Like Water For Chocolate: A Delicious Movie
Have you ever seen a delicious movie, a movie that makes you hungry, but which at the same time is a love story? Like Water for Chocolate is a movie based on a novel with the same title, which has recipes, love and homemade remedies. Laura Esquivel wrote the book and her husband, Alfonso Arau, is the producer of the movie. In this movie food is one of the main characters. Food is the center of the movie where everyone in some way communicates. Not many movies are made with this characteristics and that it what makes this movie interesting and unique.
It is 1985, on a ranch on the Rio Grande Mexico, where Mama Elena is giving birth to a girl, Tita. Tita is born inside a kitchen on top of the kitchen table. Tita lives almost al her life in the kitchen. Mama Elena has 3 daughters Rosaura, Gertrudis and Tita, who is the youngest. Pedro, a young boy from the town, and Tita fall in love, so he asks Mama Elena for permission to marry Tita. However, according to the family tradition, the youngest daughter has to remain single because she has to take care of her mother until the mother dies, so he decides to marry Tita’s sister, Rosaura, so he can be close to Tita. Tita loves to cook and through the food she communicates emotions ands feeling to Pedro. After the get married, Rosaura has a baby boy, Roberto. After that Mama Elena makes Pedro, Rosaura and Roberto move to San Antonio, Texas, and after moving there, Roberto dies which drives Tita crazy, so she disobeys Mama Elena’s orders, and Mama Elena sends for Doctor Brown. Doctor Brown takes her to his house, and he takes care of her until she recovers her mind. Meanwhile, Dr. Brown falls in love with Tita and asks her to marry him, and now that she’s not living under Mama Elena’s orders, she accepts. Soon after, Mama Elena dies, and Tita, Pedro and Rosaura come back to the ranch.
Furthermore, Tita cancels her wedding with dr. brown because she is still in love with Pedro. It has been 22 years since Pedro first asked...
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