The Positive Function of Magic Realism in the Film Like Water For Chocolate
...tion of the space, this paper only chooses one literature term to analysis one film. “Casting a brick to attract jade” is an idiom that summarizes the purpose of this paper. What audiences got from a film is not only the understanding of the plot, but also something invaluable if they can understand the deep meaning of a film. In the following, the paper will let the reader know an excellent film that have come to be associated with the genre known as “magic realism,” in which realistic details, characters, plots, and effects are intermingled with elements of the supernatural, the unexplainable, and the hallucinatory. Originally published in 1990, Like Water for Chocolate won Laura Esquivel inter-national acclaim. The film based on the book, with a screenplay by Laura Esquivel, swept the Ariel awards of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture, winning eleven in all, and went on to become the largest grossing foreign film ever released in the United States. In 1994, Like Water for Chocolate won the prestigious ABBY award, which is given annually by the American Bookseller Association to the book the members of the organization most enjoy hand-selling. The success of this film is not just by accident. The film not only presents an unusual story of Latin America, but also shows a strange narrative style—it relies on “magic realism”. We can learn so many element of magic realism from this film, and then understanding the meaning of magic realism deeply. In the past ten years, in many countri...