Monday 30 August 2010

Chocolate

Director; Prachya Pinkaew
Starring; Yanin Mitananda, Hiroshi Abe
Year; 2008
Genre; Martial Arts
Release; UK Cine Asia

Ok, there's about a hundred films called Chocolate, this one is a Thai MA movie. The film centres around Zen, mentally retarded she has to raise money to care for her mother. Her mother used to be a big shot criminal madam, but now is ravaged with leukemia. Zen gets money by chasing her mothers old debts. Naturally, people refuse to pay, so Zen 'perusades' them, with her savant ability to mimic martial arts off tv. Interesting take this, although not the first time such things have been done. By no means a classic, but worth a watch.

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