Even the rain has much likeness within the concept of the movie as the writings of Spanish conquests and encounters. The movie in itself is much like the conquest of the new world, mistreating and using locals as a form of labor, using the land for their own advantages, and involvement in revolutionary movements.
Bartolomé De Las Casas, for one, wrote on using the natives as a form of hard labor in the mines. The film’s equivalent on this matter is where they make use of underprivileged locals to engage in hours of physical labor for set preparation for just a mere few dollars a day. In doing this, Costa saves thousands of dollars by having the locals as underpaid extras performing tasks meant to be completed by experienced engineers.
Costa had chosen Bolivia to resemble how the new world would have looked during the time of the conquests. Essentially, Costa and his team are taking advantage of the land to use if for the film and to shape it to their likeness by building particular sets using landscaping and natural element. This is much like what Columbus had written about the beauty of the land and of gold and splendors of the new world and their own abuse of the new world’s land.
Perhaps intentional, I find the film to be highly ironic, yet effective of how the movie itself is about filming a movie about the arrival of Columbus in the new world whilst during this filming, the cast are acting similarly towards the land and natives, as the explorers and conquistadors actually did.
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