Rain also is the latest film production Icíar Bollaín, which was selected by Spain to represent the country in the last Oscar Awards , but not enough to be among the five nominated foreign language film. The film, a multinational division that includes Luis Tosar ( Cell 211) and Gael García Bernal in the lead roles, tells the story of a production team that travels from Spain to Bolivia to film a movie about the arrival of Christopher Columbus to America over 500 years. However, the shooting will face several setbacks when people in the small town where they are filming the band decided to rise against the government and a foreign company that distributes the water at inflated prices.
Rain also is a very interesting film exercise. On the one hand, lends itself to analysis from the point of view of development and production of a movie as it shows the dynamic between director, producer, screenwriter and actors, and conflicts, decisions and dilemmas facing the team. While on the other hand, the film maintains a spirit of social criticism supported by the very irony of the story that unfolds. Ultimately, we can see that 500 years after the arrival of the English in America, indigenous communities and poorer Latin American countries are still exploited and marginalized by people both from their own country, as other nations.
The irony of all is that as time passes and people in the crew begins to sympathize with many people in the village, they realize the reasons for their struggle and how their rights are trampled upon by others unjustly in the eyes of the world insensitive. However, what face can they support the cause if they themselves also traveled to that place in order to finish the recordings under a shoestring budget, with the help of cheap labor?
The only but I put the film is the fact that touches on many issues besides those mentioned above and feel that fail to develop each to the maximum. Beyond that, it is an interesting film and very well done technically, which is also seasoned a magnificent performance by Luis Tosar, whose character achieves a catharsis to engage more with the townspeople. No doubt Rain also invites analysis and reflection on those communities far from large companies continue to struggle daily for survival in an increasingly unjust world that continues to leaving the sidelines.
Rating: *** 1 / 2
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