关键词: 《罗马》, 具身化, 记忆真实, 母职情感, 沉默之爱, 影像建构

Abstract:

This paper examines Alfonso Cuarón’s film “Roma” to explore how autobiographical imagery reconstructs the experience of motherhood, moving beyond traditional symbolic and functional frameworks of maternal narratives. Through the character of Cleo, an indigenous domestic worker, the film embeds maternal affect within everyday labor, bodily rhythms, and spatial environments, creating a sensory practice that is palpable yet difficult to articulate. The analysis proceeds from three dimensions: autobiography and post-memory, bodily movements in daily care, and the audiovisual environment constructed through black-and-white cinematography and long takes. It argues that “Roma” uses highly stylized visual language and immersive sound design to disentangle motherhood from verbal and dramatic conventions. The film transforms it into an embodied, silent yet resilient emotional presence, thereby achieving an ethical and aesthetic reconstruction of maternal experience on screen.

Key words: Roma, Embodiment, Authenticity of Memory, Maternal Affect, Silent Love, Cinematic Construction