Chocolat

There are no words in the English language to fully convey the experience of having one's senses stirred by a chocolate square. It is an art, a blessing which only the privileged can enjoy.
In chocolat, Robert Jacobs tries to evoke in the viewers a deeper understanding of the sensual pleasures of chocolate to which a supressed town eventually succumbs to. As one watches the various characters in the movie chomp, suck and savour chocolate in its various forms, the viewer without realising smacks his lips in anticipation, only to discover a frustrating emptiness. But movies are movies and no media can completely recapture the sensuality of a chocolate experience.
For a true chocoholic, the sensual experience begins with the selection of chocolate. I maintain that nothing but dark bitter chocolate would do do for a true coinosseur but that does not in anyway make other chocolate experiences any less sensual. It is all a matter of taste. A chocolate is a pleasure beyond description or explanation. But I digress. The selection of chocolate demands imagination for if one were not to imagine the bitter sweet taste of the chocolate melting in the mouth, how would the sensualist know which would gratify his perked up senses?
The selection done, all that is left is to find a place condusive to the indulengce at hand. What more can one want more in life that to sit by a lakeside or stand over a bridge and look down on the rolling waters as you gingerly unwrap the foil and take the first tentative bite of the chocolate. Some people argue that savouring the entire square is how chocolate is meant to be eaten. But I like to make the good things last. And am content with mouse sized bites of my chocolate square, where I can enjoy the sensation of slowly warming, thick chocolate coating the roof and insides of my mouth as it melts. Aaah. The sheer pleasure. Undescribable. As also is the sense of joy which steals over my body as the serotonin transmits messages of happiness and wellbeing to my mind...As if I have been enveloped in a great bear hug by an warm glowing outside force.