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I couldn't agree more with your comment ... It is exactly what I thought about the people critizicing this movie wrong

Perhaps I should watch the film once more or maybe even two more times but Cleo to me stayed aimless throughout the entire film.

thank you! finally someone gets it

@@mikahong Exactly. In some other interview, Cuaron said that he specifically intended to avoid the coming of age, or the hero's journey, and similar tropes in this movie.

@@mikahong I found it refreshing. We are simply witnesses to an individual's existence as well as the world that surrounds her. Nothing more, nothing less.

Javiera Paz I had to go back and listen again when he said that. What an amazing quote to just throw off the cuff like that.

i was sobbing when he said that

"Two can be as bad as one, it's the loneliest number since the number two"

I had a panic attack watching it... best panic attack ever

That scene is 100% real it was a paramilitary group trained by south korean army and personal from West Point to control possible comunist manifestations in Mexico. Once, the entertainer Zobek(Mexican evel kanievel) went to their trainning camp to motivate them

Exactly my thoughts. I grew up listening to my mom's tells about her childhood in Mexico City back in the '70s. Watching Roma I felt like I was a child again, so beautiful.

That is beautiful. I'm not Mexican but relate to this - for me, it feels like healing just to hear songs from your country, photographs of your parents as children

That’s the same way I felt when I watched the movie with my mom. She kept telling me memories that were similar to the scenes in the movie and I couldn’t stop smiling. She couldn’t either. It brought such nostalgia to her.

Especially when she sung along with the songs word for word

You don't have to be Mexican at all, I love this movie. I'm truly happy that such movies are still made in such a commercialized era.

The marching band takes a literal meaning in the film, since we know here in Mexico to see children go and practice several days a week or young people who do military service, is familiar and takes you to several memories of your own. However, the marching band also has a symbolic meaning as it announces the call of chaotic times for these women, at first due to the abandonment of the father and Cleo's ill-fated pregnancy and in the end, it announces that maybe they have overcome these problems but, others will come, giving us to understand this cyclical concept that is life, an accumulation of experiences that are forging us until our death, also a bit of the other lives that little Pepe talked about. What a pity that many people have not had the patience to appreciate this great work.

@@foglias Thank you for your comment, Antonio! It's brilliant.

@@foglias I also wonder about: if this film in communicating a calm (the opening scene), a real time real space life is another layer of beauty and love to Mexicans and other POC. Having a life that is so focused on survival and little rest, yet in this film, it is presented in a nurturing maternal fashion - e.g. the water theme and earth references

Epipthedirector noooooooooooooooooo You needed to see this in theaters Netflix is ruining movies

@@theshawshankinception1220 I doubt this movie would have sold well in movie theatres. Movies nowadays are oveestimulating and full of explosions to keep the adhd audience attention. Roma is a nice laid back movie.

Angel Gutierrez indie films don’t expect to make money at the box office. It’s all about getting the director’s vision out there.

Exactly me too!! THANK U NETFLIX 4 ROMA!

@@theshawshankinception1220 Bottomline is it got to a greater audience. I'm in Africa and we only get big studio films at the cinema. I'm greatful I got to watch it so soon and in such amazing quality.

It was a good film, not great & I'm a film buff. I can see why major studios refused to greenlight it. The December on pandering from critics and Netflix's gamble with $100,000 campaign was ridiculous. Like I care where Alfonso got a lamp for the set, please.

@@patcurrie9888 you're always saying this

@@annev1703 I agree. It needs to be known, another prospective, tweaked.

@@patcurrie9888 I understand your point, it"s the sane as the others that do the dame, but to change things you need to be correct.

@@annev1703 I'm fine. Thanks

I didn't even consider her until she was nominated, but now I'm really pulling for Marina de Tavira. She really delivers the performance of the movie, imo.

I’m so conflicted because I want Olivia Colman to get honored for amazing performance in The Favourite too...

@@margarettaylor473 Olivia Colman won, phew.

That's ingenious!

And she said it like 5 times in a minute. I was shook 😂😂😂

Dog shit is a thing from real life... ;)

Well it was kind of needed to illustrate her point

Well, is literal dog shit.

sergio vela I loled so hard I cried, maybe it was because I was stoned haha.

No lo había notado, ¡Es muy cierto! Gracias por compartir esa idea :)

Yess I thought this too. Also I’m not 100 percent sure but there was no background music throughout the film and that made it even more realistic as in real life whether events are big and important music won’t start playing out of nowhere

Isa Moguel Soy Mexicana y esta película me encanto

@Maria Jose Claros Castro Yes, I often find myself very comfortable with other people from latin America because they seem very similar to me. We share similar aspects of culture, language, expiriences and media.

Same! Filipino, but the sounds and streets are so surreal.

