Chocolat parallels Allegory of
The Movie Chocolat is yet another story which parallels Plato's Allegory of the Cave. The story deals with a town full of people experiencing an awakening through the eating of chocolate.
Vianne and her daughter open up a Chocolaterie in a small French town during the season of lent. They are met with stiff opposition from the mayor because of this and because they do not attend church. Slowly, the townspeople begin to visit the …
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…served in the Chocolaterie allows people to let their inhibitions go and enjoy themselves. The feel free and they open up their minds to another way of life. It is an awakening for them just as showing the men the real world was in Allegory of the Cave and sexual experimentation was in Pleasantville. Vianne lets the townspeople realize what they are missing. She changes a town forever and the town also forever changes her.
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