Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 15:17:31 -0700
From: mheydon-AT-sonic.net (mark heydon)
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Like water for Chocolate ...


>     I've only seen the movie, but my point of ambivalence stemmed from the 
>     characterization of the red-haired sister. She is the most wild, the 
>     most sexual (her desire literally turns into fire and she rides off 
>     naked with a stranger) and the best dancer. I don't think it's mere 
>     coincidence that we find out that she is the daughter of a man of 
>     African descent. Many of her personality traits are time-worn 
>     primitivist stereotypes. 

        I took the daughters to be confined by type, but in another way--a
la Dostoyevsky's _Bros K_.  One was physical (the red-haired sister), mental
(the oldest, mental manipulator), and the spiritual (the cook).  If I were
to be critical (I enjoyed the movie), I'd have to say they were oppressed by
these categories rather than political oppression.



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