Roma is a film about life. It's about all of the beauty of the human condition as well as the brutality and suffering that goes along with it.
The story follows a maid in Mexico City who tends to a well-off family and her experiences with them and the other people in her life. Through beautiful shot composition that add to a sense of realism, the plot moves like a flowing river. By the end, you will have gasped, laughed, cheered, and maybe cried with our main character Cleo.
The film is so well shot and edited. It lingers and moves deliberately, always letting you soak in what it wants to show you. Even when things get tense with the odd natural disaster or near death experience, it never feels like it needs to move faster and get a reaction out of you. Plenty of times I got lost in the scenery and forgot about the characters on the screen. I felt like a trespasser into Cleo's life at times. In a pivotal scene in a movie theater, I started watching the movie the characters are supposed to watch and lost track of the conversation they had and I felt like I was intruding on their business. It felt like I was in the theater with them, sneaking bits if their conversation as if I was eavesdropping on them. To say the least, this film immersed me in its world so well. The sound design is minimal and adds to the realism. With the odd bit of song being sung or being played over the radio, but never as background music. The bare sound adds to the realistic atmosphere created and really lets the film breathe at times.
This is a great film and definitely one I'll have to watch again soon. It was funny, tragic, and beautiful, just like how real life can be.
The story follows a maid in Mexico City who tends to a well-off family and her experiences with them and the other people in her life. Through beautiful shot composition that add to a sense of realism, the plot moves like a flowing river. By the end, you will have gasped, laughed, cheered, and maybe cried with our main character Cleo.
The film is so well shot and edited. It lingers and moves deliberately, always letting you soak in what it wants to show you. Even when things get tense with the odd natural disaster or near death experience, it never feels like it needs to move faster and get a reaction out of you. Plenty of times I got lost in the scenery and forgot about the characters on the screen. I felt like a trespasser into Cleo's life at times. In a pivotal scene in a movie theater, I started watching the movie the characters are supposed to watch and lost track of the conversation they had and I felt like I was intruding on their business. It felt like I was in the theater with them, sneaking bits if their conversation as if I was eavesdropping on them. To say the least, this film immersed me in its world so well. The sound design is minimal and adds to the realism. With the odd bit of song being sung or being played over the radio, but never as background music. The bare sound adds to the realistic atmosphere created and really lets the film breathe at times.
This is a great film and definitely one I'll have to watch again soon. It was funny, tragic, and beautiful, just like how real life can be.
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