said that love is the most beautiful thing in the world, but things must be reversed . I have always believed that there are sins and fears behind the turning of love, and even love itself is a sin. Torture others also torture yourself, but you are willing. If it were me, I would say yes i do. Because nothing is better than love itself.
I watched "Chocolate of Love" for 2 hours on Monday afternoon. This is a middle time period. Compared with many of my favorite movies of 160min, it is short and the plot is still simple. In summary, they are just two people in love. Individuals were not able to be together at first, but never gave up the matter of loving each other. The main background of the story is the Mexican Revolution and the turmoil, the whole story advances in contradictions and struggles: the struggle between family traditions and love rebellion; the struggle between desire and ethics; even the struggle during the Mexican Civil War under the background.
Latin American films have a very significant feature, that is, they are full of magicalism. Among them, Mexico has another characteristic, that is, its food is famous all over the world. This is a movie that combines love and food, using wonderful techniques to use the expressive power of food. I don’t know if it’s the quality of the film source or the crowded classrooms are full of heat. Watching this movie itself is like running naked in tropical Mexico. The slightly whitish over-explosive lens seems to touch the warm and viscous tropical air. . It tells us that love does not need reason, and lust does not need to be suppressed.
The story begins with the birth of the third daughter of a rural family. Tita was rushed out of her mother's womb by tears. This is also the narration at the beginning of the story. "When you cut an onion, you will cry, but it is not because of sadness." Tita suddenly cried in the womb when her mother cut the onion, tears Most of the time the mother gave birth directly, this magical way of birth made her accompanied by special powers throughout her life: the power of cooking, the power of love, and the power of resistance. What she needs to fight against is her own destiny, the ancient tradition that caused it, and the concrete embodiment of this tradition, her mother. This is the image of an old nun who asked Tita as the youngest daughter not to marry and serve her when her husband died. Tita has two elder sisters. The eldest sister is as cold and boring as a mother and abides by the stereotypes. The second sister is indeed the best representative of the culture of the Mexican region-bold and rebellious. Under such extremes, it is the youngest Tita, who is bold in his heart and obeys his strict mother everywhere.
Such character setting is itself a kind of contradiction and struggle. If the mother and the accompanying eldest sister are rusty old traditions, and the second sister is the unrestrained new born diamond sooner or later, then Tita is the most cruel and beautiful diamonds and rust. She has been contradicting all her life, she and love and her mother, Her desires and her ethics, what she wants to do and what she should do. This kind of contradiction is as familiar as two partners split from oneself, coexisting intimately in one body. Then they finally united in the way they could, and when the soul and body reached the summit together, his soul finally reached another world.
I love this movie so much, because it presents the relationship between true lust and love, the joy of thought and body. If you have loved it, you will understand that you want to give everything you have to one person.
Food is the most tempting and magical part of this movie.
When Tita loved him, he married Tita’s eldest sister in order to get close to her. Tita's tears of unknown truth fell on the cake. All the guests of the banquet felt the great sadness of longing for love with their taste buds. A group of people lay on the riverbank. Is the comic scene of collective vomiting just like Mexican humor? After he told Tita the truth, the quail sauce made by Tita was covered with rose petals, and it was so delicious that the whole family had a meal and had an orgasm. Well, the literary point of view is that the rose-scented sauce flows from the throat into the stomach and diffuses the aroma. As if soft lips, firm chest, and smooth skin, Tita ran into him in this way and occupied him. They looked at each other amidst the comfort of food, which was the final sublimation climax. This was not only a private ceremony for the two of them, but even the second sister felt this strong desire, so that the bathroom burned in the shower after the meal, and she ran naked to the distant wasteland, the cowboy who came to find incense. Putting on her horseback, she started her own wandering around the world. This is the love that should belong to the second sister. When he and his eldest sister gave birth to a daughter for family responsibilities, tita somehow got milk and became the only designated brand for the child. The magical realism of the Latin American people is really ideal. With a child, Tita, he has one of the few opportunities for normal contact, even if this occasional contact has brought a clear shape of the chest, the temperature of the palms on it, late at night The deep kiss under the outdoor corner, after all, could not resist a word from the power of a feudal autocratic family.
