love is the answer to everything

Karl 2022-03-19 09:01:03

I just watched the beginning of "Chocolate", and I didn't think it appealed to me, and even felt a little boring. But after watching it slowly, I felt something warm. In fact, I am not particularly focused on the idea that the film wants to convey, but I will find the director's intentions. Chocolate as a clue is similar to the previous "Perfume". That's because the heroine's chocolate has a magical power. I remember a scene in the film where the chocolate brought the couple back to love again. Around "Chocolate", the heroine of the story and other residents of the town have an intersection. This town, originally under the management of the mayor, was lifeless, and joy seemed to be suffocated here. But when the heroine of this film arrives, everything starts to recover and everything starts to melt. Just like that detail shot, the ice hanging on the statue begins to melt, and the statue finally smiles under the catalysis of love.
Suffice to say, ever since the heroine and her daughter moved to the town, a new breath has begun to spread. It is no wonder that the rigid and conservative mayor smelled this breath, fearing that the order of the town would be damaged, and like a feudal force, he continued to suppress the heroine Vianna and spread rumors about her everywhere. But heroine Vianna wins her first friend Josephine, a longtime abusive housewife, who smells freedom in the chocolate shop.
Fortunately, there is such a trace of warmth. Warmth seems to be a quilt basked in the sun, making people want to hug and touch its warmth at all costs. Warmth is soft, like the human heart. The softness of the heart makes it more vulnerable, the hard medicine and scalpel will only make it more painful, only tenderness, only tenderness and softness, something that smells like chocolate, can redeem the old. , despairing mind.
For countless early mornings, Josephine began to laugh and learn to make chocolate, to wear brightly colored clothes, to dine with the crowd, and to get dressed for Sunday's banquet. And then found that little by little she was getting younger and more sunny like a child. Soft child.
She found that she could actually not be bound by her husband, and she liked this free life. Even though his husband's appearance has improved under the priest's teaching, his heart is still closed and ignorant. The rude guy, even after being rejected by Josephine, tried to take his wife back by violent means. But Josephine is no longer the fearful lamb to be slaughtered, and she begins to fight with the heroine and fight for freedom.
The seventy-year-old old lady Amanda, who is still charming and pursues freedom, is also attracted by the heroine's chocolate shop and opens up her heart to the heroine. The widow Mrs. Aude who is indulging in grief and Julianne, who secretly admires her... They are both influenced by the heroine Vianna and her rich and sweet chocolate, the temptation and subtle influence of bold indulgence, and gradually they are willing to let go of the closed and dark Heart, learn to add a bit of color and taste to life.
After a long drought and rain, the people in the town felt more and more that the spring breeze of freedom was coming towards them, and love was watering their long-suppressed hearts like nectar. When the old conservative thinking encounters the emerging consciousness, they are always afraid, always want to fight back, and always want to destroy the emerging consciousness. The mayor feared that the morals of the townspeople would be corrupted, and after learning that the Gypsies came to the town, signs were posted everywhere, warning people not to approach the Gypsies. But warnings can never close people's hearts. The heroine begins to make friends with the Gypsies, and she makes a bunch of allies. She can't help but fall in love with their leader, Laux, too. Vianna, who has been helping others to pursue happiness and preparing delicious food for others, can finally begin to explore her own desire for love and desire for sweetness. Even though it is windy and rainy outside, the rich and warm chocolate-like emotion in my heart is rolling hot. On the birthday of the old lady Amanda, Vianne decided to hold a food feast for the town of Lance Quinnet, but she didn't know that the real big storm was just about to hit. While the heroine and her friends are having a beautiful night of revelry, the mayor and Josephine's brutish husband can't allow it to happen. Evil creeps in...a fire that brings joy and sorrow to the heroine and her friends. Vianna and her friends did nothing wrong, they just had fun, and no one can take away the right to happiness and freedom.
I still love that young pastor when he tells people with compassion in church, "What is our goodness calculated by? Is it something we reject and oppose? Or is it something we create, feel and inclusive?" Salvation is a smile, a visible warmth. After the mayor enjoyed the magic of chocolate that night, his heart began to melt slowly. Because he had done so many things to the heroine that hurt her, but that morning he clearly saw the heroine's tolerant gaze and the warm soda handed over. Is happiness a sin? The mighty Count and Mayor regarded pleasure as an unforgivable sin, but was defeated by the passion of chocolate, in fact, because he couldn't even convince himself that God's theory could not be used against human warmth.
The arrival of Vianna brightened up the gray town, the gray Josephine, and Amanda. The dazzling dazzling dance of Josephine was completely different from the previous shrinking. After the warm birthday banquet, he left the world without regrets. She brought them joy and rebirth, and they gave her reason and strength to keep going. Chocolate can bring amazing energy, but it is poison for diabetics. Amanda's attitude is admirable. Instead of spending the rest of her life uninterestingly, it is better to enjoy the present and die happily. As long as she is willing, it may not be the best ending for her, and others should give her blessings.
Also, I want to talk a little bit. In the film, Vianna once said to her daughter that "it's not easy to be a different person". Yes, being a different person will inevitably lead to the exclusion and crusade of the group. So in real life, we are afraid to be different, because we are afraid of being abandoned by the group, we are afraid of being different from others. Because we are too accustomed to comparing ourselves with others, asking "Why am I different from others?", and even hiding our own personality, what a sad thing it is. But have you ever thought that everyone is unique and there is no need to be the same as everyone else. Living who you are, letting go of your fears, and unleashing your true nature is the source of your happiness.
Yes, chocolate is also a warm and affectionate food in the film. I would like to say that I am in love with the magic chocolate and I want to bring warmth and love to my beloved.

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Extended Reading
  • Ethan 2021-12-30 17:20:21

    Love in the movie is second, liberation and salvation are the key points. Everyone in the town has a story. They all have a common point that is bound by themselves, by others, by religion, and by etiquette. One is buried in the heart and always solves the problem. Do not open the knot. Amanda, an old lady who is very old but open-minded, is my favorite! I like her outlook on life of "ownership in her own life" and "timely enjoyment"! In addition, the soundtrack at the end of the movie is really nice!

  • Cristobal 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    After watching the movie, my mind is full of chocolate, Ferrero's, Hershey's, Meiji's, as well as the kind of large French Delphis dark truffle chocolate and various handmade chocolates, Nima, suffering, I can only drink A cup of instant mocha coffee can quench your thirst and comfort your mind. There is chocolate in mocha coffee...

Chocolat quotes

  • Comte de Reynaud: [forcing Serge into the confessional] He is ready.

    Père Henri: But confession must be made in the spirit of contrition.

    Comte de Reynaud: [pulling open the curtain] You, have you come in the spirit of contrition?

    Serge: Contrition... yes contrition,

    Comte de Reynaud: [shutting curtain] He is ready.

  • Francoise 'Fuffi' Drou: I heard she was some kind of radical.