Water for Chocolate

Alfonso Arau's Like Water for Chocolate is a tragic love story. Tita de la Garza and Pedro are in love but are not allowed to marry because of a family tradition which bars the youngest daughter from marrying anyone until her mother has died and no longer needs the daughter to take care of her. Tita's sisters, Rosaura and Gertrudis, are allowed to marry and do so, Rosaura marrying Pedro who only marries her in order to be close to Tita. Unable to marry the man she loves or to fully express her emotions in any real way, Tita puts everything inside her into the food that she prepares for the family. Her unexpressed emotions appear to others in the form of grief, of passion, and of nurturing. After breaking free from her mother, Tita becomes romantically attached to another man but this fizzles after she and...
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