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Like Water for Chocolate (film)

Updated: Apr 30, 2023


Como agua para chocolate


It is the perfect drama romance Mexican movie tv novel or in Spanish a telenovela to watch drinking Corona written by Laura Esquivel, inspired by the book same name published in 1989, which deals with the life of a woman (Tita), her love affairs and her relationship with her family, all related to the importance of cooking and the typical Mexican recipes of the time in which his life is set.

Plot:

Like Water for Chocolate tells the story of an impossible love: Tita, Mama Elena's youngest daughter, is destined to remain single to care for her mother until she dies. Orphaned at two days old, Tita is raised by Nacha, the house cook, which makes her an extraordinary connoisseur of food. Aunty, since childhood, she has shown great creative gifts, intelligence, as well as a sweet and at the same time firm character, which allows her to stand out in everything she does; however, her mother represses all her initiatives and, among them, that of getting married. With Pedro, whom she passionately loves. Pedro himself has declared his love for her, but Mama Elena only offers him the marriage to Rosaura, Tita's older sister. He accepts just to be closer to Tita. When tradition prevents him from marrying the man she loves a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking formally, it stands out for the presence of characteristics typical of Hispanic American magical realism and for the plastic capacity of the author. The narrator dominates and surpasses all the action as if it were a film director.


After watching the movie drinking one corona and a half, and also ate half a chocolate easter bony.


The movie was released in 1992-04-6

After witching second time for to write this critique drinking try beers, so I can enjoyed even more.

Author


Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City in 1950. Teacher and specialist inchildren's theater, before writing her first novel Like Water for Chocolate, she had already had the opportunity to compose numerous film scripts. In 1989 she got a big success with this first publication, which was made into a film by director Alfonso Arau, Starting from the script written by Laura Esquivel herself. The story of a love story from the stoves of a kitchen conquered the public and the critics who spoke, not just about realism magical, but of the magic of literature or magical literature when referring to this work. Those, the first ideas that he noted in the work that made him famous, Like Water for Chocolate, return to appearing in Íntimas succulencias (1998), a compilation of short stories that accompany recipes kitchen, where the author insists on her maxim that "You are what you eat, with whom eat and how you eat it"

"Like Water for Chocolate" means to be at a boiling point, boiling, as the water must be to make thechocolate:“Tita was like water for chocolate, because she was boiling with rage, she felt bad and angry with Rosaura, because she is, she wanted her daughter to take care of her until she died. Tita couldn't believe that her sister forced her daughter to do it,the same thing they did to her, ruining her life. That's why she wanted to live long enough, to try to prevent her sister from continuing to carry out that family tradition, the one that had made her suffer for so long.All her life. Tita was also disturbed by Pedro's behavior, who was jealous knowing that she

she would marry John, she was in an upset mood."




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