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INTERVIEW: ALFONSO CUARÓN
idea behind 'And Your Mother Too' had been knocking around for ten years. Why did you make it now?
Alfonso Cuarón: It was a combination of several things. My son is now a teenager so I had to watch all those American teen comedies. Films like American Pie are so hypocritical and moralistic - they have fun at their characters' expense and ridicule them. I was also searching for a new style. I felt I was becoming claustrophobic. My last two films were very subjective - you saw everything filtered through the perception of the main characters. I wanted to do something with a sense of objective distance, so we came up with the idea of the narrator. The story started to make sense when we decided that context would be as important as character. The narrator supplies context - often he talks about things that have nothing to do with the characters.
The narration has a melancholic drift - the voiceover draws our attention to things like fatal accidents.
You can't really enjoy life until you have a full awareness of death. We tend to have an awareness of death only when something critical happens, like the passing...