Romance in the movie

In the movie mostly martha love is expressed in many different ways. In addition to the love being expressed in many different ways there are also different types of love between the different relationships that occur during the movie. One way love is being expressed is through the obvious way and that is food. Both martha and mario use food as a way to speak and show their love for others. For example when mario made food for martha this was his way of showing her that he loves her. When martha made food for her niece that was her way of showing her niece that she loved her. When her niece said she did not want to eat the food that martha made for her it was almost as if she was rejecting the love that martha was trying to give to her. The few different types of love that are shown in the movie are motherly love between martha and her niece, romantic love between martha and mario and family love between mario martha and the niece. The role of food in the movie is very interesting yet simple. The food or the cooking that martha does is really her only way she knows how to communicate with other people. All she really knows how to do is express her feelings through her cooking. Once someone does not like her cooking she either shuts down or gets really angry. You can see examples of these two events when she interacts with her niece and the one customer that does not like her food. Her life is like a recipe and she likes to follow that recipe. When something in that recipe does not go according to how its supposed to go then thats when martha begins to have a hard time.