Even The Rain

I watched "Even The Rain" last night, but I didn't see any promotion or introduction about this film beforehand, but my husband said it was the best foreign language film award in a certain award. It's really nice. The film starts with a team of Spanish photographers in Bolivia shooting a film about the treatment of local indigenous Indians after Columbus' landing. During the casting, a man named Daniel and his daughter participated. Then the story began to intersperse the struggle between the local people and the foreign water company. Slowly, Daniel, as the representative of the local people's resistance to the foreign water company, gradually became the main line, revealing that the United Kingdom and other European countries, under the banner of aid, brought With the so-called feasibility report studied and passed by the so-called Harvard professor and the International Monetary Fund, he attempts to establish a local water monopoly company to charge the local residents an annual fee of 450 US dollars. What is the concept of 450 US dollars? Locals earn about $2 a day per person, which means the water they depend on will account for more than half of their annual income. This information is not very detailed, but only revealed through Daniel's speech, a conversation between the Spaniard and a government official. Water is the source of all things, and if even rainwater is to be monopolized by the government or foreign companies, it is no wonder that even women are fighting back because they are fighting for water for the future of their children. However, thousands of kilometers away, all we can see from the TV screen is the boycott and resistance of the so-called "local mob" against the United Nations aid, or this is what the mainstream media wants us to see, without Costa's personal presence Experience or this film, it is simply impossible to understand their behavior and to understand what is the truth behind the conflict.

Some memorized pictures:
1. Although the Indians shot by the director are modern people, their expressions when "acting" are very real, very close to the feeling of the Columbus landing period 500 years ago, Does this show that the nature of the Indians has not changed because of the invasion of foreigners. They are pure, kind, and united. Children are their only hope.
2. The director asked a few Indian women to pretend to drown their children in a stream, but they refused because they couldn't even imagine such a thing, even if it was prop BB, I think the reason why they refused was because Because their love for their children is so strong that they can't imagine being separated from their own children, they will not give up their children because they are being chased, and even if there is a dog attacking them, they will fight to the end to protect them. one second.
When Daniel's daughter was injured by a stray bullet and stranded at the post office in the city, her mother desperately begged Costa to pass through the layers of blockades, insisting on finding her daughter back.
At the meeting calling on everyone to protest, the passionate mother said: This is for our children to have water to drink in the future! So even if she was unarmed, she and all the other mother Indians had to fight back.
These scenes all show the selfless and great love of Indian women for their children, the seemingly ignorant but persistent love that makes people's eyes sore.
3. The actor of Columbus, I don't think he is the villain, his argument with the actor of the priest in the hotel just reflects his contempt and disgust for the so-called middle-class intellectuals, because he knows all the time. The friendliness and sympathy of the local people cannot solve the real life problems of the local people. He chats with Daniel's daughter and reveals to her his honorarium, which I guess should be a hint to the locals that they need to fight for what they deserve. He was the only one in the car who was angry and protested when he witnessed the rudeness of the local military to civilians in the car. He shared his beer with the captured people without fear of the savage soldiers. I think this is the real embodiment of humanitarianism.


I suddenly remembered another movie "Blood Diamond". There are so many beauties in this world that hide the chilling truth, and I feel more and more that we really can’t judge things by appearances, but we need to understand them through our own observation, thinking, and asking questions. Although it is not the whole truth, At least not to those who want to fool us easily.

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