Like Water for Chocolate

Wake for Juan, Elena's husband. (0:04)

Tita at maid Nacha's grave marker. (0:22)

Tita learns her young nephew Roberto has died. (0:45)

Elena tells Chencha, "Let her go to the crazy house." Dr. John Brown takes her to the psychiatric hospital. A boy outside asks, "Is she crazy?" (0:47)

Elena has lost her appetite. (0:49)

Narrator referring to Tita: "Above all she never wanted to speak again." (0:50)

Narrator, as Dr. Brown enters Tita's room with a bowl of broth, followed by Chencha: "Broths can cure any type of illness, physical or mental." Tita resumes talking. (0:54)

Tita at the burial of her mother's body. (0:58)

After her lover Pedro dies Tita eats matches to start a fire so she can join him in death. (1:41)

Bereavement | mutism | psychiatric hospital | suicide

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