Iciar Bollain's Even The Rain

Even the Rain directed by Iciar Bollain is about two people, Costa and Sebastian, who make a movie regarding Christopher Columbus who sails to the Americas and how he seized the land and indigenous people who were already present. While all this filming occurs, there is the water wars in Cochabamba, Bolivia led by Daniel, an actor who was recruited by Sebastian. The water war was about how companies from overseas were controlling the wells in Bolivia and were denying access to the public, they even restricted the people from collecting rain. There are some complications in the movie because since Daniel led the resistance and is apart of the movie, both Costa and Sebastian run through troubles of getting Daniel to be quiet until the filming of the movie was over. Bollain does a parallel between the two stories and how they revolve around each other. It can be seen through the characters that the scenes that they are filming are still …show more content…
First and foremost it was a foreign film for which I am not really into. However after the first half-hour I was already captivated by the movie and finished it in one sitting. Iciar Bollain does an incredible job at showing the contrast of history vs. present day. Bollain clearly demonstrates that in modern day people are still getting oppressed all over the world. Just because it is not happening in one country does not mean we can turn a blind and ignore the others. The themes that I comprehended through the movie was that if there is something you truly believe in, fight for for it. The resistance proved that they were able to overcome the obstacles blocking them and win the water war. The movie was an amazing and would recommend it to many people. It shows in great strengths the detail and amount of work put into this movie. This would be a movie I would watch again in the future because of how much I enjoyed it. I am glad I chose this movie to watch instead of the