Comments on: Chocolate (2008) Movie Review

By: Uiku

Uiku — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:28:44 +0000

I sorta heard of this film on forums and I decided to watch it a few days ago.
Eventhough I’m not really into the genre or even movies at all, to me this is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, or atleast the first one in a long while to get me truly excited. It is only the second low budget martial-arts film I’ve watched so it reminded me of how much more I like to see this type of choreography without special effects.
But I think the main reason for me getting excited over this movie is the fact that being autistic myself I could truly identify myself with zen’s character.
My own childhood wasn’t all that great because of it so it did hurt at some points in watching but that just shows that the autistic part has been done unexpectedly well. Looking at zen was often just like watching myself as a little kid. And even the part that she learns all that stuff from watching films and people is typically autistic and reminds me of what I’ve learned to do simply by watchin, listening and observing.

By: Uiku

Uiku — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:17:05 +0000

well actually the chance that an autistic girl is able to learn that much from just watching stuff is far higher than it is for normal people. I’ll admit that I am tryin to keep the image a bit higher as I’m born with a varient of autism myself but that only means that I know what I’m talking about.
I agree with you that it isn’t likely to happen, but it is still more likely to happen with an autistic girl. Autism often gives in social skills for amazing other skills.

By: Dwayne Stanislous

Dwayne Stanislous — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:55:08 +0000

It is the greatest martil arts film I have seen this year. The little girl breaks this old mans heart.. I have only one child…a lil girl 4 ft 9 in. and 90 lb. soaking wet with a pockt full of rocks.My daughter is 30 and single. She lives by herself and I always take her to the pistol rang and show her a few puches.

By: GreasyMonk

GreasyMonk — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:16:31 +0000

I just bought and watched this movie. The fight scenes are really good but the story is meh.. A “special” girl wouldn’t be able to pull off such moves in real life. I’m not trying to offend anyone here but it just wouldn’t happen in real life. When she’s fighting, she seems like she’s just a normal girl. None the less, this movie is still worth watching if you are into Ong Bak and the sequel.

Btw, watch IP Man from Donnie Yen if you haven’t watched it yet. That movie is like the best KungFu Movie I’ve seen this year so far.

By: Harosa

Harosa — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:10:01 +0000

I imported this a few months back on a region free Thai DVD because the trailer looked so good and was totally taken in by the action and the main actress but even without English subs i could tell the main storyline dragged on and on which is a shame because i hate having to tell people that a storyline is unimportant and to see a movie just for the fight scenes but that seems to be the case with a lot of these great recent Thai movies, the action is hot to death but you can skip the main story. Import some editors and music people, hell even some scriptwriting help from the US while you’re at it, the Thai seem to be willing to throw themselves off of a mountain to make some cool action scenes, they need to be in better made films.