Amelie

This was a difficult movie to watch as I spent most of my time reading the subtitle, instead of being able to watch the actually picture.  I did catch that the color green was strongly portraded in the movie, along with the rich colors of red in her bedroom.  Her bedroom had two portraits one of a dog and the other a goose wearing pearls.  The setting in the film was set to an old world French theme, which of course makes sense seeing the movie was French.  They showed a lot of subjective filming in this show with filming so close to Amelie's face, which always seemed to be just straight or smiling.  Which brings me to the fact that she seemed to really enjoy hearing others have sex, or even at the beginning where she was laughing slightly while have sex. The part where her mother dumped the gold fish into the stream and the fish staring straight back up to Amelie, showed the bonded connection she so much desired to have with another.

They always seemed to produce all the right emotions at the right time throughout the movie, like when she heard the boy being made fun of, she would go do things to the owner of the produce shop, where she shopped, and do things to the items in his apartment, to make him think he was going crazy, I'll have to admit this part in the movie made me feel good, as to someone teaching someone a lesson, although it didn't seem to effect him to much, he just kept picking at the boy.

While Amelie had gotton this strong sense to start helping people, she really wanted to make sure that her father would get the help also, by taking that gnome of his and having someone create pictures of different parts of world with the gnome in it, and then returning the gnome back to it's original spot.  I think she did this to show her dad that it would be ok for him to travel to all those places he and her mother wanted to travel too, and still beable to return home.  It made me feel sad that in the beginning her father told her, they never traveled because of her heart condition, when in contrast she never really had a condition, it was her excitment of getting the little bit of attention from her father.  I think her father and mother had a little bit of OCD (obsessive complusive disorder), and in turn which probably made Amelie get the complusion to help others.

During her spout with the glass man, trying to help him paint the portrait of the woman in his picture, she was really telling him about herself and her feelings.  When the glass man finally figured out that she was talking about herself, he in turned helped her move forward in getting with Nino and why she should reveal herself to him.

She was really intrigued by Nino and the way he collect portraits of people, that he didn't even know.  I think it took her so long to reveal herself to him because of her past, and the way her parents raised her without that longing affection a child needs. It was also funny how she ended up showing Nino that the mystery man rally was just the picture booth fixer. Although she fell in love with Nino without really getting to know him first.  How much it upset her to think he had gone out to be with someone else, while the whole time they were out searching to find her.  When the two finally met face to face, they showed it in such slow motion with them kissing each other on the cheek, neck and above the eye, you could just feel the tension leading up to them being together in a very passionate, loving way.  I like how they ended the movie with them two riding off to live happly ever after.