Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como Agua The Chocolate ) is a 1992 Mexican film in the style of magical realism based on a popular novel, published in 1989 by a Mexican novelist first, Laura Esquivel. It earned ten Ariel Awards including Best Photos and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film became the most successful Spanish-language film ever released in the United States at the time. The film was selected as Mexico's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nomination.
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Plot
The movie opens with a young woman reading the recipe from a book. He starts telling the story of his aunt, Tita. Mama Elena is cooking in the kitchen with home cook, Nacha, when the water breaks. She gave birth at the kitchen table. Mama's husband Elena goes out to celebrate the birth of her daughter when she is told that his wife has been unfaithful to him. Surprised she suffered a heart attack and died. Mama Elena tells Nacha that she can no longer have children anymore and that her youngest child, Tita, will never marry but instead stay home to care for her until her death. The eldest daughter of Mama Elena Rosaura and Gertudis will be able to get married. As Tita grows, Nacha teaches all her responsibilities of managing the kitchen. In 1910 Tita has grown into a beautiful young woman and has fallen in love with a young man named Pedro. Pedro confesses his love for Tita and offers her hand in marriage. Tita told Mama Elena about Pedro, only for Mama Elena to aggressively strengthen Tita's permanent position at home. The next day Pedro arrived with his father to formally ask Mama Elena for Tita's wedding. Mama Elena explains the reason for not accepting the wedding preposal and instead offers Rosaura's hand. Pedro accepted the offer, Tita crushed, Gertrudis upset, and Rosaura eager to get married. While making a wedding cake with Nacha, the inconsolable Tita kept crying and her tears falling into cookie dough. After the wedding ceremony, Pedro tells Tita that he married Rosaura to be close to her. After seeing Tita and Pedro talking to each other, Mama Elena threatens Tita to get away from Pedro. Then, when the guests started eating the wedding cake, everyone was overwhelmed with grief at losing their true love and becoming physically ill. Mama Elena ran home to see a photo of the man who had an affair with her. Tita finds the dead Nacha holding the photo of her late husband.
Months later Rosaura became pregnant. Pedro gives Tita a bouquet of roses in front of Mama Elena and Rosaura. Mama Elena demands that Tita throw it away, but Tita uses a rose with quail sauce that night for dinner. After dinner, Pedro, Gertrudis, and Mama Elena are filled with sensual and romantic passion, and Rosaura becomes ill. After dinner, Pedro and Tita watch Gertrudis go with a rebel leader. Tita told Elena's mother that Gertrudis was kidnapped by the rebels. Believing that Gertrudis was now a broken woman, Mama Elena burned Gertrudis belongings and forbade everyone to name her. However, Tita secretly communicates with Gertrudis and sends her the rest of her belongings. Rosaura gave birth to a sickly son named Roberto. Personal tribe of Roberto nurse and his health showed improvement. Mama Elena becomes increasingly suspicious of Tita and Pedro's activities. Believe that Tita and Pedro cheated on Mama Elena sending Pedro and Rosaura to Texas. Without Tita's care, Roberto became ill and died. Chencha, a housemaid, told Tita and Mama Elena. Tita was destroyed and caused an explosion in Mama Elena. Mama Elena responded by hitting Tita in the face with a wooden spoon causing her nose to bleed. Tita runs into the attic of the house and stays there for a few days. Dr. John Brown, a family doctor, took Tita home to Texas to take care of him. Chencha visits Tita when she is healthy and Tita tells him that she will not return to Mama Elena. Dr. Brown is interested in Tita and proposes to her. Tita accepted her marriage proposal. Bandits stormed Mama Elena's house and attacked the servants. Chencha was raped and Mama Elena was murdered. Tita returns home to Mama Elena's funeral. When examining Mama Elena's belongings, Tita finds evidence of Mama Elena's past love story. It is implied that one of Tita's sisters is the result of an affair. Pedro and Rosaura are pregnant back for Mama Elena's funeral. Rosaura gave birth to a healthy baby girl named Esperanza. As a result Rosaura can not have any more children. Following the Rosaura family tradition stated that Esperanza will never marry, with anxious Tita and Pedro. After knowing Tita's involvement with Dr. Brown Pedro becomes jealous. Pedro sneaks into Tita's room and they make love for the first time. Tita becomes worried that she may be pregnant. He did not tell Pedro his worries. One night during Gertrudis' dinner party, which is now General in the rebellion, came home with the husband of Juan Alejandrez and his rebel group. Tita confessed at Gertrudis her worries. Gertrudis encourages Tita to tell Pedro. Pedro gets into the conversation and Tita is forced to tell her worries. Tita finds out that she is not pregnant and decides to continue her engagement with Dr. Brown. Pedro objected to this decision and threatened to tell Dr. Brown about their one night stand. Tita regretted telling Dr. Brown about his affair with Pedro and apologizes for hurting him. Dr. Brown accepts his apology and declares that he still wants to be with him but he will accept whatever decision he makes of their relationship. After being confronted by Rosaura about her affair with Pedro, Tita decides to stay in the family home to prevent Rosaura upholding the family tradition in Esperanza, ending her engagement with Dr. Brown. Sometime later Rosaura died of intestinal disease.
Years later Esperanza married Alex Brown, Dr. Brown. Tita and Pedro return to the family home together. When having sex Pedro had a heart attack and died. Feeling ruined, Tita commits suicide by swallowing a match. The room caught fire and fire spread throughout the property. The young woman who tells the story tells that she is the daughter of Esperanza. She reveals that when Esperanza returns home from her honeymoon to find the burning property to ashes she finds Tita's cookbook. The one he kept and passed on to his daughter.
