Identity Crisis

“Even the Rain” is a famous drama film set in Bolivia to show the comparison of struggle between modern-day peasants to those of Columbus's era, in an effort to show the oppressed state of the peasants and their grievances. The movie showed how Columbus intentionally perpetuated a culture of slavery and slave trade to cause oppressions to the aggrieved Indians. While Iciar Bollain, the director of the film depicts Columbus conquest and its consequences on the peasant-class, the 2010 Spanish film clearly revels some of the most distressful conditions of Bolivia. Bolivia, in an unsuccessful attempt to curb poverty, became ...