Film O Fabulous Destiny by Amélie Poulain: summary and analysis
A French romantic comedy, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and released in 2001, is an enchanting and inescapable work that still amazes the world inside. Amélie Poulain, the protagonist, is a young sleeper and lonely who finds a special object.
Interpreting descoberta as a sinal, she resolves to interfere in everyone's life, as a goal of helping those who emerge from it.
Memories of a peculiar childhood
A history began in 1973, as the birth of the protagonist, Amélie Poulain. We are invited to attend various moments of her childhood and her family life. O pai de ella was an old military doctor who kept up distant relationship com a filha. For this reason, whenever the examinations, or the heart of the men, accelerated and passed to prove that she suffers from a heart condition.
For different reasons, he never went to school, living with a rigid education for me, a nervous and instable woman. Assim, a menina cresceu isolated, using a imagination as a refuge.
Be contacted with other children and refém de uma complicated family situation, his paixão of him and photographing new ones with curious formats. Not so, one day she attends a car accident and one vizinho fails that your photos of him will cause unhappiness.
Embora, she feels very guilty, she does not eat, she ends up discovering that it was only a jump and she resolves to go home. When he is selling a very important game of football, a garotinha sabotages the antenna of his television, raising or vizinho a ter a fury attack.
After some time, when we were leaving a cathedral, I was hit by a tourist that was launched from the top of the building and died at an hour. From daí, o pai, it becomes even more dated and is dedicated to painting shaving bones or gardens. Amélie, more sozinha do than ever, "sonha has just left."
A solitary life gives protagonist
Logo that she attaches to adulthood, Amélie vai dwell sozinha and he goes to work as a garçonete num chamado parisian cafe Deux Moulins. Not local, she coexists with some incommunicado figures, such as a patron who gave up love from a disaster with a trapezist or Georgette, a hypochondriac woman who sells cigarettes.
Or coffee also frequented by some regular clients: Hipolito, or melancholic writer, and Joseph, an old man in love with the garçonete Gina who was obsessed by her.
When she goes to visit or pai, she sees that he is becoming more and more alienated and sad. I know how to talk to each other and I will be interested in life, live lost nas saudades Da woman and spend days restoring a garden gnome. Amélie or advises to leave home and travel, more or more refuses.
They are family ties or friends, a girl also does not maintain loving relationships and lives an extreme solidão. To be distracted, ela grow you little prazeres It gives life, like going to a cinema de noite or observing details that other people do not repair.
It is also customary to spy or peel janela: it is about a homeless person who spends or day painting, let it be from a doença that we have not left home for years.
O tempo não mudou nada. Amélie continues to take refuge in solidão ...
Amélie found a "treasure"
Or narrator gives history warns that or destiny of the protagonist is ready to move. Tudo começa no day August 30, when Amélie is not banned and the news announces the death of Princess Diana of England. In shock, ela deixa fell to tampa with a perfume that demolished a tile and reveals a I hide na parede.
Inside, she finds a very old can and, with emotion, a barnacle that is reminiscent of a garoto who lived there decades before. Inspired, she decides that she will restore or "treasure" ao seu verdadeiro dono. And, depending on the result, it will resolve whether to interfere with other people's lives or not.
Na amanhã follows, she seeks zeladora do prédio, in search of information about or former inhabitant. Contudo, a woman just wanted to tell about her husband who abandoned her youth, and she read the many love letters that she received from him.
Then she is going to ask him to give me a blindfold, more or not that the thing is wrong. Depois de pesquisar, a moça creates a list of rights to visit, but none corresponds to pessoa certa.
Hair on my way, na estação do trem, see um homem down, looking for something underneath from an instant photo machine. Seus olhares crossed at times she, shy, follows in front of her. It is here that we meet Nino, someone with a past of bullying and violence at school, who lived apart from Amélie, but never met her.
Um novo amigo e uma missão Comprida
When she returned to the show she was called by Raymond Dufayel, or painter, who in the end also watched her throughout that time. Or Homem de Vidro, as he has learned, reveals that or is true to me that she is seeking: Bretodeau.
By showing the painting that he is producing, he tells that every year he grows or is the same painting of Renoir, the more he continues to be able to capture the expression of a woman who is drinking water. Amélie, who seems to identify herself as a figure, responds that maybe she "looks different from two others."
When she was little, she didn't have to jump a lot like other kids. Maybe never.
Through this indirect dialogue, they began to establish a friendship. The protagonist starts as a contact with Bretodeau and mounts an "armadilha" for him.
When homem is passing by, somebody plays bem on his side and he decides to come in to attend. This is how he acknowledges Latinha who belongs to his childhood. For seconds, you return to your memory: as uncovered, as humble, as segregated from childhood.
She knows how to regroup, she enters a bar and Amélie decides to spy on it, not balcony. Do nothing, or homem began to talk with her and told that something curious happened, it was not her day. Thanks to Isso, she has an epiphany and understands what she needs reatar os laços com to distant filha.
Nesse moment, the protagonist and invaded by a huge harmony and um "I wanted to help all of a sudden humanity". She chega to help a senhor cego to cross a street, unbelieving the details of all the costume and leaving the state of enchantment as the world.
Na mesma noite, that initial joy will dissipate and Amélie chora. She imagines that the people on television are commenting on her actions and feelings:
A Madrinha dos Enjeitales, ou Madona dos Unhappy, succumbs to extreme fatigue.
