When I was reviewing English today, I accidentally saw a video, which aroused a strong desire to watch this movie. After searching the Internet, I found out that it turned out to be an excerpt from "Chocolate", which is a film I have been paying attention to for a long time. David Brown's quirky style really hits my heart, and it's just the snippet that has me hooked. Bolton is a big kid, and his movies are all like live-action fairy tales, weird, thrilling, peculiar, and fun. After watching this film, it reminded me of another of his works "Charlie and His Chocolate Factory", which is also narrated in the way of memories of the children in the film when they grow up. The theme is also chocolate, and the music is also weird. resemblance. Although the music, environment, and atmosphere are all designed to be weird, they do not make people feel a little scary. David Brown always creates fairy tales for older children, and fairy tales always have a warm ending.
In Bolton's movies, there is no absolute bad guy, just like the stubborn and conservative mayor in the small town. Although he spreads messages and even forces the villagers to cut off contact with the woman, he is just a stubborn dog. Old-fashioned to lose his wife at the end of the poor man. He can go a few weeks without food during the fasting period, behave properly, lead by example, and be respected by the residents. But he is also an autocratic person, and I hope everyone can do what should be done according to his principles, and not do what should not be done. He not only enclosed the town with a large fence, but also enclosed himself. He has never been able to face the fact of his wife's betrayal, and is unwilling to accept warmth, just because he has too many principles, too many dogmas and too many responsibilities. So, he is a sympathetic man.
In this mayor, we can see many shadows of ourselves. Feudal thinking and stereotypes always affect us unknowingly, when most people hold the same or similar values, this value will be determined to be correct, and then it will become a judgment The scale of "should do" and "should not do". An invisible trap quietly trapped us in this way. I think human society has always been like this. And the few who are unwilling to follow the tide are destined to become lonely wanderers. In the film, a woman said something that impressed me deeply: "Because we are different, we have to endure it." If you want to be a lonely wanderer, you must be strong. But if you just want to keep yourself, you also need to be strong.
The dark gray brick wall, the dust flying in the sky, the wind, howling, a depressing scene, two people wearing bright red shawls, they are particularly eye-catching, they slowly walked to the town... The appearance of this woman, It foreshadowed her uniqueness and the changes she was about to bring. And she, indeed, awakened the town to life. Like her mother, she is also a wanderer, with her daughter, moving with the north wind. Women run chocolate shops for a living, making chocolates of various flavors and suitable for all types of people according to unique recipes. Her chocolate seems to have some kind of magic, and anyone who tastes it will suddenly gain courage. An old man has the courage to express his love, an abused woman has the courage to run away from her husband, a child has the courage to defy her mother's wishes to meet a long-lost mother-in-law...Chocolate is magic, and this woman is the magician . Her optimism, her enthusiasm, her wisdom, help people find happiness.
The wanderers wander because they are powerless. When faced with many obstacles from the mayor, and even almost lost her most precious daughter, the woman was desperate, packed her bags, and forced her daughter to leave. No matter how strong people are, they will collapse. No hope is despair. But no matter how hard she worked, her efforts paid off in the end. Opening the kitchen door, she saw that the people in the town who had eaten her chocolates were happily helping her make chocolates for the Easter party. People began to accept her as a "weird woman" who didn't want to go to church, ignored her fast, dressed brightly, had no husband but had children, and all her actions went against tradition. People are also starting to look beyond the stereotypes to find their own happiness. To change, to get back the innocence of people, or this is the purpose of her wandering...
Free love, passionate dancing, singing with no one else, pure breathing of natural air is not an easy task in any age, especially when you are no longer a child...
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