Referral index ★★★
Director: Russ Holstrom
Starring: Juliet Binoch, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina
The story tells of a winter that took place in the late 50s. The north wind blew, and Vian took her 6-year-old daughter to a calm and isolated French town. Then a chocolate shop with a unique flavor was opened here, and the mayor and priest used various methods to prevent the residents from visiting Vivian's shop and try to drive her out of the town forever.
But Vian used her wisdom and enthusiasm to succeed in getting the townspeople to accept Vian, and the old forces represented by the mayor were defeated.
The film tells a warm and simple story in a diary-style way, but behind the story is a cruel history.
The Gypsies, like the Jews, were wandering peoples. Continental Europe is home to the largest number of Gypsies and the longest-wandering region. But the lands where the Gypsies lived for hundreds of years never really recognized them. Like the Jews, Gypsies have been expelled, discriminated against, and even killed in the countries of continental Europe for centuries.
The 15th and early 18th centuries were a period of transition in Europe from a traditional medieval society to a modern society. A series of major events such as the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Technological Revolution all took place during this period, but the Gypsies, who originated from the nomadic peoples of northern India and began to enter Europe in the early 1400S AD, endured the persecution of paganism by Christianity during the period of change in Western thought toward enlightenment.
This persecution not only threatened and coerced the Jews, Arabs, Moors and other peoples to change their original way of life, but also gave rise to the trend of "witch hunting" in Europe, which is often referred to as "witch trial" or "witch hunting".
The "witches" mentioned here are actually a group of ordinary women who have been innocently framed and planted. All women became the object of suspicion, frame-ups and revenge pervaded Europe, and some even framed or retaliated against ordinary women for compensation.
And the so-called witch trial doesn't require any investigative forensic process at all, thinking that you are, you are. Cruel punishments followed. Some women could not bear the torture, frankly "admitted" their satanic contracts, and attended Pluto's evenings. But after they confessed, they were sentenced to capital punishment.
The European witch hunt, which eventually evolved into a tragic persecution of women, lasted nearly 300 years and led to the tragic deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not more, of women over a three-century period.
Esmeralda, the heroine of Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, was eventually accused of stabbing the captain of the guard with witchcraft and was sentenced to hanging. I have to say it has to do with the fact that she is a gypsy girl.
It's a dark history, and it's a sad one. This is no longer the ignorance of thought, but the evil of the human heart.
Everyone is driven by the Satan of the heart, and the intellect has long been lost, and some are just this carnival full of fear, hatred, and excitement. It was an excuse for an emotional release, but under the distortion of human nature, it became a massacre of women and so-called infidels.