Chocolat Essay

In Claire Denis’ film, Chocolat, the relationship between the colonized and colonizers is focused to show each side’s perspective of view. This is seen between the relationship of Aimee, a young French mother, and Protee, a servant of Aimee’s family who speaks out for the colonizers and colonized, in the respect. The film is set in a limited, isolated space, the quarters where the characters reside, in order to focus on Aimee’s and Protee’s emotions and behavior to further enhance the relationship between the colonized and colonizers. Denis Narrates incorporates the film with emotions, which adds empathy & affection to the characters and also to the audience in order to show how each side’s perspective. In 43:40, Aimee is seen smoking a cigarette in her room out of frustration. She turns her head and the camera’s perspective turns to Protee, who is organizing Aimee’s clothes. Aimee walks over to her sewing …show more content…
Here, the brick wall acts as a boundary between Protee, who is in public, and Aimee, who is in private. As soon as Protee climbs back down, the soapy water is immediately poured out of the drain and the camera, which acts as Protee’s eyes, quickly switches perspective on the water damping the dry dirt. Protee drops the silver buckets and kicks them out of frustration. Water is a precious source of life for the indigenous people in Africa and when Protee was filling the water tank, he uses two buckets of water and we don’t know whether he used more due to the size of the water tank. Aimee, who represents the colonizers, wastes a good amount of water that could be used for other purposes by the indigenous people. This angers Protee, the colonized, who saw the large amount of water being wasted and also the boundary being