Chocolate: a movie about Autism and determination.......

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I just watched the movie 'Chocolate'

Not the Johnny Depp one released in 2000, the Thai movie released last year about an Autistic Muay Thai boxer.

I'm not sure if 'savant' is a precise description of the main character, but she becomes an expert Muay Thai boxer without ever taking a single lesson.

The DVD version that I watched, included a tribute to special people with Autism at the beginning of the feature.

Worth a look.

The actress is very acrobatic and like many Asian performers.. she did all her own stunts. I seen it a few months ago and cannot remember the overall plot.. so the martial arts/action overshadowed the storyline.

The lead character spent two years in training as a Thai boxer and it certainly was a high action movie.

I thought the style of the movie was more HK Chinese than Thai and I didn't find that the action overshadowed the storyline, which portrayed a very different perspective of the country in which the movie was (mostly) set.

There is also a sequence right at the beginning of the movie that suggests that the Japanese father of the kick boxing prodigy had Asperger's.

I was quite astonished that this film was even made in the Far East, where disabilities tend to be ignored (or hidden) and certainly not discussed.

There was rather a lot more to this movie than action, but having said that, great action

I want to see it. It would be a nice change up from Rain Man.