2008 · action · martial arts · drama
Chocolate
Directed by Prachya Pinkaew1h 33m2008
Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.
Our read: Chocolate (2008) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · martial arts · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / martial arts, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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