"Let the Chocolate Boil Like Water" (also translated as "Love for Chocolate") is a Mexican movie that has a lot to do with Mexican food. Almost every scene either contains food or takes place in the kitchen.

This movie is adapted from the novel of the same name by female writer Laura Esquivel. Her book can be regarded as a women's novel in the Latin American magical realism tradition. It uses a recipe passed down from the great aunt to tell the legend of the great aunt and also the life of women.

Each chapter of the novel begins with a recipe, and there is a story in each dish. Each dish also reflects different experiences in women's life: love, desire, pregnancy, illness, motherhood, and the supernatural.

Of course, it also became a big exhibition of Mexican food.

The beginning of the video goes straight to the point.

In the kitchen, a woman cuts onions, and the tears she shed while cutting onions lead to the heroine Tita. It was her mother who burst into tears when she was cutting onions, and she was born in a big case in the kitchen!

Food, women, and magic are all three key points of the film.

Since Tita was born in this way, she naturally had an inseparable relationship with the kitchen. She grew up with the nanny in the kitchen. She was not only a good cook, but also a good cook with magic.

Dita is a good cook and is often asked how she makes dishes so delicious. Her answer is always: with love!

When love came, under the gaze of her lover, Tita said in her inner monologue that she was like dough that had just been thrown into the frying pan. Every pore was expanding, including her heart, belly, breasts... but her love was stopped by her mother.

Because her family has a tradition that people don’t understand, that is, the younger daughter cannot get married to serve her mother.

It turns out that Tita's suitor married her sister in order to be close to her.

At the wedding banquet, Tita baked a cake mixed with her tears of sadness. Everyone who ate it remembered their lost love and cried endlessly from grief.

The next dish is all about lust.

Tita's lover Pedro is now her brother-in-law.

One day, he gave her a bouquet of roses in public to thank her for cooking delicious food for the family.

Tita added erotic roses to the dish and made a dish of "quail in rose sauce". The two people who could not be together experienced erotic intercourse through this dish!

And Dita's second sister was so excited after eating this dish that she ran out to take a shower.

When there was a war and the bathroom was on fire, she ran around naked, and the leader of the revolutionary army also followed the incense.

The second sister actually got on her horse and eloped away, which was a complete legend.

Tita's love could not be realized, and she was tortured by her mother, and finally fell ill.

She was taken to the home of a doctor who took a liking to her.

A Mexican doctor lives in a city on the border of the United States and Mexico. He takes good care of Tita, but the American food cooked by the family chef is extremely unpalatable.

Finally, Tita's maid Chen Cha showed up and made a bowl of beef broth to help Tita recover.

According to Chen Cha, clear soup buns can cure all diseases, whether physical or mental.

Food is indispensable without fire, and Tita's love finally burned into a fire, and she left embracing her lover.

There is only one cookbook left, recording the story of her joys and sorrows.

The magical reality of Latin America is no exception when it comes to food.

Both novels and movies try to use food as a guide to reflect women's experience.

Traditionally, women’s experience cannot be separated from the kitchen, so why not create a legacy for them with recipes?

Strawberry and Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate, Cuba, 1994, director Thomas G. Alia) A gay strawberry ice cream in Cuba is pink.

Pink is the color that represents gays.

One day in the late 1970s, David, a student at the University of Havana, was eating chocolate ice cream at an outdoor restaurant.

A man came and sat across from him, eating strawberry ice cream and chatting with him.

David was an obedient member of the Communist Youth League and had no interest in gays, but he couldn't resist the temptation of the man Elisa Llosa and other writers' banned books, so he went to his house to pick up the books.

It turns out that the man named Diego is a gay artist, and his home is full of "poisonous weeds."

Diego played Callas' music for David and invited David to drink Indian milk tea with exquisite porcelain. In short, everything that the Cuban revolution rejected is here.

When David came to Diego's place again, he listened to piano music and drank Johnny Walker whiskey.

Inspired by Diego, David began to break through the taboos of official ideology and started writing novels.

However, no matter how much elegant tea and passionate wine Diego treated David to, he liberated David's mind, but he did not turn David into a "comrade."

Diego was very noble and selfless, and became good friends with David. When he heard that David was lost in love with his girlfriend and had no sexual experience, he asked his neighbor Nancy for help - Nancy was a middle-aged woman who committed suicide when she fell in love.

Diego copied the meal described in the novel by Cuban writer La Zema and entertained David and Nancy, which was a good thing for them.

However, Diego eventually could not be accepted in Cuban society and had no choice but to leave Cuba.

Two friends went to the outdoor restaurant to eat ice cream again.

David exchanged strawberry ice cream for Diego and joked with Diego in a good-natured manner.

Diego said, you are so beautiful, the only problem is that you are not gay.

David smiled and said: No one is perfect - a famous line from Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot", which is just right and funny here.