Roma

lives are centred around their reality, while navigating their little self time of their life, along with social class, inequality on a daily basis and political turmoil around them. And the story also comes from the personal growing experiences of Alfonso Cuarón , so it makes it much more realistic and subtle. There is a scene where the cloe mops the floor, with the reflection of an airplane passing overhead (symbolizing the poor versus the rich), is one of the beautiful shots you will see with great metaphor and yet so simple frame of everyday life. Cuaron doesn't try to frame a narrative that rich people are bad or vise versa, he just wanted to portray the part of life which had significant effect on him. And he leaves the assumptions and judgments on us. Alfonso Cuarón in an interview said he wasn't concerned about the narrative, he was concerned about the memory of his life, reason being this film based on his own memories growing up. He wanted to get those spaces, textures, and frames together which would interweave a cinematic narrative. And he got those frames so perfectly with aesthetic beauty, its meticulousness, and its touches of neorealism make it an authentic form of storytelling. He reconstructed his memories, it was all about showing specific moments of his life, down to the smallest detail. And the film achieved that effortlessly.