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Cochabamba Film Analysis
he film is about a Mexican film crew (with director Sebastián) arriving at Cochabamba, Bolivia to shoot a post-colonial film on Christopher Columbus’s early conquest to the New World, the violence of these early colonizers in their search for gold over the local communities and the subsequent indigenous resistance. While hiring the Cochabambans as actors for their movie, the film crew finds itself suddenly in a similar kind of colonial/imperial

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