The North Wind Blows Chocolate——A Brief Talk on the Metaphor in "Chocolat".

Vito 2021-12-30 17:20:21

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-Hula Hula, when the north wind blows, the petals of the tree bloom with tassels.
The wheat is yellow. Don't forget to put a handful in your bag in the early morning when you are on the road. When it rains, let it shake off by your ears and take root in the forward direction.
Once in a winter, the north wind of hula hula blew to the small town on the banks of the Tannis with sweet desire, so the story unfolded in the sweet wind.

But it was half past two when I dressed up reddish brown tears with rose chocolate.

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After having a high fever for two days, my tired and impulsive mind and body melted away with the warm afternoon that "Chocolat" spent with me. I opened the window and breathed the moist and ambiguous spring air.

1. Suppressed desire, dark red fire

This winter, a powerful and mysterious north wind blows into the quiet and monotonous town, Lance Quinnet. The heavy church door was suddenly blown open, and Earl Renault dignifiedly closed the door...If there is something you shouldn't see in this town, then you should turn your head away.
This is an ascetic town. Religion firmly fetters people's hearts, and leads a boring life like walking dead listlessly. Can't breathe.
The red cloaks on a pair of passersby hobbled forward against the gray and dark tones of the winter town. The roaring north wind seemed to be on a mission, guiding the mother and daughter of Vianne to come here on the depressed snow, and set up a chocolate workshop. In operation, the signboard reflects the golden sunlight.

The cracked gray wall oozes red fire, and the suppressed desire behind the wall is about to move, heralding the forthcoming vitality.

The beginning of the extreme drama.

2. What do you see in the roulette of desire

Juliet. Binoche's brilliant, enthusiastic, magical smile and deep eyes that seem to perceive everything are like sweet and magical chocolate, no one can resist. So when Vianne revolved the colorful and ancient roulette, repeating spell-like questions. People take their time and unconsciously speak out their abstract desires.

"What do you see?" What do you desire? There are working women who long for passion, there are melancholy teenagers who are curious about death, and there are lonely old people who long for happiness and affection. . . These simple and complex desires are like fire covered by wet cotton quilts, which will never cease. Depressed and blocked the backlog in the chest. Wei Ann uses a variety of delicious chocolates to knock the seal of desire in everyone's hearts. In fact, why does the gate of desire need to be opened? Just a small gap will burst out, and strong pressure is people's desire for freedom.

I think the one who impressed me the most in the film was the old and weird landlord who was interpreted by Judi Dench-Amanda. The first bit of hot coco slipped into the mouth. The sensitive and complex expression on her face seemed to open the audience's taste. I also tasted a touch of sweetness in my mouth, which penetrated directly into my bones. The desire in her heart began to wake up. She was lonely and needed happiness so much. Underneath her cold appearance was a free and enthusiastic spirit. However, at this time she was already suffering from severe diabetes, and Amanda realized that in the short lifetime, she would desperately pursue happiness and contempt death in the face of happiness. "Flowers bloom and need to be broken", with this value of treating life, maybe it is what people call the aesthetics of death, right? "Momentary negative, shock, suffocation and fatal suggestion, this resistance to the oppression of the essence of life, adventurous beauty, double temptation, and comfort", the aesthetics of death is only bold and unconcerned about desire, exposing the struggle of life How can it be stigmatized by morality?

At the 70th birthday party, accompanied by the strong, rich aroma of chocolate, the old man chewed deliciously, laughed and danced uncontrollably. . . Like a blooming tea, he finally passed away peacefully in his sleep without regrets, and rushed to bliss.

3. Following the north wind is a hidden idea.

If the explicit desires embodied in the characters themselves are mentioned just now, then the following is considered relatively invisible.

