The movie, “Like water for chocolate” was published in 1992 by Alfonso Arau. The movie is about the happenings the Tita’s life, who is the youngest daughter in her family, which makes Tita cannot get marry; therefore, she has to take care of the whole family until her mother die. The food is the vital highlight of the movie, and there are many connections among the food, emotions, lust and desire via Tita’s cooking. The director uses various foods to determine the culture and the environment of Mexico, the social restrictions and imprisonment, and the yearning for love.

Onion expresses Tita’s tragedy of life, and directly results via Tita’s depression. Meanwhile, onion also shows the injustice society that influences her deeply. It is harsh for Tita to prepare the wedding meal for Pedro, her lover, with her own older sister, Rosaura. It declares the conlict that Tita’s advantage of cooking is used for what she does not like the most. While Tita is making the wedding cake, her tears drip into the flour of the cake. It implies the acknowledgement of people who ate that cake that they cannot stop crying and vomiting. The Quail in Rose Petal Sauce is also used as metaphor to describe the passion of her love to Pedro. Her deep love towards Pedro also implies via when her breasts produces milk, even though Tita is not pregnant. However, her tragedy comes by seeing her breasts produce the milk to feed Pedro’s child. Meanwhile, the child only drinks the breast milk of Tita; therefore, Mama Elena asks Pedro and Rosaura leave the farm, and go to Texas, and tries to keep the child away from Tita. This implies the unfair conception of people at that period that they try to ignore other feelings and go against what is supposed to be, for example, true love as well as the true precious motherhood.

The name of movie itself. Like Water for Chocolate in Spanish is “como agua para chocolate” which mean the emotion of the one on the border of boiling over. The title implies the extreme depression of Tita after going through several griefs and self-torments under this unfair society, which limits her ability of doing what she wants and desires to be.