Integrative Studio Week 2- 13/01/20
For this week’s class, we were shown a French film, Amélie.
What i liked about the film?
What i loved the most was the way it was presented that how Amelie’s origins and the forces shaped her soul. Another thing i liked was when she discovers a box hidden away in her apartment containing a boy’s treasured possessions, she decides to return these to the owner and reunite him with his box of childhood memories. It was very kind of her to help the blind man and show him what he can’t. The gratitude of the owner makes her commit further random acts of kindness. Amelie decides to play matchmaker for a lonely co-worker and a man who frequents the restaurant where she works. Also the father-daughter relationship transformation was portrayed beautifully when in order to motivate her father to spread his wings, Amelie steals his prized garden gnome and photographs the gnome in front of various landmarks from around the world. Amelie’s actions pay off when her father makes the decision to travel the world.
What i disliked about the film?
The only fact that made me lose my thin patience was that the movie was stretched a little too long than needed and also the fact that the pace of the film wasn’t balanced very well. At times it was rushing while at others it was stretching.
Most entertaining and funny moments:
The film was quite entertaining keeping in mind all the humor and the weirdness in the film.
The most funny moments were:
- When Amelie’s mother died due to the event of someone else’s suicide mission.
- When she seeks revenge on the grocer’s cruelty by hijacking his apartment.
- The entire cafe shaking to it’s extreme and Amélie releasing steam from the espresso machine.
- And many more, the whole film was mostly funny to me.
What about Amelie appealed me?
What appealed me the most was how Amelie was a mixture of all the different traits. She is sweet and soft-spoken as well as very creative and courageous. Even her spontaneity portrayed is admirable as is her lust for life, her whimsical imagination and her want for others to be happy as she knows how it feels to lose the important things in life because she herself lost so much due to early death of here mother, untouchable father, and also the fact of her being home schooled and bought up in a different environment.
How does the film talk about the places, the city and the people and why how they have been portrayed?
The film brings out the essence of each place to the depth of it. The narrator of the film has described each space in the city running in the film fully, filling us with all the necessary information. Each places has surprised us with all the different events of the film. The movie has presented the city to be full of people among whom most of them are suffering from loneliness.
The narrator has described the characters precisely to create an image of them in our minds before we even get to them in the film. The characters themselves have their own quirks and social issues ranging from mental problems to disabilities. One character, Dufayel, is a hermit and will not leave his apartment. Another is a cafe dweller, Joseph, who stalks his ex-girlfriend and makes recordings of her every move due to his own jealous nature. The their is Amelie’s love interest in the story, Nino who works in a sex shop who could be viewed as unusual and offbeat, particularly when he mentions to a colleague that doctors believed he ate his twin in the womb. Lastly, Amelie is portrayed to be a very lonely and isolated person, particularly during her childhood where her only friend is a suicidal fish but at the same time her being a kind hearten human helping others to find their happiness.
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