영화 <로마>: 멕시코 사회에 내재된 인종주의

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the racism and social condition of the indigenous people represented in the film "Roma" (2018) by the Mexican director Alfonso Curarón. The director, through the character Cleo, an indigenous woman of lower social class, openly displays racial, social and sexual discrimination that exists in Mexican society. In addition, the film in which no character problematizes the living conditions of domestic workers shows that Mexicans naturally and (un)consciously internalized racial and sociocultural discrimination based on racial difference. In this way, the film, through Sofía''s family as a miscocosm of Mexico, configures the character Cleo as a being included exclusively in Mexican society. In this sense, the movie would be the most controversial work that has opened the contentious debate about racism in Mexico, which has been denied throughout the Mexican history.