The mayor, Earl Reynolds, who represents the tradition and conservative strength of the town, believes that it is a sin to eat a piece of whole grain bread during the fasting festival. Therefore, it is a devil's behavior for him to open a chocolate shop on the fasting festival, let alone. This devil has not yet married and gave birth to a child, so he targeted Wei An. He wanted to maintain the traditions of the town. This was his public reason against Wei An. On the other hand, the mayor’s wife left him. His traditional sense of morality prevents him from pursuing the widow he likes. Long-term repression and abstinence torture him. He does not have freedom and happiness. He also wants everyone to be happy. Being abstinent like him, using poison to fight poison, so that he can get a negative balance in spirit. Later, after tasting the sweetness of chocolate, Earl Renault's long imprisoned desire was finally opened, and he began to accept and face new things. Although this kind of performance is a bit awkward, it seems to be inadequate, but it is still acceptable with the fairy-tale background setting.


Juliet Binoche’s interpretation of the heroine chocolatier Vianne, travels around with her mother’s ashes, and is dominated by the soul who is always chasing for freedom. Inside is the bottomless deep blue loneliness. The journey without an end is actually the product of being tortured by the contradictory desires of freedom and belonging. She chooses to be convicted of those that she knows clearly are just symbols of illusion happiness. In the end, love and reality tied her down. When Rox’s ship was burned, Vianne said, "Your boat is gone." Rox replied, "That’s just going from one place to another. Tool." The essence of wandering. Wei Anne faced the free north wind in the valley, her tired and vicissitudes of eyes confusing.

In the end, Vianne threw her mother's ashes into the wind and decided to stop wandering.

Yeah, how free can it be?

"Look, Little Pando always likes to hide in the fireplace."

In fact, Arnoke has the same generous and enthusiastic character as her mother, but since the day she was born, she has been carrying the fate of wandering together with her mother, and she has no fixed place to go around. Without friends, you always lose before you get them. So Arnoke made up a small kangaroo Pando with a lame left leg as her loyal friend. Every time you see Anoke whispering to the air with a happy and confident expression, sometimes you may really think that Pando just crossed the real existence of his own retina. But why is Pando's leg lame in the little girl's setting? In the hysterical nonsense of Anok when Vianne decided to leave again, I think I found the answer. It turned out that it was not Pando's left leg that had been hurting, but the little girl's tired and exhausted heart. How much she wanted to settle down, get a destination, and play happily with so many little friends, even if she made up a naive excuse to stop her legs and no longer toss. So at the end of the final reunion, the kangaroo Pando's leg was also miraculously healed, and he walked far away, and the fairy tale fable also had a perfect ending. . .

The warm and gorgeous taste of the lovely chocolate melts in the mouth, and the sweetness tears the nerves. . . The beautiful picture, with the sweet breath, makes people feel that there must be a magical wizard hidden inside! As a beautiful work that allows people to enjoy it, a film that starts from food, explores human nature and desire, and is full of fables and fairy tales. There are too many things to let us remember. I'm not afraid that the north wind will be too strong, that the chocolate will be too sweet, but that desire and freedom will be suppressed for too long and too long. In the impetuous spring, I suddenly wanted to eat chocolate.

After talking too much, I don’t know how to end it, so I will quote another sentence in the film review:

"Chocolate is not destroyed, but created a Garden of Eden. A Garden of Eden without Jehovah and Calvin anymore, one that makes good desires start low. It's a golden home."


The north wind of hula hula continues to blow, and the chocolate is still sweet. What are you thinking about?
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When I was in high school, there was a day when I was short-circuited in my mind and then I pieced together what I wrote that day. I turned it out that day. Now I look at it like a mentally handicapped essay. It’s really worrying for me to compose new poems. . Put this to commemorate

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Chocolat quotes

  • [Anouk has come home from school upset]

    Vianne Rocher: Anouk, just tell me what happened.

    Anouk Rocher: Are you Satan's helper?

    Vianne Rocher: Well, it... it's not easy, being different.

    Anouk Rocher: Why can't we go to church?

    Vianne Rocher: Well, you can if you want... but it won't make things easier.

    Anouk Rocher: Why can't you wear black shoes like the other mothers?

  • Vianne Rocher: Things could be different for you, Josephine. Serge doesn't run the world.

    Josephine: He might as well.

    Vianne Rocher: Is that what you believe?

    Josephine: I know it.

    Vianne Rocher: Oh. Well, then it must be... must be true. My mistake.