Roma | Film Review
Hey Guys x Here's a film that's probably going to win more than a few Oscars, and as it's on Netflix, I'm pretty sure this will be the first Oscar win for a Netflix original movie, which would be really cool. The film is about a woman called Cleo who is a housekeeper/maid for an upper-middle-class family in Mexico City, including the many challenges she faces, and the way that her life tends to parallel the life of her boss, Sofia. As you can tell from the description, the story isn't complicated or hard to understand - it's what's done with this simple premise that makes it stand out amongst other nominated films. First of all, the pace of the film's opening mirrors the slowness, repetition and perhaps tedium of Cleo's domestic work - a pace that is consistent throughout the film. It is particularly interesting to see the life of a wealthy family through the eyes of 'the help' - bringing the background to the foreground. In a lot...