Before the Rain

            BEFORE THE RAIN; BEFORE THE KNOWLEDGE.
             We are all familiar with, or at least have heard of the story about Adam and Eve. The story about the creation of the earth. According to this story, Adam and Eve find knowledge only after Eve has eaten from the forbidden fruit. The knowledge that they acquired is that they now know that one another is naked. God, the creator of Adam and Eve intended for them to live peacefully in the Garden of Eden, but since they found knowledge, and wanted to keep this knowledge, God punished them for it by allowing evils into the Garden of Eden.
             This evil has been with us ever since the earth was created. Evils such as wars, deaths, crime and so forth. Even now, as we approach the 22nd century, our earth is still constantly at war. One thing is for certain though, we live in Canada, therefore we are already much more fortunate than many who live in the 3rd world countries. As the film "Before the Rain" shows us, the people there have to fear their possible deaths at any moment, whereas we, residing in Canada, hardly know about fear or death. Most likely, the majority of us think that we die only when we are old. Through this movie, we find that the world is not as perfect as it seems. We realize about the tragic events, the truths out there in other parts of the world; the reality.
             The reality is that we, those residing in North America are much more fortunate then they, the ones living in the 3rd world countries. This is evident throughout the movie by various symbols and imageries. We start off the movie by seeing a group of children trying to play with the turtle. This is symbolic in the sense that the children are torturing this turtle, the children set the turtle on fire and finally killed this turtle with the bullets. By this, you can see various things, things such as how violent the children are brought up to be. In a sense you can say that they know how to kill and use bullets even at a small age.