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Incredible film - a MUST see

posted 13 years ago by gin_martini
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Loved every minute of this film. A powerful story and strong filmmaking. Excellent performances and cinematograpny.

Great story and I would say a very good film. Only problem I had with it was the moment Costa went with the mother to find Belen. I just could not believe his character would do that at that point. Other than that, it was brilliant, especially the writing.

[–] moore2772 13 years ago

Well, he got swept up with the people and the place, something that is easy to do in Latin America.
Since the Water Wars were true, how come the US press hardly paid any attention to it? Just like the Guatemala Civil War- went on for 30 years and the press here paid no attention. We have to pay more attention to our own hemisphere!!

[–] ella_leona 13 years ago

Only problem I had with it was the moment Costa . I just could not believe his character would do that at that point.

I couldn't believe Sebastián didn't - considering the subject matter of his movie. Like life people are often unpredictable.

And yes really good film.

[–] dylangod 13 years ago

Agreed. Costas's decision was very much in line with his nature, especially given his conversation with Sebastian in the hotel room (about how he had called Costa one night at 2 a.m. etc.). I think you could see from the start that he wasn't indifferent to the situation. Just pragmatic maybe.

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[–] TheSummer2012 13 years ago

Costa and Antón were the only ones who came to understand the parallel of the subject matter of their movie and real life. Antón was cynical about the whole thing from the start but at least he didn't pretend to care only to chicken out later (like Juan and Alberto (who played the priests in the Columbus film)).

[–] ultra_mafic 12 years ago

the moment Costa went with the mother to find Belen. I just could not believe his character would do that at that point.

I think it had slowly been building to that point. Remember he had gotten to know Daniel and Belen and the mother--that can really affect how you see someone or a situation. If it had been some random woman he wouldn't have given it a thought, I don't think. And the scene where she was begging him was like 10 minutes, I swear. He still took some convincing.

I'm not sure I loved him getting to the girl "just in time" and then having that tearful reunion/goodbye with Daniel. That seemed a bit much, but I liked it alright I suppose.

Great movie all around, though.

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[–] mrs_shakespeare 12 years ago

When I was watching the movie, I felt like Costa had no other choice but to help Belen. I felt like his character had changed by a huge degree, and it was a difficult decision to stay behind, but he had to.

[–] Torian06 13 years ago

I'm quite familiar with what the theme of exploitation of local peoples by European explorers, my own country (Philippines) having been colonized for 3 centuries by the Spaniards.

What interested me is how this movie about modern filmmakers shooting their movie project on location parallels that same long-ago exploitation by hiring extras and gloating over the cheap money they have to shell out and how the mostly illiterate local folks thinks they are lucky to receive it. And instead of hiring machines for their heavy props, they used the labor of these extras. I find it funny, and at the same time sad, that the idealistic director Sebastian, portrayed by Gael Garcia Bernal, is so oblivious to that fact, consumed in showing the other side of Columbus, the explorer.

Another parallel is how the American Indian hero in their movie project about Columbus is also the fiery leader protesting the privatization of their water wells, demonstrating against their government for selling to an American water company and raising their bills to as high as 300 %, when before they have drawn their water from those wells for centuries, free.

As for the ending, well, how could one be soaked in filming about exploitation and not be humanized by it ? And with such an emotional appeal for help from the mother of a young girl performer Costa has become fond of during the filming.

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