Chocolat Movie Reflection

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Today I watched the movie Chocolat. As a baker myself I was drawn to this movie due to the fact that the main character Vianne was a chocolatier. I really enjoyed this movie and would suggest anyone who has not seen it to watch it. The movie was mainly about Vianne moving from city to city with her daughter Anouk. They moved to a small village where she opened a chocolate shop. The townspeople we weary of her at first but most of them quickly warmed up to her. The town 's count did not warm up to her until the very end of the movie but he was trying to get her out of the village for most of the movie. He gossiped heavily with the townspeople trying to make her look bad and tried to turn the townspeople against her using the minister and the …show more content…

She transformed her former husbands grimy bar into a bright wonderful looking cafe.
Vianne did not continue her education in anyway but Josephine did sort of become a supervisor and although it is not technical training I believe it was a valuable lesson for her to train some employees of her own, and know what it was like to manage people. I believe she also learned the coaching aspect of training employees from Vianne because it seemed like they did have the same training approach.
I believe that Vianne was a good supervisor. She provided a lot of positive reinforcement …show more content…

They only showed a few scenes of her teaching Josephine but it seemed like she was patient with her and was willing to coach her through learning the chocolate business. I would have liked to see more of the training process and maybe see where Vianne ordered her products. The village seemed like it was out by itself and it was based in the 1950 's, I don 't believe it was as easy to export or get food deliveries as easily as we can now.
The only mention of cost in the movie was once when a customer asked how much a particular product was Vianne told her it was $4.50. Although we didn 't really know what was in it or how much it cost to make it, or even where her products came from. She did have some expensive ingredients and it would have been nice for a different point of view to explain the origin a little more. I also believe that the pricing is probably not accurate, it seems like her products should cost more than that taking into account the ingredients that she did use.
All and all I very much enjoyed this movie. I have watched a lot of “foodie” movies over the years but have not really thought of them in the way of looking how the kitchens and shops were

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