Film tittle: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poussain
Running time: 120 minutes
Starring: Audrey Tautou,
Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Yolande Moreau, Dominique
Pinon, Flora Guiet
Amelie Poulain was raised by
eccentric parents who believing erroneously that she had a heart defect
prevented her from meeting other children. She was home schooled by her mother.
She developed an active imagination and fantasy life to cope with her loneliness.
After the death of her mother and her father's subsequent withdrawal from
society, Amelie leaves home and becomes a waitress at Cafe des 2 Moulins in
Montmartre, staffed and frequented by a collection of eccentrics. Spurning
romantic relationships after a few disappointing efforts, she finds contentment
in simple pleasures and letting her imagination roam free.
Amelie is much more than a feel-good
film for romantics and dreamers. It is, as one viewer has commented, almost a
necessity for peace in this worlds. Indeed, in this era of globalized ethical
decline “Amelie” is a film that almost begs those who have corporatised their
souls and succumbed to mean-spirited intolerance to once again their humanity.
What i can say by watching this movie for the first
time, is like nothing. I don't even know what are the movie is going on. The
truth is, i need to re-view this movie again to understand the plot of the
story. After re-view this movie, what i can say is, Amelie is a such great
movie because the story line are so neat and the timing that they use in this
movie also nice. The narrative structure is carefully worked out to maintain
interest and suspens. Brief flashbacks from different characters’s lives or
daydreams suddenly emerge in the present reality, making ordinary people and
events much less simple and down to earth. The different themes covered are so
numerous that to put in a nutshell, it is possible to say that this film deals
with life. In addition, this movie not just using the actors who play the role,
but also using the narrator to complete the story in this movie.
Other than that, the song that they
use to make the viewer put more feeling through this movie quite beautiful. But
the thing is viewers unfamiliar with French will likely have a hard time, for
the images and dialogue zip past unrelentingly. The construction is so
meticulous in both writing and execution that it may take several time to
understand what an achievement it truly is.
This film is like an apology of all
the little things that make life beautiful but which our hardnes ways make us
pass by and miss out. It also celebrates love, insisting that the happiness it
brings is worth risking the pain that may subsequently result from it.
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