Como Agua Para Chocolate Analysis

In the movie called, “Como Agua para Chocolate,” the author, Laura Esquivel talked about passion and magical realism. In this period of time when she wrote the book, the author wanted to relief people’s worries on the Mexican Revolutionary war. This book was later made into a movie by director, Alfonso Arau, Esquivel’s former husband. This movie is about a girl name Tita who has magical realism, passionate about her lover, and how their tradition played out to be a problem for Tita and her lover. Before she was born, she cried from her mother’s womb. When she cooks, her feeling transfer through her cooking. Then, one day, she falls in love with Pedro. However, Tita cannot have a husband because according to her family tradition, she has to take care of her mother until she dies because Tita is the youngest daughter in the family. Moreover, Tita felt as if she never received any love from her mother, Elena because even though she obeyed her mother commands, her mother rough attitude never change for Tita. This movie shows the hardship that most Mexican’s families had to go through during the Mexican Revolutionary war. In this movie, Tita is one of the most …show more content…
In American’s culture, there is no such thing as ‘the youngest daughter can’t marry while her mother is alive.’ However, in this movie, it shows a lot of feminist side. For example, in this period of time, no woman has the power of being head of a household yet Elena was the head of their family after her husband died. She made all of the decision in the family and no one is brave enough to go against her. However, in reality, Mexicans were nothing like in the movie. Women do not have voices during this period of times. This shows that the author and the director of this movie were just trying make people escape from the reality, to make them feel