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1. I love black and white. We just saw Cold War in a theatre--also black and white, and new. It feels like the actual "cinema" of my youth.
2. Cleo was lovable.
3. Yes, we love you, Cleo, but don't you dare sit and laugh at the television for two minutes. Nope, get up and get the doctor some tea. Wife not lovable.
4. Two abandoned women with children to take care of, living under the same roof. Clear contrast between the white privileged one and the indigenous woman. Wealthy mom could have fits, take it out on the kids and Cleo, get drunk, and wreck the car. Cleo had to just stay strong and quiet and keep cleaning up after the dog and everyone else.
5. Fermín was a vermin. Love a good villain.
6. Scene in furniture store great--interesting to refresh myself on history afterwards. I was young and pretty oblivious to the events in Mexico in 1971, but the power structure hasn't changed and is paralleled in current events, with the wealthy and the poor still playing their roles.
7. The care given by the family's mother and grandmother were lovely, except that when it was check-in time at the hospital and all the grandmother knew were first and last names.
8. Still birth profound--then revealed complexity later. Oh, and the doctor dad showing up and being the same coward he's always been was good.
9. Beach scene--again, wealthy mom can just run off to we don't know where and expect Cleo, who can't swim and whose instructions the children regularly ignore, is left to manage. Cleo is a hero. Mom showed no signs of regret about creating the situation.
10. They get home and everyone collapses post-vacation. Except for Cleo, who has to just keep on moving, doing the laundry, or ? on the roof.

I do see what the critics are saying about it being from the point of view of the white wealthy family member--but since that's what it actually was, why is that a criticism? It would be interesting to see exactly the same story from Cleo's perspective; that's not what this movie was.

Loved it. Watched it alone and will watch again with hubby.