This old woman is well versed in world affairs. I always feel that the person who knows Tita best is not the bold, active and courageous second sister, she does not understand Tita's pain and tolerance. But the strong and arbitrary old woman actually understands that Tita discovered her secret after her death, "This is a woman who has never received true love in her life." But she let her pain reappear yesterday, let alone her own With her own little daughter, she told the world in this way and also told herself that temperance and desire to act in accordance with tradition is king. Her self-deception also filled her with shadows from the role of tragedy maker.
A doctor who appeared only once in the first half of the episode began to appear in Tita's life when Tita finally broke out from the torture of the old woman and became confused. During the period of Tita's mental breakdown, he has been taking good care of him, but it is easy to know how he behaves. Because this is gratitude, not love, and the act of repaying gratitude together because of gratitude does not qualify as love. The doctor once said, “Each of us has a box of matches in our hearts when we are born, but we can’t light it by ourselves. In the laboratory, we need oxygen and candles to support the combustion. But as far as people are concerned, oxygen must come from a lover’s breath, anything. It can be a candle, a melody, a word, a caress, a sound...anything is fine, it pulls the trigger to light a match, and when a match is lit, we will be immersed in this strong emotion Everyone has to find out what can pull the heartstrings to make him alive, because what feeds the soul is the ignition of matches. If it can’t be ignited, our matchbox will get damp and we won’t even be able to light one. But if This feeling is too strong, and all the matches will be burnt at once. At this time, people will see the light in the dark. This is God's call. This is the time to leave."
Tita is already preparing to talk to the doctor. When the wedding was held, he and he accomplished what the two had been looking forward to for many years. This made Tita start to waver, one side is the doctor's steady and kindness, and the other side is her true love that never ends but is always drifting away.
After the camera gradually came out, it was the arrival of a new era of the refrigerator logo. In a blink of an eye, he and the elder sister’s child and the doctor’s child grew up and became married, and the eldest sister had died of illness. Only then did I realize that Tita still chose to be alone in accordance with the principle of love. Once again, tita's delicacies of love and lust let all the guests find a hidden and private place to release their desires after eating. Once again Mexican magic and humor.
In the last paragraph, at point g in the entire film, there is only one bed in a room full of candles. The small window above shows a little bit of starlight, which complements the flickering candlelight in the room. This is something similar to "The Da Vinci Code". "The ritual-like scene mentioned in ". In this scene, Tita and him finally took off their clothes and merged into one, no longer the darkness, nor the jealousy. They embraced each other peacefully and affectionately, deepening into each other. All the feelings and love accumulated for more than 20 years finally burned on this altar-like bed at this moment. "If this feeling is too strong, all the matches will be burnt at once. At this time, people will see the light in the dark. This is God's call. This is the time to leave." In such a narration In the middle, he walked towards the end of the bright Rongdao. Tita calmly wrapped a blanket on the two of them, and ate one match after another. All the love and hate that she had tolerated before, all the bitterness and joy since birth, turned into a raging fire at this moment.
In the bright Rongdao, there was a figure waiting for her, holding his hand, and returning to the place where everyone first came to the world.
They got love in a seemingly deformed way. Although there is suspicion, incest, and hurt in it, love always attracts willing people into the fire because of its beauty. Mexico uses its unrestrained and traditional mutual game, which is "crossing the border of morality, we walk through the forbidden zone of love", but this is not "the illusion of enjoying happiness, misunderstanding the meaning of happiness." Love is beautiful by itself, Not bound to the mutual control between lovers, not succumbing to the taboos of social traditions. This is what the origin of love looks like. As the world, as long as we can possess a mask of this origin, it is enough.
Type in "Chocolate", the most often found is the Johnny depp version. Although I love him so much, I can't top him first. In this regard, some people explained it well: Hollywood also has chocolate, but most of it is chocolate produced by mechanization, and everyone enjoys it as an equal. The aroma wafting from the Mexican home kitchen may be even more peculiar.
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