I enjoyed the film Like Water for Chocolate. I think that it showed how seriously the Spanish culture takes family traditions and how they are and important and respected part of their culture. They are recognized and acceptable in most families without question to if they are truly fair. I feel the traditions in this particular family were ridiculous and unrealistic to expect to be carried to. To expect a young girl to set her life on hold to care solely for her mother simply because she is the youngest is in my opinion a crazy tradition. It doesn’t give that child a chance to live and have her own life, but rather to be a slave to her mother. It is no wonder that in this family all the children leave that mother, because she treats her daughters like objects, rather than children that she actually loves and cares for. Even when the mother’s ghost returns to Tita, she does not mourn the thought that her mother has passed away and that she misses her. Rather, she wants even for her mother’s ghost to leave her alone because even from the afterlife her mother is once again trying to control her life.
I agree with you Jamie that hispanic families are super tight with one another, it almost seems strange to me how close they are with one another because it's not like that here in America. Like I posted in my blog that mother was like the wicked with from the west from the Wizard of Oz you might as well have painted her green and stuck a mole of her face, she was HORRIBLE! During the bath scene I really thought Tita was going to burn here with the iron, I was waiting for her to take her revenge upon her.
ReplyDeleteIt surprises me that after all that Tita was put threw with her witch mother and waiting on that poor sap Pedro she appeared to be happy for the most part cooking and taking care of her sisters. It did make me a little sad that Tita never had the change to bear her own children because she did so well her sisters.