Movie Review:
Chocolate
By NATHAN LEE
“Chocolate” is dedicated to “the unconditional love given to all the special children in the world,” which is a cheeky way to kick off a movie about a little girl with a gift, very special indeed, for kicking grown men in the face.
It’s true that Zen (Jija Yanin Vismitananda), born to a humble Thai woman and a Japanese gangster, exhibits behaviors that suggest autism, or at least some poorly acted simulation of it: abnormal shyness, primitive syntax, rocking back and forth, an extreme aversion to houseflies.
Fortunately, she has been endowed with a natural mastery of the martial arts, much of which she appears to absorb by watching “Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior” on television. The director of that movie, Prachya Pinkaew, also happens to have made this one, and if his ego has expanded in the interim, his filmmaking chops have not.
Risibly sentimental even for a genre not known for its emotional sophistication, “Chocolate” follows Zen as she collects on debts owed her ailing mother in order to pay for medical care. (You hope her targets have paid up their own premiums.) All of which is pretext — barely — for a series of unexceptional brawls.
WITH: Jija Yanin Vismitananda (Zen), Hiroshi Abe (Masashi), Pongpat Wachirabangjon (Number 8) and Som Amara Siripong (Sin).
Source: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/02/06....html?ref=arts
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Chocolate
By NATHAN LEE
“Chocolate” is dedicated to “the unconditional love given to all the special children in the world,” which is a cheeky way to kick off a movie about a little girl with a gift, very special indeed, for kicking grown men in the face.
It’s true that Zen (Jija Yanin Vismitananda), born to a humble Thai woman and a Japanese gangster, exhibits behaviors that suggest autism, or at least some poorly acted simulation of it: abnormal shyness, primitive syntax, rocking back and forth, an extreme aversion to houseflies.
Fortunately, she has been endowed with a natural mastery of the martial arts, much of which she appears to absorb by watching “Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior” on television. The director of that movie, Prachya Pinkaew, also happens to have made this one, and if his ego has expanded in the interim, his filmmaking chops have not.
Risibly sentimental even for a genre not known for its emotional sophistication, “Chocolate” follows Zen as she collects on debts owed her ailing mother in order to pay for medical care. (You hope her targets have paid up their own premiums.) All of which is pretext — barely — for a series of unexceptional brawls.
WITH: Jija Yanin Vismitananda (Zen), Hiroshi Abe (Masashi), Pongpat Wachirabangjon (Number 8) and Som Amara Siripong (Sin).
Source: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/02/06....html?ref=arts
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