Movie: Chocolate

Chocolate is about an autistic daughter who has developed uncanny martial arts skills from the Muay Thai house next door and from watching TV. She is also the daughter of a former gangster woman Zin and a rival Yakuza heir Masashi. When both Zin and Masashi part ways after Zin’s boss forbids her to, Zin is left with the task of bringing up their autistic daughter Zen. After some trials and adopting a son named Moom, Zin finds out that she has cancer. With no money to pay for it they find a list of debtors in the ailing woman’s diary.

Zen and Moom attempt to make money to pay for these treatments by having people throw balls at her as a street performer (in which she catches with amazing skill). Unfortunately they are not able to earn enough to keep up with the treatments. One day, Moom discovers a list of debtors in an old notebook, from the days when Zin was a high-interest moneylender under the Thai gangster known as No. 8. Things then turn a bit choppy when Zen decided she wants that money. In collecting all the debts, they collect the interest of No. 8. Various battles ensue and Zen must fight for the money that could help her mom.


This movie in my opinion was interesting. I bought it for the martial arts. And it delivered. I like how the director was the man who did “Ong-Bak” and “The Protector”. He had a vision after working with Tony Jaa that was basically like this: ‘Hm….let’s have a movie where a woman does all this martial arts badassery!’ It came out pretty well. I wasn’t too sure on the autistic part of the movie, but that was integrated in seamlessly. Personally, if he didn’t put it in there, I don’t think it would have been as badass as it was.

The storyline was much to left desired. I think they could have developed that a bit more, but the martial arts makes up for the lack of. I think it’s pretty interesting that they forced the actress Jeeja Yanin to go through two years of training before hand, and then two years through the whole time of shooting. That must have been difficult. And from what I saw, she did her own stunts. That’s amazing. I wish I could do stuff like that.