Roma Written and Directed by Alfonso Cuarón 2018;  Espectáculos Filmicos El Coyúl; 135 minutes

There is a lot to say about the movie Roma — about its plot, its aesthetic, social, and cultural implications, and about the subjectivity of our times, especially with regard to women.

The film centers on the life of Cleodegaria Gutierrez, an indigenous woman from Oaxaca who works for a bourgeois Mexican family. Cleo has a friend named Adela, who works at the same house and who also comes from Oaxaca. The family consists of Dr. Antonio, Mrs. Sofía, Grandma Teresa, Sofi, Paco, Toño, Pepe, and the dog, Borras.

There are different ways of approaching what is shown in this film about the situation of women. From the viewpoint of gender theory and feminist studies, workplace violence against Cleo and Adela is evident, as is the racism to which they are subjected. Domestic work and what is called “affective work” are radically devalued in our society to the detriment of female workers, and even more so if they are indigenous women.

Cleo suffers from various vulnerabilities: she is poor, an immigrant, and her work is underestimated both socially and in terms of her labor rights. But the film is also about another woman, Sofia, the children's mother. In a radically different economic and social situation than Cleo, Sofia also suffers, like the indigenous woman, although in a different way: she is the victim of gender violence from her volatile partner.

From a social point of view, gender and labor violence are added to the violence of coming from a place where another language is spoken. Cleo

and Adela speak Mixteco. Their status as indig