Amelie - A Truly Charming Delight!

Art hasn't been so creatively portrayed like this before. Amelie displays masterful creativity but Audrey Tautou's irresistible cuteness truly charms our hearts. The cutest film I've seen to date, it's a must-see for viewers who wish to watch a light-hearted film that also mainly expresses a deep message - to enjoy the simple pleasures in life. Jean-Pierre Jeunet attempts to teach us this message in similar but clever ways that cognate with Amelie's character's clever, sneaky but charming methods of expressing her feelings. Throughout the film, particularly in the beginning and in the end, the narrator narrates small events that seem insignificant, but are actually "the simple pleasures in life."...

In deeper analysis, though Amelie and her love Nino Quincampoix do not seem similar at all in the beginning, as Amelie begins and continues to perform anonymous good deeds for people, helping them restore their shambled lives back to pieces, with a help of a neighbor she realizes her life is also in shambles and that only she can piece it together. Similarly, Nino gathers the ripped pieces of photos random people take of themselves at photo booths and he successfully attempts to piece each person's photos back together. (The people who take their photos at the photo booth probably take their pictures and when they don't like them they rip them to shreds; in other words, when people reflect back on themselves and don't like what they see (get a reality check) they rip it up and don't accept their reality). When Amelie retrieves Nino's fallen album of these random people's ripped photos, she sees the meaning behind these photos and realizes that many people's lives are in "shambles." With this book she becomes inspired to help those around her and begin her good-deed quests. Though this is explained in the movie, I thought this was a notable symbol: her neighbor Raymond Dufayel, also called the "glass man" because of his extremely delicate skeleton declared that Amelie didn't have a glass skeleton "because she could take the knocks of life." This could have also been his subtle encouragement towards Amelie to make her confess her attraction to her love Nino.