(Chocolat) what is Roux's favorite chocolate?

When i first started watching the film “Chocolat”, i thought i was going to be sitting through two hours of straight boredom. About 15 minutes into the film I realized that I was wrong. There was something about the chocolate of the film that even made me the viewer get my spirits lifted up. My mouth could not help but to begin to water when the main character of the film began talking about all of the different types of chocolate that she made. I was sold when she mentioned the spicy chocolate. With that being said if the chocolate of the film had that much of an impact on me, someone who is just viewing the film then it certainly had a huge effect on the other characters in the film. The chocolate plays a very important role in the film. In my opinion the chocolate of the is very similar to 
that of the fruit that was bitten by Adam and Eve in the bible. The reason why i say this is because it's as if everyone in town is in complete darkness and they are so focused on following the orders 
of their religion, but once they take a bite of the chocolate they begin to see the light and break out of the habits that they were called upon to do and they now begin to do what they want to do and
they truly live their lives. For instance the wife that was getting abused by her husband probably 
would have never rebelled against him if she had never eaten a piece of the chocolate. Also while watching this film I learned a lot more about french culture. In french culture it seems to me that the romantic love they have for each other is more passionate than that of other cultures. You can see this in many different couples throughout the movie. Overall this was a very good movie and I would definitely recommend watching it. Although I still am very curious as to what Roux’s favorite chocolate is. 
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Thanksgiving

First of all i thought the movie “what's cooking” was a really good movie. I loved the fact that it was very diverse and it included many different cultural backgrounds. With that being said because of all the different cultures that are within the film they did a very good job at showing the differences between each household. For example in the hispanic house a lot of the walls were orange and it just had a hispanic feel to it. The way they would compare and contrast is that they would place exactly what's happening in each scene side by side. When one family was making the turkey all the families were making the turkey and you saw the different ways they made their food. The asian family put sriracha sauce on their turkey. They also showed the differences in how the food was prepared. In the black household the yams were made in more of a casserole style. Where as in the hispanic family the yams were baked. They also prepared the mashed potatoes differently. Some families crushed them with their hands other families blended them. Another just cut them up or even mashed them with an actual masher. They also showed the difference by the food and utensils they were actually using at the table. For instance the asian family was not using a fork and a knife at the table. They were using chopsticks. The food that was on the table was actually very diverse. For desert the hispanic family had flan and dulce de leche. The black family had blueberry pie. The asian family had noodles on their table when the black family was having mac and cheese on their plates. The film did find ways to throw curveballs at the audience because of the turkey being burnt they ended up eating fried chicken. The black family did not eat and prepare typical food that you would see in a black household and the grandmother mentions this multiple times within the food. My favorite part of the movie was at the end when they revealed that all of the houses were on the same block as each other. I thought that was the best part of the movie.  

Dr. McNichols Discussion

 Dr. McNichols talked about many different things that are related to that of the mexican culture. She talked about the history of mexico, how the women of mexico used to be treated, magical realism and the food of the mexican culture. Her talk is related to our film and topic because our film takes place in Mexico and contains a lot of mexican culture and history within it. Also our film is in the style of magical realism. Our film is taking place within the 1900s which plays a huge part in the plot and what happens to the characters and what they are talking about within the film. I found this film to be very interesting, because when  Dr. McNichols was talking about how the women were being mistreated. I thought it was the men of the world mistreating them. In reality or at least within the movie it was the mother of the daughter mistreating her. The mother was only doing this because she was keeping up with the culture of what she is used to. I thought it was pretty cruel that just because she was the last born daughter of the family she wasn't able to marry the love of her life. What made matters worse was the fact that her sister was the one that married the love of her life. So while her sister got to live her life the youngest daughter had to be mistreated by the mother. I found this story to be very similar to that of Cinderella the way she was the only one that had to have a hard time. What I also found interesting was the role that food had within this film. It was almost as if food was what underlyingly drove the movie. In many of the scenes you always saw the characters either cooking or eating something. The characters even talked about food in casual conversations. An example of this was when the mother was talking to the doctor about how her daughter and her newly wedded husband should move to texas. She makes a reference to drinking chile without water. Overall i thought this was a very good film. The one problem i had with the film was the way it transitioned. It was as if a lot of the movie was being left out. One second there was a baby being born and the next cut a year has passed. I think they could have done a better job with the cuts and how they progressed the movie. If they were going to do it this way they could have at least made it known that they were jumping this fast. If not then add more so we as the viewers can actually see the progression.