Sunday, September 11, 2011

Amelie

I recently watched the movie Amelie, and I have to say that it was very interesting.  Not so much with the story but with the sub titles.  That was the first movie that I watched were you had to read the sub titles, however the movie was actually pretty good.  I liked this romantic comedy because its actually kind of cool to see a movie from another country and see the different life styles.

It was interesting watching this movie cause it was basically like reading a living book, and in some cases it was hard to take in some of the effects of the film because you had to read the entire time but it was still a solid movie.

In the movie, "Amelie" was out to seach for love because she didn't ahve the opportunity to experience it as a little girl. Her father, who was a doctor that kept his distance from amelie, so he was not there to show love for her, and her mother who was a school teacher, also was not around enough to truly show appreciation. Her mom died in this movie, and it may have possibly been the weirdest way I could even think of dying. A man jumped from the Nortre Dame and killed her. I just think that the director may have been able to come up with a little bit better story line if they were set on having this character die.

As she became older, her father grew even more distant and Amelie wanted to find love, but as a result of her childhood was really just incredibly shy and never really had the opportunity to learn how not to be. As the movie goes on she starts to really help people just to simply see them smile. Eventually, she runs into a man named  "Nino" and she really tries to mingle with him several times but she is just way to nervous and shy. As the movie continues, she keeps giving Nino clues and hints that would lead him to her. Eventually, Nino finally shows up at her resturant, but Amelie is way to shy to say anything to him. So one of amelies friends takes nino aside and sees if he is a good man for amelie. Because of this there is now the rumor that amelies friend Gina is now dating him which is not the case. Amelie is heart broke but finds out the truth and finally meets up with Nino.

This movie had some amazing film techniques in it. In reading chapter 5 I learned about something called "fish eye". Its wear the lense makes it look almost a round appearance. I saw many of these suddle shots in this movie wich gave it a different affect. Also the different types of close up shots were incredibly clear. This was a definitly a different movie in the aspect that it was filmed in much thought and detail. I think that because this movie was so different was why I enjoyed watching it, because if it was just another film filmed in LA with american actors I don't think it would have been near as interesting the watch.

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