feel astonished again. Solana's masterpiece is gorgeous, beautiful both visually and in its very concept.
Review of The Journey
