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Rating:  - Whimsical and Imaginative
Amelie is a beautiful movie to watch, for starters. It has vibrant colors, shapes, and tons of flashbacks and quirky moments. This isn't a movie that's meant to look realistic. It's like a painting, meant to extract emotion and feeling. In this case, it works quite well. As many say, this is indeed a very charming film.The story is simple and sweet. A young woman, who has lived in solitude but still has the ability to smile as she observes life discovers something extraodinary; a little box of treasures that belonged to the person who last lived in her appartment. It is decades old and filled with memories. She makes a decision to find the owner of the box. If he is touched by this act and finds joy in his memories being returned to him, she would continue to help people and make their lives better. He is touched, and the story takes off from there. But there is one last question the movie asks us to consider. Is Amelie herself happy? She creates complicated ways of helping people, but they never meet her. Is she really lonely and looking to improve her life as well? The DVD quality is great. Watching this movie really draws you into another world, and of course plenty of credit must go to the clear and eye pleasing quality that comes with this movie. The extras are quite nice as well, with a collection of posters, an interview with the director, and an explanation on the unique cinematography of the the film. Also, there seem to be issues over why the movie is rated R. Simple. It has scenes that depict [explicits]. All in all, these are fairly innocent and I'd recommend the film for anyone fifteen and up. With no violence and cursing, there's little to find offensive.
Rating: - one of the sweetest movie ever made
.Beware.Once you `ll see this movie you won't be able to resist to Amelie Poulain after that.You 'd like to own it so you can watch it over and over again.My 3 years old loves it and so do I.
A funny, nostalgic movie with a pinch of sadness.Buy it NOW.
Rating: - Creatively Charming
The opening of this movie was a little bizzar, but it certainly got my attention. The characters in the movie are introduced by the narrator, who includes the odd things they do for a simple perk (ie: Amelie likes to dip her hand into a sack of beans at the market). Plus, I've never actually seen (or wanted to see) a baby popping out of its mother. That was a little bit of a shock.As I'm sure you've heard, Amelie is about a waitress that makes it her duty to help people without their knowledge. She's very introverted, which started because her father, a doctor, believed she had a heart problem and kept her home-schooled. Instead of meeting and talking to people, she kind of observes them from the background when she can. The first good deed she did was an accident. She discovers a box hidden behind a lose tile in her bathroom, and feels the need to return it, which begins the search for its owner. This leads to another thing, and another, and Amelie begins to get ideas and inspirations from everything around her. Her daydreams tend to be funny and oddly real (as in, the part most Americans keep tucked away for fear it will make them look idiotic), and her imagination is great. The settings and acting in this were fabulous as far as I understood, and the story was the type that leaves you oddly happy. When it was over, the only thing I was able to do was gush out, "Wow," to nobody in particular.
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