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Character
- Lumi Cavazos as Tita
- Marco Leonardi as Pedro
- Regina TornÃÆ' Â © as Mama Elena
- Mario IvÃÆ'¡n MartÃÆ'nez as Doctor John Brown
- There is Carrasco as Nacha
- Yareli Arizmendi as Rosaura
- Claudette MaillÃÆ' Â © as Gertrudis
- Aranda Pillar as Chencha
- Farnesio de Bernal as Cura
- JoaquÃÆ'n Garrido as Sargento TreviÃÆ' Â ± o
- Rodolfo Arias as Juan AlejÃÆ'¡ndrez
- Margarita Isabel as Paquita Lobo
- Sandra Arau as Esperanza Muzquiz
- AndrÃÆ' Â © s GarcÃÆ'a Jr as Alex Brown
- Regino Herrera as NicolÃÆ'¡s
- Genaro Aguirre as Rosalio
- David Ostrosky as Juan de la Garza
- Bragida Alexander as Tia Mary
- Amado RamÃÆ'rez as Pedro's father
- Arcelia RamÃÆ'rere as the daughter of Esperanza,
- Socorro RodrÃÆ'guez as Paquita's friend
Themes
Gender: Gender roles and gender differences are important to the de la Garza family. This film complicates the role expected by the tradition of Tita, Getrudis, and Rosaura to be played. Tita, the mother-caregiver, breaks tradition; Gertrudis embodies the duality of men and women; and Rosaura, a traditional female rulers, failed to fulfill it. Rosaura is trying to be a traditional woman. He married his brother Tita, a true love, Pedro, and adopted the role of wife. His main job is to cook, clean, and care for his children. The problem is she can not cook, can not clean, and can not breastfeed her own baby. Next to bend the gender is Gertrudis, the descendant of the dark relationship between Mama Elena and her lover. We know early on that Gertrudis does not fit into prints like women. He is a tomboy, openly disagreeing with his mother and his traditional values. She pushes Tita to Pedro's court even though she's married to their sister. When Tita's emotions enter the rose petal plate she serves the family for dinner, Gertrudis eats and becomes so aroused that her body starts to steam. He ran to the latrine, burned it, and left the house behind a horse driven by a Mexican Revolutionary soldier. When Gertrudis mysteriously returns one night, we learn that he is a soldier who fought in the Revolution. Married to a man on a horse, he now orders his husband's army. Tita is the opposite of her sister. She is the cook and the family cook. Everyone loves his cooking and Tita miraculously serves as a baby nurse Rosaura, because Rosaura can not produce milk. (When Pedro and Rosaura moved out, the baby died because Rosaura could not take care of him.) Different gender roles give the depth and significance of each character, highlighting the differences that occur in each sister. In doing so, the film features powerful women who break the barriers and redefine what it means to be a woman.
Tradition is the center of this movie. Tita, Gertrudis and the Mexican Revolution itself all against it. The main conflict of the film is a family tradition that forbids the youngest daughter from marrying so that she will be free to take care of her mother. This requirement formed a battle between Tita and her mother, Mama Elena. Tita struggles to live her own life; Mama Elena had a fight to keep Tita at home. So intense was Mama Elena's desire to uphold the tradition that she ordered her eldest daughter, Rosaura, to marry Pedro, a true love of Tita. Gertrudis, the middle child, and the descendant of the dark relationship between Mama Elena and her boyfriend, escaped from home and joined those who struggled to end the dictatorship and corruption that plagued Mexican commoners. Bored with the tradition that only wealthy landowners possess wealth and power, people rebel, fighting for workers on the ground. The battle of Gertrudis against the government is parallel to the battle between Tita and Elena. Both are fighting for change. In the war, Gertrudis became the leader of an all-male rebel group. The two men listened and respected him. Gertrudis challenges tradition and becomes a successful leader. Tita's challenge to tradition will also work and marks a successful change for Mexico.
Breaking Tradition: While tradition works well to help pass family habits or even cultural habits, often traditions can often be seen negatively and tear families and communities apart because it can persecute people in a society that deviate from tradition. Mexican culture has in fact long been declared this forced marriage rule in which women's opinions are left unaccepted, and as a result these traditions lead to the persecution of women. The persecution also occurs in the family of de la Garza where family tradition prevents the main character, Tita, from marrying Pedro because of the rule that the second daughter should not marry. Thus, breaking this particular tradition is the main theme in the film. One way this is represented in the film is through Mama Elena's character as an oppressive force and tyranny for Tita. His character shows how corrupt traditions such as forced marriages prevent other people and tear groups apart as Mama Elena did to Tita to prevent her from marrying Pedro. However, with the help of Tita's magical cuisine that ultimately destroys a tradition-free family, Tita and his sister Gertrudis not only break the gender barriers and roles in their society but also help build traditions to begin treating each other. same.
Location filming
- Ciudad AcuÃÆ' Â ± a, Mexico
- Eagle Pass, Texas
- Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico
Reception
Like Water for Chocolate received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 91% approval rating, based on 32 reviews, and an average rating of 7.5/10.
The American release of the film is quite short of the original version of Mexico. In the original release, you see the main character Tita returning home to care for her dying mother; in the American release, this complete sequence is removed and otherwise Tita just goes home for her mother's funeral.
Awards
Ariel Awards
The Ariel Awards are awarded annually by the Mexican Academy of Film and Sciences in Mexico. Como Agua The Chocolate received ten awards from 14 nominations.
Golden Globe Awards
See also
- List submissions to the 65th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Mexican language submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
- Como agua para chocolate on IMDb
- Like Water for Chocolate in Box Office Mojo
- Like Water for Chocolate at Rotten Tomatoes
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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