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Magical realism is not an officially recognized film category; it is a literary film genre. It is presented matter of factly and occurs without explanation. Critics have recognized magical realism features in many films by applying the magical realism characteristics. Many films have magical realist narrative and events that contrast between real and magical elements, or different modes of production. This device explores the reality of what exists. Fredrick Jameson, "On Magic Realism in Film" advances a hypothesis that magical realism in film is a formal mode that is constitutionally depended on a type of historical raw material in which disjunction is structurally present. Like Water for Chocolate begins and ends with the first person narrative to establishing the magical realism storytelling frame. Telling a story from a child point of view, the historical gaps and holes perspective, and with cinematic color heightening the presence, are magical realism tools in films. Other films that convey elements of magic realism are Amélie and any number of the films of Woody Allen, including Alice, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Midnight in Paris.
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