Like Water for Chocolate

It was very difficult to see how Tita was treated by her mother Elena. This movie reminded me a little of Cinderella only with an adult twist! The love connection that Pedro and Tita had was what every woman dreams of and the fact that they could not be together was heartbreaking,but seeing what Pedro was willing to do, by marrying Rosaura was so romantic in an odd way.

The way that Tita matured throughout the movie was so inspiritational because she at first was submissive to her mother and as the time had passed she began to stand up to her and do what she felt passion for and that was to be with Pedro despite what her mother had said. Her mother dying was a burden off of her shoulders as she was no longer having to be her mother's keeper. One can tell that even though Tita had come to disobey her mother she was never able to have the complete closure that she needed even though she may have felt as though she had.

The genre of Magical Realism came in to play many times throughout this movie. The use of the food that Tita had prepared and how it increased the sexual emotion of those that at it. Then there was the scene of Gertrudis being swept away by a Juan Alejandrez, we all would like to be swept away by a man in uniform, but I am not so sure how fun it would be while we were naked!
I feel the most powerful and liberating scene for Tita was when Elena, her mother, kept coming to her after she had passed away. Once Tita was able to tell her mother how she felt and to leave her alone it appeared to free Tita to continue on and express to those around how she felt, such as telling Pedro that she was pregnant, telling off Rosaura, and telling Dr. Brown that she could not marry him. Tita seeing and speaking to her dead mother was also an example of Magical Realism. The end of the movie was sad and happy at the same time. It was sad that Tita and Pedro both had to die, but we can all assume that they were finally at peace with no one standing in their way.