What a movie! I will state that this might me a classic fairy tale that I could be watching over and over again in the future. I do not know where even to begin talking about this movie, it is so congested with tradition, feelings, life lessons and humor. It definitely reminded me of one of the fairy tale that I used to read when I was a little girl. I have never heard of Magic Realism before, but glad to discover this genre of art and looking forward watching many more films in this style.
There was a definite message to this film – believe in true love. The touch of Magic Realism in this love story gives you hope and courage to stay strong in your beliefs, in Tita’s case: her dream eventually came true. I can easily see how this art form started: people want to believe in miracles to help them get through every day living, to create hope so they can get through tough situations. In Tita’s case, her life at home was miserable with her mother being so devilishly cruel and unfair, so the opposite of this repressed life was her dream world and reality merger that we saw in the film.
A great example of Magic realism in traditions was food. We all heard the stories of somebody’s (usually they already dead, so they would not compromise your story) mouth melting and legendary cooking. Sometimes if we really love that person we might embellish the story just so we can really prove the talent of the cook. So yes, the food magic powers in the film might have been also embellished, but we got the message: Tita was a wonderful and magical cook. The person telling us that story expressed her love for Tita using magic realism power.
All of the characters descriptions in the film were portrayed via magic realism. Their strongest qualities were super magnified to create the wonderful and unbelievably shocking world. Tita’s mother was very demanding and hateful and like all the evil characters in the fairy tales, she received the very awful death. Gertudis was the wild one of the sisters and to prove that, she gets kidnapped naked by an outlaw on the horse. Could you argue the wild aspect after this scene? And finally Tita – humble girl who was being mistreated by her repressing mother falls in love. Not just simple kind of love, but truly one in a lifetime love.
Magic Realism I am so glad you found me!
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Neringa, I agree that this film was hard to find a starting point. There was so much in this film.I also will look for films that have a similar style. I also want my daughters to watch this film to.I want them to see how horrible Tita's mom and sister were. You are right to say one in a lifetime love. How many people do you think end up settling and not holding out for that one of a kind? Maybe thats why there is so much divorce in this country.I was glad that Tita won in the end to. It was to bad that their love was denied for so long that when they were finally together the passion lighted all the matches at once.
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