I enjoyed this movie and thought there were many messages that were creatively relayed. One that caught my attention was the use of hot to represent love and cold to represent loneliness. For example, when Tita and Pedro were first attracted to each other, it was described as his glaze being so hot when he looked at her that she could feel the burning. Gertrudes leaves and finds the love of her life when the shower room catches on fire. Sparks fly when Tita and Pedro are intimate for the first time and are consumed by fire when they come together again at the end. In contrast, when Tita was told of Pedro's engagement to Rosara, she felt a great deal of despair and loneliness. It was then that she was described as so cold that she was unable to warm herself. She proceeds to knit a seemingly unending afghan in an attempt to warm herself and soothe her pain. From the title, which implies how hot water needs to be to make hot chocolate, to the heat of burning love consumed in flames of death at the end, it was a hot movie!