Maybe many people feel that the "Cinderella"-style love expression is a bit frivolous, and it is not enough to carry the magical realism style of Latin America. But, how can this movie just be so simple as love?
Just like the classic book "Burning Wilderness", under the words of peasants, life and death, and revolution, the huge span of time and space fully reflects the profound sense of Latin American national customs. Many people say that it is love, but in fact there is also the inheritance of the family, the breaking of outdated traditions of the country and individuals, the road of revolution, and the arrival of civilization. Of course, there is also the symbol of "America" at the end of the play, which is "reassuring" but will not choose a "third party" in the end.
This is probably the modern romance that belongs to a country, and finally belongs to the inheritance of tradition (always in love with Pedro). Our level, that is, a "white-haired girl".
And the food full of magic, the galloping horse, the long skirt, the ghost, the thunder and lightning, and the fire, also contain the earth-shattering emotional power in the implicit. This may be the soul of magic realism. Much like "Love in the Time of Cholera", this kind of love has a brutish vitality.
Alas, really fit and plump body. Who wouldn't love such a Latin American girl? Our love story, our "Liang Zhu", is still a little bit less of their wild vitality after all.
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