favorite movie [4th quarter-homework 1]
Favorite Movie:
Chocolat
Summary:
The film is set in a small French town of Lansquenet-sous-Tanne where the mayor, Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina) encourages the people to take the view that morality is preserved by resisting change rather than allowing them to think for themselves about what’s right and wrong.
Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) and her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) move in to the town and sets up a chocolaterie. The devout Catholic villagers at first shun the single mother who has dared to open a chocolate shop with the shamelessly pagan name Chocolaterie Maya just as Lent's forty days of deprivation and denial have begun.
Vianne has inherited a gift for making chocolate that, like a drug, thaws the coldest of hearts and helps people discover and nurture long-buried desires. Won over by Vianne's warmth and her delectable sweets, the townspeople begin to accept her and her shop.
When a boatload of guitar-playing, folk-dancing French-Irish river wanderers decide to stop over on the town's riverbanks, Reynaud vows to cleanse the town of such forces of disorder and temptation. He tries to turn the townspeople against the Chocolaterie Maya and the river people. Vianne teams up with Roux, the riverboat captain (Johnny Depp), her irritable but progressive landlady (Judi Dench), and the local crazy lady (Lena Olin) to wage a gentle war against the town's dour intolerance. They suceeded in the end.
Why:
The film was unique and entertaining.
It is a heartwarming, feel-good movie that leaves a lasting impression with the message it conveys. Though subjective, the film relays to its viewers that pleasurable things can be good and healthful if practiced with temperance. Another message is accepting others as they are , and allowing them the freedom to be all that God has created them to be. Interestingly, this film has incorporated religious themes and images without becoming a religious film.
You're sure to feel the desire to eat the mouth-watering bonbons lovingly prepared by Vianne as you see it in the film.
It has a sweet love story as well (not mushy! >:P waahh Johnny Depp). What I like most is that Chocolat is like a good book turned into a movie. Its setting, music, costumes, characters and unique plot twist makes it different from typical Hollywood movies.
Chocolat
Summary:
The film is set in a small French town of Lansquenet-sous-Tanne where the mayor, Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina) encourages the people to take the view that morality is preserved by resisting change rather than allowing them to think for themselves about what’s right and wrong.
Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) and her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) move in to the town and sets up a chocolaterie. The devout Catholic villagers at first shun the single mother who has dared to open a chocolate shop with the shamelessly pagan name Chocolaterie Maya just as Lent's forty days of deprivation and denial have begun.
Vianne has inherited a gift for making chocolate that, like a drug, thaws the coldest of hearts and helps people discover and nurture long-buried desires. Won over by Vianne's warmth and her delectable sweets, the townspeople begin to accept her and her shop.
When a boatload of guitar-playing, folk-dancing French-Irish river wanderers decide to stop over on the town's riverbanks, Reynaud vows to cleanse the town of such forces of disorder and temptation. He tries to turn the townspeople against the Chocolaterie Maya and the river people. Vianne teams up with Roux, the riverboat captain (Johnny Depp), her irritable but progressive landlady (Judi Dench), and the local crazy lady (Lena Olin) to wage a gentle war against the town's dour intolerance. They suceeded in the end.
Why:
The film was unique and entertaining.
It is a heartwarming, feel-good movie that leaves a lasting impression with the message it conveys. Though subjective, the film relays to its viewers that pleasurable things can be good and healthful if practiced with temperance. Another message is accepting others as they are , and allowing them the freedom to be all that God has created them to be. Interestingly, this film has incorporated religious themes and images without becoming a religious film.
You're sure to feel the desire to eat the mouth-watering bonbons lovingly prepared by Vianne as you see it in the film.
It has a sweet love story as well (not mushy! >:P waahh Johnny Depp). What I like most is that Chocolat is like a good book turned into a movie. Its setting, music, costumes, characters and unique plot twist makes it different from typical Hollywood movies.
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