I watched a little more of Like Water for Chocolate after we watched clips in class, and I liked it a lot more than I expected to! The more banal parts of the movie definitely ground the strange things that we watched in class--overall, it felt a lot like real life. Days and years dragged on, and then something very strange would happen.
So that's what I ended up thinking about a great deal, the balance that the movie portrayed between everyday life and "happenings". For example, the clip that we saw in which Pedro gave Tita her flowers...that moment was every bit as dramatic as Getrudis riding off buck naked on the back of a revolutionary's horse. It was every bit as weighty because of the years preceding it, and the years that would follow. A married man giving flowers to his sister in law is a culmination of tensions between at least three people, and it's a catalyst for many more.
And that's how life is, really. The most mundane things turn out to be the most dramatic--little looks from someone you know well, an alteration in someone's usual cadence of speech or syntax.
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