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 important main character and she stands out the most in the movie. She is a very talented young lady. In her family, she has the best cooking skills beside Nacha, who knows about all the recipes in the family. Since she was baby, Nacha always took care of her because Tita’s mother doesn’t have breast milk that she can feed on Tita. Also, her mother has a hard time showing her emotions to her surrounding after her husband died from heart attack. The death of Elena’s love of her life, she became a cold-hearted person. Because of how Elena behave around the family after her husband passed away, Tita doesn’t have anyone to turn to when she needed her mother. Since then, Tita gives all her passion into cooking. When Tita cooks, she put all her might in her cooking which transfer her feelings as well. For example, when Pedro gave her flower and put the flower petals into her cooking, everyone who consumed her cooking become horny. Also, when she bakes cake for her sister wedding, her tears fall into the cake, and whoever ate the cake receive the same symptoms of sadness that she felt because Pedro was married to her sister. Furthermore, the love that Tita has in her life is the motivation of her. Unlike her mother, Elena, Tita is strong with all the …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