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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I really enjoyed the film "Even in the Rain" because the movie had two stories going side by side. It was like a movie inside a movie, which was one thing that I really enjoyed about the movie. Overall the movie was very easy to understand. There might have been one scene that was not that clear to me but I got the general idea of it anyways so it was not really a big problem. If this was an American film the problem would have been solved in the movie, so it different from American films. To my understanding the problem was not resolved in this film. This film taught me how people in other parts of the world are living today and that people do not have the things that we take for granted all time. Also this film sort of taught us about the past which I taught was very interesting. It showed us how the British were treating the Natives. If was the director of this film I would have made it so at the end of the film everyone had water.

This film was very interesting and also was not at all what I expected it to be. The title of the film in no way gives away the fact that the film is about another film being filmed inside the film, and all the problems and conflicts affect this inside film. It was a based off of a real event that happened in Bolivia where there were water shortages and huge conflicts about this shortage and the over-sized demands made by the government. Throughout the film the (what I would call two main characters) change quite drastically and almost switch roles. I don't like that the viewers never really find out what happens to the film that they were filming there considering that the entire movie was really about that movie being finished, but other than that ending part I think that it was a really well put together film with some great actors that filled the parts well.

This movie is not based in history at all cause Colombus never was in Bolivia...not even close! Also natives were not victims, they practiced human sacrifices, including children and women. Well making heroes of natives is news that sell...Gael Garcia has strong Mexican accent and practices the method as in Motorcycle...your mom also...Babel, etc. As privatization of water: crown corporatiowns are not only ineficient bot also uncapanle of water treatment, besides Bolivia is under socialist rule, so the whole movie is based in aberrations; the film is native dogmatic, that is leads to idol a culture that is no different of others; massive extraction and treatment of water reqeuires a huge invesment, Also the move has tons of gofs and bad setdressing.

I found it very easy to identify with all of the main players thanks to some great performances from all involved and also a really nicely written script. It's really well shot with nice big, easily legible subtitles (more like this please foreign filmmakers!). It was interesting to see a film set in that region, we don't see very much from that part of the world. There are also some historical facts about the conquistadors that I wasn't aware of and so it even educated be a little! I love the way it slowly dawns on the crew that the mistakes made 500 years previously are still being made today! Over all, I found it well worth a look and it's one I would certainly look at again sometime.SteelMonster's verdict: RECOMMENDEDMy score: 8.3/10You can find an expanded version of this review on my blog: Thoughts of a SteelMonster.