Extended Reading
  • Mandy 2022-04-24 07:01:18

    I didn't understand the original text without subtitles. Can't rate. I don't understand the rhythm of old movies...and then I finally understand what magic realism is...there are countless highlights orz

  • Roscoe 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    Latin America is so full of magical realism that even making the heroine look like a sex-turned Gyllenhaal becomes magical. In this movie, one of the four daughters of a feudal female farmer died after eating a meal full of sadness made by her sister; the other was ignited by the passion in her sister's dishes, attracted soldiers and ruffians and became a generation of heroines after being kidnapped; A lover who was married to his sister by his mother's order finally died of depression and died of a digestive tract disease. After his death, he continued to fart; the last one was the heroine. The heroine remembered the legend of her ex-fiancé about matches, kept eating matches and wanted to see her lover again, and finally burned down with her house. Ten or twenty years ago, the heroine's mother was definitely a representative of feudal ethics and inhumanity. Now, in this environment of economic downturn, people spontaneously seek stability in everything. Instead, she manages the farm as a widow and pulls her daughter, and has the courage to hold a gun in front of foreign enemies. The defiant (and failed) side is admirable.

Like Water for Chocolate quotes

  • Chencha: Don't do that, my child. They are like the devil. They say that one look from them and you get pregnant.

  • Bisnieta: [voiceover] She invaded Pedro's body voluptuously, ardently fragrant, and utterly sensual. It seemed they had discovered a new code of communication, and Tita was the transmitter, Pedro the receiver, and Gertrudis was the lucky one, within whom this sexual relation was synthesized through food.