Most people consider Like Water for Chocolate a love story. But that isn’t how I interpreted it. It’s a coming of age story, the narrator focuses on the growth of Tita the protagonist from child to adulthood. In both book and film, the primary setting is the De la Garza Ranch. Nearly all of the story’s action takes place there. And where we are introduced to every important character; each of their lives revolve around the ranch. Even when they are away, their main focus is the ranch; Pedro wanting to return to it to be near his love Tita again. And Tita declaring to Chencha that she’s never returning, until of course Mama Elena’s accident. The film did a great job mimicking the book, but it lacked important details that Laura Esquivel included
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She is the ideal conformist. She may disagree with Mama Elena’s wishes but won’t protest. She has no will of her own. Rosaura’s ideas about life came from what her mother told her they should be. She marries Pedro because that’s what Mama wanted her to do. She knew it was wrong and how much it’d hurt Tita but couldn’t go against Mama’s wishes. I enjoyed the way the movie represented Rosaura, she didn’t say much and her character always appeared desolate. In the film, the scene where Tita served rose petal sauce; we get clear the imagery of how the meal is making everyone feel. Tita’s sensual being entering their bodies threw food. Gertrudis begins opening layers of her clothing. It’s the sexual tension transferred through the food that presses her to leave the ranch. Pedro can feel his true love within him even Mama can feel the sensuality of them meal. Yet Rosaura can’t respond to it, the overwhelming emotions do nothing to her so she leaves the dinner table. Her character is empty, which is why she dies in such a revolting way, rotting from the inside out.
Until actually watching the film a third time I didn’t realize how selfish Pedro was. He only has personal ambitions, not realizing the negative affect that follows. He can’t get Tita directly, so he takes Rosaura in order to be near. Very sweet, but he doesn’t stop to think how Rosaura will feel knowing he doesn’t love her. Elena’s offers him two choices, …show more content…
And the men in the film are weak, insignificant and unaccomplished. The women of this story are who shape the lives of others. The female leads are both keepers and destroyers of tradition.
The significance of setting the film during the Mexican Revolution, was that it was a time of vast change, a break from traditions. As a nation was being liberated so was Tita in her own personal revolution.
Magical realism is used to emphasize the spirit of emotion and social interactions within the context of the normal day to day activities such as cooking and eating. To express a character’s emotion magical realism is used, offering a rare view on that characters world. Overstating certain plot points and ideas, for example Tita’s pregnancy; Mama Elena appears to her cursing the unborn child. Which can be considered a comic relief, adding balance to a stressful scene and some of the more depressing elements to the
She is the ideal conformist. She may disagree with Mama Elena’s wishes but won’t protest. She has no will of her own. Rosaura’s ideas about life came from what her mother told her they should be. She marries Pedro because that’s what Mama wanted her to do. She knew it was wrong and how much it’d hurt Tita but couldn’t go against Mama’s wishes. I enjoyed the way the movie represented Rosaura, she didn’t say much and her character always appeared desolate. In the film, the scene where Tita served rose petal sauce; we get clear the imagery of how the meal is making everyone feel. Tita’s sensual being entering their bodies threw food. Gertrudis begins opening layers of her clothing. It’s the sexual tension transferred through the food that presses her to leave the ranch. Pedro can feel his true love within him even Mama can feel the sensuality of them meal. Yet Rosaura can’t respond to it, the overwhelming emotions do nothing to her so she leaves the dinner table. Her character is empty, which is why she dies in such a revolting way, rotting from the inside out.
Until actually watching the film a third time I didn’t realize how selfish Pedro was. He only has personal ambitions, not realizing the negative affect that follows. He can’t get Tita directly, so he takes Rosaura in order to be near. Very sweet, but he doesn’t stop to think how Rosaura will feel knowing he doesn’t love her. Elena’s offers him two choices, …show more content…
And the men in the film are weak, insignificant and unaccomplished. The women of this story are who shape the lives of others. The female leads are both keepers and destroyers of tradition.
The significance of setting the film during the Mexican Revolution, was that it was a time of vast change, a break from traditions. As a nation was being liberated so was Tita in her own personal revolution.
Magical realism is used to emphasize the spirit of emotion and social interactions within the context of the normal day to day activities such as cooking and eating. To express a character’s emotion magical realism is used, offering a rare view on that characters world. Overstating certain plot points and ideas, for example Tita’s pregnancy; Mama Elena appears to her cursing the unborn child. Which can be considered a comic relief, adding balance to a stressful scene and some of the more depressing elements to the