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Chocolate: the movie

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Vaughan | 11:21 UK time, Friday, 24 October 2008

No, not a film about the sweet, sugary stuff. Even better than that. Chocolate (warning: Flash-intensive site with pop-ups) is a new Thai martial arts movie, out in cinemas now, So why are we on Ouch! interested in it? Well, because the central female character has autism - and her disability is very much part of the reason why she's a particularly genius fighter.

Oh, and as if that wasn't enough, this review mentions: "a simply extraordinary sequence in which she has to fight a boy-warrior who appears to have some sort of neurological convulsive disorder akin to cerebral palsy, and she must intuit and imitate his tics in order to pre-empt his moves". Genius.

I'm getting tempted to take up martial arts now, too ...

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  • 1. At 1:35pm on 24 Oct 2008, SheffTim wrote:

    Trailer for Chocolate is on YouTube.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGjUyu9c8Ng
    She (Jeena) looks awsome. Thai cinema is starting to get noticed internationally now. The big martial arts star is Tony Jaa (Warrior King, Ong-Bak) and Jeeja, the star of Chocolate, is being groomed to be a big female action star.

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  • 2. At 1:43pm on 24 Oct 2008, Vaughan - host wrote:

    Hi Shefftim - Thanks for the link. It does look like a fantastic film. Just a warning, though, to any Ouch! readers planning to view the trailer that it does - being a martial arts film - contain lots of violence. So if that doesn't appeal to you, don't click through to watch it.

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