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| Name of Work | Chocolat | ||||||||||
| Production Date | 2000 | ||||||||||
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Description
A woman and her daughter arrives in a tight-knit town somewhere in Europe. She is a free spirit and is in conflict with the conservative mores of the town leaders and elders. Her opening of a chocolate shop signifies the pleasures of the flesh, which conflicts with the puritanical impulses of the the town leaders. Conflict ensues between libertine and repressors, with "living a free life" winning out.
Theme
Follow your dream and disregard convention.
Emotional Sum or Sense-of-life
Pleasure is good; religion and conventional thinking is bad.
Context Information
Some of the scenes are composite special effects even though they look like some lovely European countryside.