Blank I’ve heard somewhere that Filipinos and Mexicans are very similar in many aspects lol

No dude, stop. Super si! Latinoamérica es muy similar en todo el tema de ser súper familiares y las dinámicas de muchas cosas

Seconded, you can always count on a plenitude of ScreenPrism videos come Oscar Season!

I think all of them deserved their nomination except for Black Panther and Bohemian Rhapsody. I honestly don't understand why they're here. Roma is my favorite tho.

We stan drama I mean I also like vice and green book but they are not what I would call best picture

We stan drama personally I don’t really mind bohemian being nominated. I personally enjoyed the film and thought it did a pretty good job just being a movie but that’s just my opinion

People on the internet : "my opinion is the best opinion and you're all wrong"

@@katrinaborja4095 But did it really deserved the nomination? I can say the same about Infinity War: "It did a great job being a film so it deserved the nomination".

I felt the samee, My sister played the movie infront of me and told me: This is Roma, take a look... I just saw the water with bubbles in the flour and said: Ok I need to watch this ... hahahaha

THIS

IckyVickyy96 give it a try and watch it when you are feeling relaxed and with nothing disturbing your mind.

En nov vi los cortos....y le dije a mi esposa...va estar nominada...cuando la vi en dic....estaba seguro que estaba viendo la mejor pelicula en la historia. Asi de grande es Roma!

Fingers crossed. I hope Star is Born (which is good too) doesn't win. This film is just so much more innovative and original.

@@apullcan Green Book won! Roma got best foreign film though.

True. I talked to my film prof abt it and he even told me it's an "age thing". He thinks I cant connect to it because I'm young and I haven't been through certain obstacles to realize the greatness of Roma...but I doubt that. I can empathize with the characters just fine, from the innocent children whose childhoods takes an unexpected and dark turn when their parents separate, from the one kid getting hit for something he isnt accountable for, knowing enough to not blame the mother for hitting the kid, the distraught of that same mother of losing her husband to infidelity, how she thinks men are pigs, Cleo falling for the wrong man, how that man hides his jackassery and cowardice well, to her loosing her baby, to how those kids at some point felt closer to her than their mom. I still dont "feel it" either. Yes, it's a touching story. I feel like...Cleo is a bit too aimless. we know all these things abt her...she has a natural ability to connect w children, shes good at her job, well liked by her employer, and then what? EDIT: After a year and having rewatched the film my feelings abt it has changed. I wasnt immediately able to connect with it because I was expecting it to be a particular kind of storytelling and that limited my understanding, so that was my mistake. Still, I dont agree w my prof that thinks it's an age thing, I stand by my saying of having empathized w the characters just fine, it's just that now I understand that it's film that doesnt really intend to show the goal of the main character, which is what I was looking for in the first place. I feel for the characters and I was just looking for a goal from Cleo.

@@mikahong It seems to me that non-mexican audiences can have a hard time connecting to this movie. Of course she's aimless because she doesn't have the priviledge of choosing a career, she doesn't have financial security, she's away from her family. Domestic workers, specially back then, were pretty much at the mercy of their emloyers. Also, even I (having grown up in Mexico City) find it surprising when someone doesn't have "career ambitions", but we must keep in mind that the mentality of people coming from indigenous communities might be different, not so meritocratic, and that doesn't mean it's inferior or wrong.

@@mikahong thats funny, I am young too, 17 and I connected deeply with the story, mostly because I grew up on my mom telling me how her grandma would buy Gansitos, the exact same food the Grandma in the movie buys to the kids at the end, to her and her brothers, I grew up with my father showing me pictures that he took of the city when he arrived in the 70s from the small town in Nayarit where he grew up in, and that's the thing, I had a literature teacher that said "Here in Mexico we are all dying to tell our stories" not because we think they have a great finale or something like that, it's just that we like to share our memories and we recieve all those memories with love because we all cherish the past in a weird way that ive only seen in Mexico and in the end we all got a story to tell.

I was raised in Latin America of the 80s, which still had some of those elements seen in this movie. I wasn't living in Mexico per se, but it was similar. I could SMELL the burned sugar and sweat and cigarette smoke of the cinema doors, the smell of the cars, the feeling of those old houses... The noises on the street... THIS is why it cannot ever, EVER resonate with Americans. It's a nostalgic feeling in our uncouscious minds you cannot and will not ever understand.

I’m a 16 year old white girl but I strongly connected to this film. It was the best movie I’ve seen in a while. I definatly felt the directors attempt to bring smell to life as throughout the film I could smell so many scenes. I cried many times during this movie, when the husband left and the marching band went by, when the weird guy sang in the fire, when the protest shooting was going. I really felt connected to Cleo because she was simple and aimless and good-natured, I felt throughout the movie a sense of relatability. She wasn’t a model, or a badass, or manic pixie dream girl, just a person. I think the movie emphasized trying to order the world only to have it keep being messed up again. Every attempt to bring joy into the characters lives eventually failed, but they just kept trying, and just kept loving each other.