Female Power - Stories About Women: They Can Live Well Without Men

Enrico 2022-04-23 07:02:00

I didn't think the director was a man,

I thought it was a female director who could focus so much on these two women, two ordinary and great women.

The time is in 1971, the black and white picture pays tribute to that ancient history, to that moment, that time.

A city in South America.

A originally happy middle-class family, a hostess, a maid, and four innocent and lovely children. Busy, busy, and happy.

Every day is peaceful and quiet, the hostess waits for her husband to come home from get off work, eat together, and watch TV.

But the calm was broken.

The male master cheated, he didn't give money to the family, he abandoned his family.

The maid is pregnant, but her boyfriend runs away when she hears it. She finally found out his whereabouts, but he ruthlessly rejected the child.

The hostess was very tolerant and hoped that she would give birth to her. Although her own family was on the verge of being broken and she was desperate, she still had the courage to take care of the whole family.

A parade, a parade about Che Guevara, shot and killed unarmed protesters, the maid saw her boyfriend, who was also one of the perpetrators, using his favorite martial arts, to bully the weak. The maid's amniotic fluid broke and she gave birth to a dead baby.

They go on a trip, the hostess confesses, the husband is not coming back, the children are desperate, and they ask if Daddy doesn't like them anymore. They have three sons and one daughter. The mother said she would work and she would take care of the family.

The three children went swimming, the waves were very strong, they disappeared into the sea, and the maid desperately saved the three children.

They start a new life.

They can do well without men.

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Roma quotes

  • Benita: [Looking at the dogs' heads mounted on the wall] They're all the dogs that lived here. Look. That there was Pirata. He died in 1911. Do you remember Canela?

    Cleo: Yes, where is she?

    Benita: Look at her. She died last summer. They say she ate a poisoned rat. But I'm sure it was the villagers angry with Don Jose over the land.

  • Cleo: I'm pregnant.

    Fermín: What's it to me?

    Cleo: It's that... the little one's yours.

    Fermín: No fucking way.

    Cleo: I swear it is.

    Fermín: I told you, no fucking way! And if you don't want me to beat the shit out of you and your "little one," don't ever say it again, and don't ever come looking for me again!

    [Executes a martial arts move and emits a martial scream]

    Fermín: Fucking servant!