Essay About Vianne’S Desire And Josephine’S Wish

Chocolat – Desire, What Is It?
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There is so much desire presented in this film, from Josephine’s wish to leave her husband and live freely, to the Comte de Reynaud trying to keep the town in order and follow Lent as it’s always been. Its Vianne’s desire, though, that I would like to focus on. Vianne moves from town to town following in her mother’s footsteps spreading their love of chocolate, and finding new flavours. When Vianne and her daughter Anouk moved to a small French village, things got interesting. Her desire is to find out people’s favourite chocolate by using a spinning wheel. Spinning wheel to choose their favourite chocolate. The whole movie she was trying to find out what Roux’s favourite chocolate is but couldn’t guess it. Then right at the end she makes him a hot chocolate and he says, “Finally you guessed it.”   Vianne was not religious at all and had little care towards it, however this village was all about religion and following it strictly. They moved to the village to set up a Chocolat shop. The Comte de Reynaud went and asked her what she was setting up and told her it was risky to do such a thing during Lent and that she wouldn’t get any business. The Comte de Reynaud was not prepared for what was coming his way. Vianne really stood her ground and listened to nothing the people were saying to her. They viewed her as an immoral, that she had a lack of decency, faith, commitment and discipline. When all she was doing was fulfilling her desires. Josephine was one of Vianne’s customers, and they became very close. Josephine told Vianne that, “You dont misbehave here. Its just not done, did you know that? If you dont go to confession, if you dont… dig your flowerbeds, or if you dont pretend, if you dont pretend… that you want nothing more in your life than to serve your husband three meals a day, and give him children, and vacuum under his ass, then… then youre… then youre crazy.”