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The 91st Academy Awards just came to a close on Monday. Alfonso Cuaron directed "Roma", which was nominated for 10 Oscars, and finally won three crowns for Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography. This is the second time that Cuaron won the Best Director Award after "Gravity" in 2014. Although this time "Roma" and "Gravity" share the same mother as the protagonist, Cuaron as a director traces back half a Childhood growing up in Mexico centuries ago.
The title of "Roma" is taken from a wealthy neighborhood in Mexico City. Due to the origin of colonial history, it also reveals the origin of the director Cuarón's Spanish colonial descendants. The heroine Cleo can be seen from the appearance of an earlier aboriginal descendant on the South American continent, and the conversation with the cook Adra in Mistec makes it easier for the audience to identify.
The film starts with a long shot of Cleo slowly scrubbing the ground, until the male owner driving Ford's classic "Galaxy car" from the 1950s will be able to drive into the house, a picture of the Mexican ethnic group in the 1960s and 1970s in the card. Director Long presented the audience in front of the audience in a slow-moving, uniform slow-length shot.
The story of the film takes place in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, in 1970-1971. From the 1960s to the 1970s, almost the whole world was in the midst of a frenzy of young students, from the "May Storm" in France to the "Woodstock Rock Festival" in the United States, as if the entire human race entered. Like a period of rebelliousness, and Mexico, which is located on the Central American Isthmus and adjacent to the United States, will never be unknown in that frenetic era, which also constitutes the core background of the film "Roma".
Cuaron abandoned the dazzling long shots in the previous work "Gravity", and adopted a more restrained, soothing narrative rhythm and clumsy lens language . On the surface, "Roma" is a family of Hispanic descendants. The daily presentation in the middle of the age, in the seemingly mediocre life, contains Caron's deep pursuit of the historical evolution of the society in his homeland, and it is also a commemoration of his childhood growth.
In 2006, Alfonso Cuaron's film "Children of Men" came out. This "dystopian" masterpiece, which has now been hailed by fans, was only praised by critics when it was released, and the audience's reaction was directly converted into bad. box office results.
If there is no "Son of Man" under the shadow of sterilization at the end of the world, the African girl "Conceived by the Virgin" re-gives the "new origin" of human beings, there will be no Aboriginal maid Clio who can't swim in "Rome" to surf the giant waves to save Raised the sons and daughters of the master. Just like the movie poster on the beach, the whole family embraces Clio, the motherhood like the earth transcends the barriers and barriers of all ethnic groups, and allows all people to embrace. This is Director Cuaron's beautiful vision for the future of human beings, just like Dr. Stone, who is sleeping like a fetus in the spaceflight "maternal body" in "Gravity", will return to the gravitational embrace of earth motherhood after going through hardships and hardships.
At the Venice International Film Festival last year, "Roma" won the Golden Lion Award, the highest honor of the film festival. During the interview, director Cuaron also revealed that one of the four children in the film is the prototype of his own growth. The end credits show that this film is dedicated to Li Bo, Libo was the maid in director Cuaron's childhood home, which is also the original starting point for the creation of this film. This great motherhood and the birth of life are the constant motifs of Alfonso Cuaron's films.
In "Roma", the male character or father figure is missing, just like the Ford "Galaxy car" that the male protagonist at the beginning keeps shifting gears and drives into the house, the entire set of shots is an enlargement of the male local details, each shot It exudes "aristocratic temperament", and the classical music played on the car radio further enhances the "royal style" of such colonial descendants, but behind the dazzling halo is the extreme discomfort to this land, just like the "Galaxy car". The narrow and flexible Mexican streets are often scratched, squeezed or even deformed. My father's resistance and rejection of this "colonial territory" can be seen on the "Galaxy Car".
Another male character in the film is Cleo's boyfriend Fei Ming. He is young and vigorous. Joining the club for training is nothing more than a way of survival for the poor. In those frenetic eras, fighting against youth with youth was also a common means of pacifying violence. College students were inspired by the blood of the world, while the youth at the bottom, in order to survive and stand out, took up guns to suppress the students who were also young people, and were charged by their "fathers". The "Son of Fanaticism", whose revolver in Ming's hand scared the amniotic fluid, was not as lucky as the "Son of Man", and never woke up in the fading red tide.
In director Cuaron's soothing shots, he neither agrees with any party nor sympathizes with any party. Just like "Roma" shot by Cuaron himself as the director of photography, his point of view is always in the grayscale between black and white. He quietly and slowly pushed the Roman neighborhood of his childhood and the "sad city" of Mexico to the audience, forcing people facing the screen to think for themselves: We are in this 50-year time span. what happened?
When he was a child, Cuaron could hear the music of the Beatles on the radio. The movie theater in the city played the French film "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth", which was released almost simultaneously with North America. Mexico, which had just held the Olympic Games in 1968, welcomed the At the World Cup, the resonance between Mexico and global culture at that time also created director Alfonso Cuaron, who is well-known in the international film circle, and the other two "Mexico Three Heroes" who have been reported frequently in the past ten years and are talked about by movie fans. —Alessandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo del Toro.
The three directors have different backgrounds, but after all, they were born in the 1960s. They grew up in Mexico, where the economy is taking off, and they are located in the "backyard" of the United States. The rapid development of the country's economy corresponds to an open and relaxed environment. Cultural strategy, which is also the reason why the "three world-class directors" have been born in the film industry for more than 20 years.
Unlike previous Cuaron films, "Roma" is distributed globally by the newly emerging streaming platform Netflix. From the first original series "House of Cards" in 2013 to the first original film "Beasts of No Nation" at the end of 2015 to "Okja" in 2017 with the famous Korean director Bong Joon-ho, until now "Roma", Netflix's injection of the original vitality of film and television is almost global. The rise of streaming media platforms has also had an impact on traditional film and television production and the cinema industry, especially in France, a major European film country.
"Roma", which won the Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography at the Oscars this year, has positive significance for Netflix's future film distribution and even production. On the night of the Oscars, Netflix released the world's senior American film director Martin Scorsese directed the pilot trailer for the film "The Irishman" starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. It is certain that in 2019, Netflix will still launch an international film led by , good movies and dramas that continue to attract global attention.
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