Dr. McNichols Discussion

 Dr. McNichols talked about many different things that are related to that of the mexican culture. She talked about the history of mexico, how the women of mexico used to be treated, magical realism and the food of the mexican culture. Her talk is related to our film and topic because our film takes place in Mexico and contains a lot of mexican culture and history within it. Also our film is in the style of magical realism. Our film is taking place within the 1900s which plays a huge part in the plot and what happens to the characters and what they are talking about within the film. I found this film to be very interesting, because when  Dr. McNichols was talking about how the women were being mistreated. I thought it was the men of the world mistreating them. In reality or at least within the movie it was the mother of the daughter mistreating her. The mother was only doing this because she was keeping up with the culture of what she is used to. I thought it was pretty cruel that just because she was the last born daughter of the family she wasn't able to marry the love of her life. What made matters worse was the fact that her sister was the one that married the love of her life. So while her sister got to live her life the youngest daughter had to be mistreated by the mother. I found this story to be very similar to that of Cinderella the way she was the only one that had to have a hard time. What I also found interesting was the role that food had within this film. It was almost as if food was what underlyingly drove the movie. In many of the scenes you always saw the characters either cooking or eating something. The characters even talked about food in casual conversations. An example of this was when the mother was talking to the doctor about how her daughter and her newly wedded husband should move to texas. She makes a reference to drinking chile without water. Overall i thought this was a very good film. The one problem i had with the film was the way it transitioned. It was as if a lot of the movie was being left out. One second there was a baby being born and the next cut a year has passed. I think they could have done a better job with the cuts and how they progressed the movie. If they were going to do it this way they could have at least made it known that they were jumping this fast. If not then add more so we as the viewers can actually see the progression.