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Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, director of "Y tu mamá también" and "Gravedad", expressed his concern about the situation experienced by the caravan of migrants during its passage through Mexico.
A few hours after the premiere in Mexico City of "Roma", his latest film, the Oscar winner lamented the racist and discriminatory remarks about the Central Americans, because "they are identical to those of (Donald ) Trump on the Mexicans, that it is wrong to illegally pass, criminalize them, accuse them of rapists, murderers. "
The director, screenwriter and film producer argued that, culturally, it seems unacceptable for Mexican society to accept that it has a huge problem called racism ", where the high percentage is not the minority but the majority.
"There is a white middle class that says: in Mexico, there are no racists, there are classists, as if this comment justified the other, when the classism is as scary as the racism, "he said.
And, he said, the two are closely related, although this problem exists not only in Mexico, but worldwide. "You can even see it in Europe, but in Mexico there is an attitude that exempts us from this problem, from these attitudes."
The caravan of migrants, composed of Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadorians and Ecuadorians, entered Mexico on October 19 in order to reach the United States.
In the film "Roma", Alfonso Cuarón talks about the discrimination suffered by two women from the Mixtec region when they arrive in the Mexican capital.
The film is a living representation of domestic conflict and social hierarchy in the midst of political turmoil in Mexico in the 1970s.
The award-winning director visits Morelia with his team for the creation of this work, based on memories of his childhood at both family and social levels.
Among the anecdotes about the emotions aroused by the filming, he said: "This is the first film in which I do not speak to anyone, because this tool was my own memory, they spent months and months studying my memories then compare them and share them with my nanny (Libo) to feed them.
"Especially parts that I did not know and which are for me memories in the context of the family bubble.What was a great discovery was the social life outside this bubble, where I fell twenty years brutally because you do not often know the people you love the most, "he said.
In this sense, he mentioned that he was unaware of the flaws with which he wore his lullaby and "in addition to that with an indigenous baggage in a country where this is scorned".
The film follows closely "Cleo", a young housekeeper of Mixtec origin, and her friend "Adela", who work for a family about to part.
Yaritza Aparicio, who plays the character of "Cleo", said that she went to the cast of Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, to accompany her sister, who wanted to know what it was. she has repented.
"Then my family refused to attend the second casting, but they gave me the opportunity to accompany my mother, because the trafficking of women is very common in our communities," she said. he declares.
Aparicio, like her friend Nancy García, did not know who Cuarón was and they did not feel obliged to talk to her at the time of the selection.
"Alfonso has a lot of quality, he gives you confidence like he's your friend all the time," said Aparicio, who will accompany the filmmaker and the rest of the cast tonight on the red carpet of his first in Mexico, as part of the 16th edition of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM).
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