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• #ROMA THE FILM MOVIE#

The film also manifests the power of redemption that lies in selfless actions. Loss and dispossession are elements that allow the main protagonists of the film to reach a higher state of emotional maturity and to accept the inevitability of change. It is through this perspective that differences of class and ethnicity are overcome.

Tight close ups and and quick cutting be gone, the shots of Cleo waiting for Fermin at the movies and then the cut to her staring out the window to the rain were incredibly personal, aas for many other intimate moments like these throughout the film. The evocative portrayal of life in Mexico City in the early 1970s is strengthened by the fact that the film is shot in black and white and with the use of long held shots and wide camera angles, which brings about a sense of detachment yet feeling quite centered while giving a feeling of distance.

This narrative of dispossession also serves to signpost the transition from childhood to adulthood and from emotional brokenness to emotional maturity. This narrative of dispossession also informs the way that they both respond to the challenges that are presented to them. The transformation that was taking place in the family environment and in Mexican society as a whole appears to sustain the narrative of dispossession that is pervasive throughout the film. There is, therefore, a feeling of loss that goes on throughout the film. Later on, Cleo, who admits to not have wanted the baby to be born, delivers a stillborn child. Fermin rejects Cleo when he finds out that she is pregnant. Cleo starts a relationship with Fermin, who lived in the outskirts of Mexico City and turns out to be one of the people that would later on exercise violence against the demonstrators. Nevertheless, her feeling of loss is more profoundly felt. As a young woman of indigenous origin, she is accustoming to enduring hardship. Cleo experiences the sense of loss in a more stoic way, perhaps because of her ethnic and socio-economic background. This sense of ontological separation is bridged through the experience of loss. This is seen in a palpable manner in the scene at the hacienda, which shows the dispute between the rich landowners and the people of poor background who set the forest on fire. There is a sense of ontological separation between people of middle class origin and people of poor background that is present throughout the film. Cleo is a young woman of indigenous descent, who lives with Sofia’s family, performing all the household tasks and taking care of the children. The film depicts in an eloquent manner the effect that the differences between rich and poor had on the Mexican social space. Since this is clearly a personal film, it would have felt authentic for him to explore this a modern, “woke” lens because that was not how he experienced it. Alfonso grew up privileged and sheltered and most likely came to realize as he became an adult certain truths and realities about his caretakers and or nannies and their treatment. It is semi autobiographical after all, an intensely personal film. Yet I actually liked how Alfonso Cuaron handles all of this. There is some controversy to this film due to the fact that it is telling a story of an indigenous women without an indigenous women’s voice. I think the way Cleo is treated as a background figure is commentary on the treatment of indigenous workers by the middle and upper classes of Mexico.

#ROMA THE FILM MOVIE#

The movie links the narrative of brokenness and despair with the social and cultural upheaval that was taking place in Mexico during the early 1970s, as seen in the proliferation of the political demonstrations organized by university students. The film celebrates the passage from a broken patriarchal structure to a wholesome matriarchal arrangement, in which both Sofia and Cleo, played by Yalitza Aparicio, have a significant part to play. Once the mother, Sofia, played by Marina de Tavira, acknowledges the irretrievable breakdown of the family structure, she is able to overcome the feeling of betrayal and to take charge of the household.

From this perspective, one can see how the narrative of the film serves to reinforce the theme of female empowerment. This situation prompts a significant psychological change in the lives of the main characters especially the mother, who realizes that she is now in charge of the household. The film depicts the upheaval that took place in the life of a middle class Mexican family when the father decides to leave the family home. Roma is a movie that evokes life in Mexico City during the early 1970s, a time that was of great social transformation.