Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

Mario Iván Martínez: Doctor John Brown

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• Doctor John Brown : My aunt is as deaf as a post.

  Tita : Then how can she carry on conversations?

  Doctor John Brown : She reads lips, but when she is eating, she is too preoccupied to notice anything else. Watch.

  [shouts] 

  Doctor John Brown : Tia Mary, I'm marrying Tita because the poor girl is crazy.

  [Tia Mary continues eating.] 

• Doctor John Brown : My grandmother, Morning Star, was a Kikapu Indian. She said that we are all born with a match box inside of us, and we can't light them ourselves. We need, like in this experiment, oxygen and a candle. But in our case, the oxygen must come from the breath of the lover. The light of the candle can be anything. A song, a word, a caress, a sound. Just anything! Something that pulls the trigger and lights on of the matches. Each of us has to discover what our triggers to life are; because, the combustion of one of the matches feeds the soul. If there is no trigger for the matches, the match box gets damp, and we'll never be able to light any of them. There are many ways in which we can dry a damp match box. Rest assured, it can be solved. It's also very important to light the matches one by one. If an intense emotion were to light them all at once, they would create such a brilliant light, that before our eyes a tunnel would appear, magnificent, showing us the way we forgot when we were born. Calling us back to find our lost divine origin.

• Doctor John Brown : I see you didn't touch your dinner. Sue Ellen is a horrible cook, but my son and I put up with her food. Of course, *you* don't have to.

• Doctor John Brown : Next time, Chencha. Next time.