The theme and narrative line of the film are very wonderful, and the narrative of parallel time and space makes the film very tense as a whole, and what it wants to express is more thought-provoking.
The performance of actors
Gael García's performance is really unsatisfactory, naive and a little naive, kind and kind, indifferent and a little cold, there are no ups and downs before and after the role, it is very flat. It also cannot reflect the deepness of being deeply touched by a few words and wanting to complete a work.
This role is also very contradictory. He who planned the play in the play was moved by the equal spirit of the struggle for the Indians in the historical story, but in reality, he just wanted to finish his film.
As he said, "It will all pass quickly, but our films will be immortal." Isn't this the colonialism that his script called "sleeping in sleep, using the sweat of the Indians"?
Costa's acting skills are nothing to say, and the transitions and progressions of emotions and characters are vividly displayed.
In fact, what is the difference between them and the government? For their own interests, they exploit the ignorance of the aborigines and exploit their sweat and labor. It's just a different degree. Their sympathy has never been more than an emotion of sympathy.
The actor who plays Daniel seems to have no other works, but this role in this movie is really well played by him.
2. On the theme of the film
What the film within the play wants to highlight is Bartolomé, the first missionary to speak for the Indians.
His words echoed in the desert, a reflection of the Spaniards on their colonial past.
In that era, for the first time, someone used the name of God to reflect on the sins they brought to the Indians: they once lived happily and peacefully on this land, but now they are fleeing everywhere because of us; Equality before species: what right do we have to enslave them and enjoy their sweat and labor?
We as observers on the Asian continent have seen a lot of reflections on the colonial era, and the Spaniards must have thought more. It's no surprise that this is part of the movie.
Although the scenes in the play are short, they have a huge impact: for example, the Indians fled from the Spaniards and the hounds chased, as if the history had been restored, and the sufferings the aborigines had suffered were displayed in front of the audience. .
And the scene where the women are drowning their own children is unimaginable but real.
In the short space, there is still a lot of tension in the play, at least the pain of the Indians can be seen.
What makes the film three-dimensional is the drinking water crisis in Cochabamba. It is a new age of struggle. It is true that the struggle has paid a high price, but it has made me see hope in despair.
Although the Indians lacked culture and weapons, and although the living environment was still harsh, they already had the ability and ideas to fight for themselves, and they no longer depended on the discoverers of conscience among the colonists to speak for them.
This is a kind of progress of the times, and it is also the greatest helplessness of this era. Hundreds of years have passed, and the people who hold the core resources of this society are still those blanquitas, who are still full of racial superiority, look down on the Indians in the same country, and slander the farmers' demands for drinking water as evil trying to subvert the regime Power, how ironic.
Siempre nos cuesta muy cara.
Ojalá hay otra manera pero no la hay.
Bolivia?? seems to have always been mysterious and would love to know more about it.
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