Tortilla Soup

In the movie Tortilla Soup, at the beginning, Martin, the father in the movie, show him making delicious and elaborate meals. Although Martin seems very cold and heartless his concentration on the details of the meals expresses his passion and love for the kitchen as well as those that he cooks for. When there was a disaster that accrued in the restaurants kitchen Martin was the first one to be called to resolve the problem. This shows how amazing he is at what he does in the kitchen and in the movie you can tell that everyone looks up to him and his talents. His over reactions and stubbornness also expresses his love for his daughters. For instance when his middle daughter, Carmen, makes an announcement that she will soon be moving out, he over reacts.

Further on in to the movie you begin to realize that Martin only looks for what is best for others. His tough love and stubbornness comes off as cruel to his daughters but when he starts to speak to his best friend, Gomez, which is the total opposite of Martin, about his troubles he starts to be calmer and let his daughters be more free, as well as support them in any decisions that they decide to make. He becomes more relax by mixing his Spanish and English together, something that I like to call 'spanglish." am thing that i rs spanish n, Martin, Like mentioned before Martin loves to cook for those he loves and he does this to win the heart of Yolanda. But he does this in a very clever way. Yolanda has a daughter, and every day Martin would bring the little girl food for lunch just to get closer to Yolanda and it worked, at the end of the movie Martin proposed to Yolanda. In the ended they show Martin at the dinner table happier than ever before seen in the movie.