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I grew up in Latin America, so I guess I can give you some context about some of this stuff. I am not going to defend the entertainment value of the movie, because I personally found it pretty boring (I guess the voyeuristic value isn't there for me, having grown up in a similar environment). > It sets the tone for the movie’s aesthetic and hollows it out, reducing Cuarón’s worthwhile intentions and evident passions…
> If Cuarón's experience was always defined by a very simple interface (that of the "sirvienta" or "mucama"), then it's understandable that his version of her is a muted - one could say desaturated - version of the real person That's just rationalizing away the fact that the film's subject was poorly handled by the film's director. Someone else - and I'm not suggesting that has to be someone whose experiences more cl…
Well, I cried like a baby at the scene at the beach.