Even the Rain is a film that explores water conflict which is nuanced from a political and colonial perspective. It is about a Mexican team that set out to Cochabamba in Bolivia to shoot a film that revolve around matters of colonial era which entail gold search by the colonialist who faced indigenous resistance. In the process of hiring the Cochabamba people to participate in the film the crew finds itself in the same situation as the colonialist in the break out of the famous water conflict of Cochabamba in Bolivia between 1999 and 2000.
The globalization of water affected the people of Bolivia by making them realize that it can be used to give life and also take it away. For instance in the vial of Bolivian water that was accorded to the film makers by David the people of Bolivia learn that water gives life. On the other there is a scene where women are acting forced drowning of the babies and this shows the people that water can also be used to take away the same life that it gave. It also brought conflict as it took them back to the era of colonialists who came in a similar manner in pursuit of exploitation of gold reserves in the lands.
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The people who benefitted from the globalization of water as a commodity was the foreigners who come to run the water systems of the region after water supply and ownership is privatized. It is because the residents are forced to buy water at very high prices and are not allowed to tap even the rain water. The historic parallels that I am able to draw form the film is the coming of the colonialist to take up gold mines of the natives and exhausting the minerals for their won profits and leaving the locals poor in their own land.
