"My Favorite Character"

I actually enjoyed watching the movie Tortilla Soup. This movie had a little bit for everything. It was a combination of a love story, drama, and comedy. I liked all the characters but the one I fell in love with was Carmen.

Carmen was the second oldest daughter of Martin. She was a very classy woman, business lady, family person, and very funny person at the same time.. In the beginning I did not like her style because she acted like she was better than every one else. She dressed better than her sisters and she acted very bougie. She was always criticizing her dad's cooking. Telling her sister something is always missing, which actually looked great. Every time he was making a meal I was getting hungry. But as time passed her character started to change.

Carmen was actually a very loving person who cared for her family, especially for her dad Martin. She was always worried about his health. But she felt that her dad did not really care about her feelings. When she wanted to talk to someone she talked to her dad's best friend Gomez who was also a chef like Martin. He knew her better than Martin ever did. It was sad when he died because it felt like it was her dad that died because he cared about her and showed her love and would talk to him about whole lot of things. Gomez understood her. When she sat down to talk to her dad about her life and the decision she was choosing for her life at Gomez's funeral, he just shut her down completely. Then she ran to her boyfriend's home for comfort, ends up catching him cheating with another woman, who was so ugly and looked more like a man. That's when I felt sorry for her and started to fall in love with her character. Now she had no one else to talk to. When she decided that she was going to move to France for business purpose, her dad did not even show that he cared and did not even try stopping her from leaving.

Not only she was a very caring person, she was an excellent cook also. Carmen felt that she was better than her dad when it came to cooking. She would always cook for dead beat boy friend who really did not even appreciate her.

Towards the end, when her dad took her to the airport to let her go to France, instead of giving her a hug and a kiss, he gave her a set of knives and drove away. Carmen just stood there very upset and watching her dad drive away. When her dad came back home from dropping off Carmen at the the airport, he just stood there very sad and started to reminisce about Carmen's child hood. Some of us can relate to Martin, I know I can because sometimes it's very hard to show someone that you care about someone that is very important in your life. Only way you can show your love is by giving that person a gift, or a card, like what Martin did when he gave his daughter his knife set for his remembrance. Everything changed when Carmen decided not to go to France and come back home and take care her dad. He was so happy to see her and actually showed how he felt by holding her so tight.

The movie had a very good ending that made me happy. Carmen took over her dad's restaurant business as the lead chef. Martin got married and all three of his daughters were very happy with their lives.