(wk´s 7 & 8) Aguirre The wrath of God

This is a movie of a German director which shows, through the story found in the diaries of a priest that goes in an expedition to America, how hard it really was for the colons to conquer it.

This movie shows how difficult it was the war or colonization for the Europeans against the natives in the dangerous jungles of South America.

The story takes place in Peru, where the famous Spanish conqueror Lope de Aguirre and his troops that sail through the Amazon River are unsuccessfully searching for the gold city of “El Dorado”.

What I liked the most of this movie is how it shows a different perspective of how the process of colonization really happened. They don’t show the colonization as an easy process like the vast majority of the movies and books that treat this subject, but they actually show that it was hard, and that the natives did gave a fight and, though they lost the war, they did won many battles.

The story is pretty good, but sometimes it goes very slow, and the spectators may lose the thread of it.

Besides this, I really recommend the movie to the people that wants to see a different interpretation of the colonization, because, every story has two sides.