chocolat: parallels

Chocolat

France looks at her dad’snotebook.

Learning the language.

Driving in colonial Africa.

Post-colonial Cameroon.

Mungo and France both come to Africa to find their roots.

“My little chickadee.”

The servants’ shower.

Two scenes in the engine room.

1. Protee picks up France and brushes off her feet.

2. France burns her hand.

Playing games.

Protee throws Luc out of thehouse.

Aimee throws Protee out of the house.

Protee rejects Aimee.

Mungo rejects France.

Protee severes his relationshipwith France.

Mungo cannot read France’sscarred palms.

France eating with Protee,later with the cook.

France watches two planestake off.

1. Leaving the organ behind.

2. Loading African art (for export?).

Marc explains the horizon to France: “When you look at the hills beyond the houses and beyond the trees where the earth touches the sky, that’s the horizon. Tomorrow in the daytime I’ll show you something. The closer you get to that line, the farther it moves. If you walk toward it, it moves away. It flees from you. I must also explain this to you. You see the line. You see it, but it doesn’t exist.”