1. Yalitza Aparicio, who plays the protagonist Cleo, was born in 1993 and is a preschool teacher with no acting experience.
Worried that the director was in the business of human trafficking, he took his mother to the audition.
Yalitza's mother is also a maid, and making this film is another way to pay tribute to her mother.
She is also the first Indigenous woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
2. ROMA, Rome was a middle-class neighborhood in Mexico City in the 1970s, and AMOA, in turn, means love in Spanish;
3. The director's selection criteria is to look like his family members, except for Marina de Tavira, who plays the heroine Sofia, all amateurs
4. The film is shot in the chronological order of the script, which allows the actors to immerse in it.
5. "Roma" is a film written, directed and photographed by Alfonso himself. For the first time, he is the photographer for a feature film. 90% of the story is based on childhood memories.
6. Cleo and Adela speak Spanish with the host family and converse privately in the native Mystec dialect.
7. The prototype of the film comes from Libo Rodríguez, Alfonso's childhood nurse, who also faced the situation of being abandoned by her father when she was a teenager.
8. Astronaut element:
The first time: a wealthy child in astronaut clothes walking through the forest fire, appeared twice;
Second time: the astronaut soaring in space in the 1969 movie "Blue Fireworks"
The third time: poor children with iron buckets in the slums.
Echoing Alfonso's childhood dream of space travel, he later also wanted to shoot "Gravity"
Marooned, directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, is a 1969 American film about three astronauts who are trapped and rescued in space.
9. Different children wake up in different ways. For Sofia, they wake up slowly by humming a song.
To Paco, the older child, wake up softly.
10. The fate of Cleo's fetus has long been hinted at. Hospital baby sleeps in incubator covered with gravel and dust
A passing cross.
And on New Year's Day, when a friend just finished his congratulations to the baby, the wine glass shattered instantly, which indicates the fate of the fetus in the womb.
11. The man who sang in the sea of fire?
Dressed in Kampus, who, according to Alpine folklore, was the entourage of Saint Nicholas.
During Christmas, St. Nicholas will give gifts and sweets to good children, and Kramps will pick up especially bad children, put them in bags and bring them back to the cave to make Christmas dinner.
The song is sung by a Norwegian actor, who sings the theme of longing and nostalgia for his homeland.
So the next scene turns to the scene where Cleo misses his homeland.
The symbolic meaning is calmly sung in the raging fire, as if in a dire society but still pure.
12. The military band appeared twice: the first time - sending the host away, the sadness on the hostess' face contrasted with the cheerfulness of the military music.
The second time: I saw the military band again after the trip. It has changed a lot, and the women have completed their transformation.
13. Class divide Cleo is leaning on the floor watching TV while the owner sits on the sofa
New Year's celebration, masters in the hall and servants in the small house
Before the fire, the master was drinking with a glass, and the servant was busy putting out the fire
14. The plane appeared 3 times for the first time: cleaning the tiles at the beginning
The second time: practice martial arts and practice boxing
Third time: the end
It can be seen as a metaphor for the intensification of revolution.
During the Tlatelolco massacre on October 2, 1968, a helicopter suddenly appeared over the square and two green flares were thrown into the crowd as a signal for snipers to fire.
The "Plaza de las Tres Culturas" (Plaza de las Tres Culturas) where more than 10,000 students gathered, and the military also dispatched helicopters to monitor the sky.
With the revolution in full swing around it, airplanes are everywhere.
The first and last echoes, the revolution is still fierce, but the great ones are still trying to maintain their families.
15. Cleo went to Fei Ming when she was pregnant and asked, "Are you preparing for the Olympics?"
This was in preparation for the 1968 Mexico Olympics, the first Olympics to be held in Latin America and the first to be held in a developing country.
An episode also occurred on the eve of the 1968 Olympics.
The ruling party frequently intervenes in the educational activities of the university for its own interests, and the excessive investment in the Olympic Games has also aroused social dissatisfaction, resulting in student dissatisfaction and demonstrations.
With the Olympic Games approaching, in order to establish a good image in front of the international community, the government decided to carry out a bloody crackdown.
On October 2, then-President Gustavo Diaz Ordas planned a plan against students and protesters in the public housing village of Tlatelolco, a middle-class area north of central Mexico City. a massacre.
Ten days later, the Olympics were held as scheduled on October 12, 1968.
16. The repression that Cleo encountered took place on June 10, 1971, the Corpus Christi festival.
The Corpus Christi massacre, or El Halconazo, was the massacre of student demonstrators during the Mexican Dirty War in Mexico City.
Los Halcones are US-trained Black Corps formed in the 1960s to suppress marches and protests.
Group membership is diverse, including sports clubs, police and hired thugs. Femin in the movie was hired here.
17. A satirical image of the governor's speech to transform the infrastructure, contrasted with the muddy ground
18. 2 appearances of Professor Zowick
1st time, performing mouth pulling car acrobatics on TV
The 2nd time, deceiving people on the martial arts field.
Following the speech by the governor of the slum in front of him, Professor Zowick was more like the government's endorsement.
The government made Professor Zowick well-known on television, followed by demagoguery through words.
Its deceived students, including Fei Ming, eventually participated in the government's bloody suppression army.
The stunt that Professor Zowick said, Cleo easily did.
19. A glimpse of the government's forcible land acquisition.
Cleo's home land was expropriated;
The cinnamon dog was poisoned by villagers because of a land dispute.
20. A glimpse of the revolution’s ferocity from the chat
21. Cleo's chat with a maid friend "I'm tired of watching these dogs, the children are always playing with him, and they don't stop for a moment." Isn't this the normal life of these diligent maids?
22. Cleo told Fei Ming that the movie he watched when the pregnancy disappeared was "Escape from a Tiger's Mouth", ironically that Fei Ming ran away quickly.
23. Clearwater and the Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival, an American rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The orchestra has composed many well-known classic songs, the most well-known of which are "Proud Mary" and "Have You Ever Seen That Rain?" ” and “Bad Moon Rising,” considered the lucky winner of the anti-war anthem at the time.
The Beatles don't need to be introduced, here's a beautiful photo
24. Blue Cross Soccer Team
The Blue Cross became the most successful club in Mexico in the 1970s.
Won 6 league titles between 1970-1980, the first Mexican team to reach the Copa Libertadores final.
25. Pink Panther, an animated character, has launched a number of TV animation works in the 1960s and 1970s.
26. When you confess the fact of separation with your child, the person next to you is getting married, and the worst day is the happiest day for others.
27. The main line is Cleo, and the side understands the experience of the hostess:
Happy to welcome, reluctantly begged her husband to come home, let the child write a letter to keep him, complained to the doctor, haggard Billy wanted to comfort,
The husband and his mistress went to Acapulco for a visit. They didn't send a penny for 6 months but spent huge sums of money on diving equipment.
28. "Roma" was nominated for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film at the same time. Before that, only 9 foreign language films were nominated and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. respectively
29. "Roma" has no soundtrack, only rich sound effects to immerse yourself in it.
30. Film awards
The 91st Academy Awards leads the list with 10 nominations, and successfully won three awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography
The 75th Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award
The 76th Golden Globe Awards for Best Director
A total of 120 awards and nominations made the film a big winner at various film festivals in 2018.
31. Netflix’s first original film was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, the last time it was streamed by Amazon’s Manchester by the Sea
32. Small contradiction: Cleo went to Fei Ming when she was just pregnant and said that she was preparing for the Olympics, then the time should be before 1968, but when she was celebrating Christmas, her friend said that 1971 was a happy year, and this pregnancy has been going on since 1968. Did it last until the end of 1970? ?
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