Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate)

Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate) is the story of two young who have different sexual preferences and develops a great friendship with one another. One is a homosexual and the other heterosexual.
The relationship with the two began when Diego (played by Jorge Perugorria) sits at the same table as David (played by Vladimir Cruz). First, David sits down and eats his dessert. Then Diego comes and sits right across from him. So he starts flirting with David by eating his dessert in front of him. Then he starts talking to him. And sometime during the conversation, Diego mentions to David that he has some photos of him. So David is telling Diego that he wants the photos. Diego tells him that the photos are he but he would have to come home with Diego and get them.
And this is where the entire movie begins. Even though the opening scene was David inside a hotel room with another man's wife, I still say that the scene where David and Diego first meet is the primary scene. After all, the movie centers on them and they are the stars of the film. So it makes perfect sense to me.
Diego and David proceeds up the flights of stairs and almost end up bumping into diego's (nosey)neighbor, Nancy (played by Mirta Ibarra). She is just one of those people who enjoys prying into everyone else's business, but her own. In fact, there is a scene where she walks into Diego's apartment and discovers David for the first time. That was when she started to come up with a plan that will make David fall in love and sleep with her. If I'm not mistaken, I think she was some sort of a prostitute. I didn't figure that out until David was alone in her apartment, dancing, kissing and going upstairs (to her bedroom)to have sexual intercourse.
After that entire sexual experience that David had with Nancy, he knew that he was falling in love with her and he was going to tell her that the next time he'd see her. His friendship with Diego grew more intimately. He was able to open up to him and share things that probably other people never knew about him. He stopped being against what Diego was and started to accept him not only for what he was but for who he was both on the inside as well as the outside.
The final scene was the one that left the biggest impression throughout the film. When Diego had asked David to give him a hug, he refused. But when he was asked a second time by Diego, he hugged him with pure love and sincerity. Diego even said to David that he loved him very much. As far as David's old roommate/friend, I don't know what happened to him. I don't think his opinion on homosexuality had changed much. After the fight him and David got into, their friendship was over the moment he told his friend that he was not going to do his dirty work and was not going to be involved with his plans anymore.
Throughout the entire movie, there was only one question that was just sitting in the back of my mind: why was this film called Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate) and where did the director get the name for the film? I guess I'll never know. Anyway, that's not important right now. What is important is that this movie had more than one story to tell. Not only was this a story about two young men from opposite sides of the track, but this was also a story on how we as human beings should never be quick to judge and tom hate someone just because he/she is different from us. Even if you don't agree with his/her viewpoints on life and his/her lifestyle, no one has the right to discriminate against anyone.

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