Slave labor, of course, is unacceptable in any form. But what about cocoa or something? The film is embarrassing and offers no solutions. The problem of cocoa plantations is strangely argued. There are no interviews with plantation workers. It is probably difficult to contact them. But because of this understatement, credibility is lost. The viewer is presented not with facts, but with rumors told by people who are not directly involved in the production: parents desperate to find their children, frightened girls, a fisherman and, of course, a guy sculpting bricks. An interview with a paralyzed man is even more embarrassing: it is not clear who he is, where he worked, is his disease somehow connected with the production of cocoa? But his interview is accompanied by filming a lame goat. If you believe a guy who makes bricks, it's all about pesticides.
Most of the film is about Europeans and Americans. Like all people of the Western mindset, they smile a lot, obsessed with gadgets, consumption or eco-products. They're happy to do what they do: the chocolate business, the chocolate city adore, some people even want to put their chocolate in space! We see only dreamers with some ignorance of the full cycle of cocoa beans.
All this confusion: unhappy African children, chocolate, happy white people... Why would you put so much paint around chocolate? A tragic answer will be given only in the last minutes of the film.