A main moral conflict is that between Costa—the money-driven movie producer with no sympathy for the Native peoples—and Director Sebastian, who is younger and has a little more sympathy for the Cochabamba Natives. Though Sebastian is portrayed as a liberal idealist, he fails to accurately sympathize with the racialized labor system in Bolivia and the cyclical colonialism that he is perpetuating without realizing it. Sebastian and Costa become more aware of how they are treating the Cochabamba Indians when they ask the mayor to negotiate with demonstrators of the resistance so that they can keep Daniel out of jail and continue to shoot their scenes, specifically the scene in which the Indian leader in the Columbus film—played by Daniel—is burnt at the stake by hostile conquistadores. The mayor reminds them that they are paying the actors only two dollars a day, which is contributing to the Cochabamba’s impoverished condition and slave-labor-like lives. This scene offers a comparison of the similarities between the producer and director of the movie and that of the corporation that is raising the price of water: both act as forces of colonialism in También la Lluvia.
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The film shows that women are a newfound source of extremely cheap labor, and they are being exploited by rich corporations in developing countries. This is juxtaposed with the Columbus film itself, where Sebastian and Costa exploit their actresses and attempt them to participate in brutal and uncomfortable scenes, like scenes of women drowning their children. However, the women in the film are eventually given a voice when their brave resistance is able to momentarily halt the whole shooting of the Columbus film. Because of the women’s determination and refusal to portray the indigenous women as women that would drown their children, Sebastian was never able to film the shot the way he
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The film shows that women are a newfound source of extremely cheap labor, and they are being exploited by rich corporations in developing countries. This is juxtaposed with the Columbus film itself, where Sebastian and Costa exploit their actresses and attempt them to participate in brutal and uncomfortable scenes, like scenes of women drowning their children. However, the women in the film are eventually given a voice when their brave resistance is able to momentarily halt the whole shooting of the Columbus film. Because of the women’s determination and refusal to portray the indigenous women as women that would drown their children, Sebastian was never able to film the shot the way he