Chocolat

This movie is something that I never would have watched had it not been for class. I was so moved by it, I went and bought it. There are many themes in this movie that you can not glean from one time through.
A few of the elements that stood out in my eyes.
The Outcast: Not only was she not liked by the mayor but the townspeople also. It seems that for a while the only people that would speak to her in more than passing were sort of outcasts themselves. One was a woman who refused to accept that she was dying. She decided that she would do what she damn well pleased until it was her time to go. The other was a woman who willingly broke the vows of her marriage after she was broken several times, physically and mentally.
Through all of this, she was the agent of change that brought the town joy and broke them out of the boredom of routine.

The Iron-Fisted Leader: This man would stop at nothing to exert his authority. He was even writing the sermons for the minister. It is a shame that he couldn't use his powers for good. Clearly he was a disciplined, man on a mission. If you give a missile direction, it is deadly.

The Old Faithful: These are the towns people that bought into the myth preached by the mayor. They were strictly business as usual. They were not into things that disrupted the fabric of the existence that they had created for themselves. Surely, the mayor wasn't the only person that was fully on board with the way that the town was run or there would have been revolts.

The Damsel in Distress: She clearly needs to be freed from a prison from which she thought there was no escape. She followed all of the rules and hated it with every ounce of her being. She did it because she didn't have confidence enough in herself to know that she had options. Along comes a free-spirited stranger selling chocolates that would empower her to break free from the jail that was her marriage.