Roma (2018)

Yalitza Aparicio: Cleo

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• Cleo : I like being dead.

• Cleo : I didn't want her.

  Sra. Sofía : What?

  Cleo : I didn't want her.

  Sra. Sofía : They're ok.

  Cleo : I didn't want her to be born.

  Sra. Sofía : We love you so much, Cleo. Right?

  Cleo : Poor little thing.

• Pepe : When I was older, I used to be a sailor. But I drowned in a storm. The waves were huge!

  Cleo : [Looking with concern at the water]  Sofi! Paco! Near the shore!

  Pepe : It was dark and there was lightning and I didn't know how to swim.

• Cleo : I'm pregnant.

  Fermín : What's it to me?

  Cleo : It's that... the little one's yours.

  Fermín : No fucking way.

  Cleo : I swear it is.

  Fermín : I told you, no fucking way! And if you don't want me to beat the shit out of you and your "little one," don't ever say it again, and don't ever come looking for me again!

  [Executes a martial arts move and emits a martial scream] 

  Fermín : Fucking servant!

• Paco : So that kid was throwing water balloons at cars that were driving by. Then an army jeep drove by, the kid throws a balloon at it, the soldier gets mad, he gets out and shoots him.

  Cleo : Oh God! Is he OK?

  Paco : He shot him in the head. He's dead.

  Cleo : How awful!

• Benita : [Looking at the dogs' heads mounted on the wall]  They're all the dogs that lived here. Look. That there was Pirata. He died in 1911. Do you remember Canela?

  Cleo : Yes, where is she?

  Benita : Look at her. She died last summer. They say she ate a poisoned rat. But I'm sure it was the villagers angry with Don Jose over the land.