Specific scenes highlight class disparities, such as interactions with displaced peasants, a leper colony divided by social barriers, and observations of indigenous cultural suppression tied to economic oppression, directly shaping Guevara's shift toward egalitarian and revolutionary impulses, including his closing birthday toast advocating unification of the Mestizo people. These elements draw from the source diaries but foreground systemic injustice narratives as the catalyst for personal transformation, making class struggle and indigenous oppression the central plot driver. The film applies a sympathetic biographical framing to the future Marxist revolutionary without modern identity overlays, presenting his ideological awakening through period-accurate encounters rather than contemporary lenses.

Authentic South American casting further supports this approach, with no established-character race or gender alterations. Together these choices produce a moderate woke score by centering progressive themes of economic and cultural oppression as the story's engine while avoiding forced updates or identity-focused revisions.