O photo album and seu mistério
When she returns to the train station, not the next day, she sees Nino one more time, trying something to do with the camera. Seu heart lights up e bat mais forte, eles se olham, mas o homem sai running behind someone.
Chasing an unfamiliar, part of his bike, more deixa um object cair. Amélie or recolhe and observe carefully: it is an album that gathers torn, torn, kneaded photos, which are not loose.
Amélie faces the collection as "a family album" and resolves to partilhar to descoberta as Homem de Vidro. Ali also exists um mystery to explain: o homem that Nino was chasing and someone who arises, always with the same expressão, in many photos.
A fertile imagination of Amélie begins to prove that it is a shadowy ghost or object. Even though she was able to discuss her feelings as a friend, she turned to talk about the moça do quadro and said that she might be thinking of someone special, that she is "similar to her."
Dufayel perceives that a young man is living a platonic love and seeks chamá-la à razão, maintaining the metaphor of painting:
She prefers to imagine herself in relationships with someone who is absent than to raise bonds such as those who are present.
The antics of Amélie Poulain
Ainda nessa talks, Dufayel asks Amélie or reason for wanting to solve "a bagunça dos outros", sublining that it is a form of escape two serious problems. However, without the ability to alter his own reality, the protagonist is determined to save life for other people.
First of all, to help or pai, she decides roubar seu garden gnome Favorite and deliver it for a conhecida that works as a flight attendant. Also, little time from "sequestro", begin to receive photographs of the object in various international tourist sites.
Já no work, a garçonete decides to agir like cupid and join two people who are always quite unhappy: Georgette and Joseph. She talks with both of them and gives hints about a possible mutual loving interest.
Dias depois, or plan gives results and you do live um I found a lot of cramped in full Deux Moulins. In the meantime, on the bank of journeys, Amélie lê a manchete on an old plane of correio that fell and was found, decades ofpois.
It is here that the rouba as chaves gives zeladora do prédio and face a copy. Then she invades the house and also faces copies of old love letters from women. Cutting and joining several passagens, ela forge uma nova letter, which would have been written as her husband's wife gives her departure.
Thanks to Isso, when she receives or he ran supposedly lost For many years, Madeleine's mood is totally altered. After a long period of depression, the viúva accredits that she was truly loved and becomes more joyful.
He came at the time of being seen from Collignon, or I don´t give a blindfold that Lucien is always humiliating, he is in love with her. Using a copy of her chaves, she began to invade home during the day, moving all of her place.
Bem-humorada, ela prega several peças: truck seus chinelos for a smaller size, cuts the cadarços of seus sapatos. bartered to toothpaste cream for feet, moved to position of maçaneta da porta.
As a tempo, the jumps became more and more disconcerting for him, who began to prove that he was going mad. By default, she goes to sleep, not work and leave Lucien in peace or all day.
Or the success of her armadilhas face Amélie standing up like a figure of Zorro, because she accredits that she is fighting justiça for my own.
Amélie leaves in search of love
Little years, I am going to be awakened for or wanting to live a paixão. When I read, no trem, a manuscript of Hipolito, she goes thinking not homem that she saw days before.
There is a particularly romantic phrase that calls attention to her and she repeats aloud:
Sem você, as emoções de hoje will be a pele morta das emoções do pasado.
Logo depois, she will find several parents in the station: e Child who is looking for her album and deixou a phone number. When she finally has the courage to flirt, she discovers what number of an adult product package is on.
Noticing that she is sad, or Homem de Vidro encourages her friend to run after love. Amélie decides to move to the local area, where she works, and talks as a functionary. Ela tells that Nino é um homem good-looking, but quite solitary: "São tempos difficult for dreamers".
Following as indicações, the protagonist leaves for another local work of Nino: or Trem Fantasma. Masquerade, he chooses to "astonish her" during the trip, bringing the two of her faces closer, but he does not know how to burn that woman.
Nino começa to procure Amélie
Not at the end of the shift, Nino found a ticket on his bike, marking a found for the next day. His enthusiasm and curiosity are evident and we are perceiving that or homem tem uma similar imagination com a da protagonist.
Chegada a manhã, Amélie links to the one of um orelhão and indicates various mushrooms and clues that she must follow for achá-la. Disfarçada, with oculi and language in the head, it is present when it is very long and depois foge, deixando or album on a bicycle.
The days that follow, you two correspond through errands that trocam pelas da estação walls. When she is going to shoot a photo dressed as Zorro to leave her new friend, she ends up unraveling the mystery: or "Ghost", at the end, or technical equipment.
Before leaving or local, she rips the photograph into pieces: na image, she secures a plate as or straightens the coffee where she works.
Depois de achar and together as peças, Nino goes to or Deux Moulins. Sem get to go to him, a girl or observe from perto and disfarça.
To be reconquered, she he ends up hiding, but ask Gina to leave a ticket, not give her a bag. When she sees her indo, Amélie feels that she has lost a huge amount of face, as she melts as soon as she is in her presence.
Win or medo (with help from a friend)
Disbanding as Homem de Vidro, lead him to take on the cliffs and the courage. Indignant, a young sonha that the TV reporter gives reason to her attitude:
Amélie preferred to live I do not dream of being an introverted girl and a direct little girl. Ravage one's own life is a direito inalienável.
Ready to help Nino to unveil or mystery do Fantasma, Amélie causes a problem with no equipment and league for the technician. When you check out the station it is not time that you indicate the ticket, Nino finds or home, finally, discovers his identity from him.
This is where he returns to Deux Moulins and talks with Gina, to another garçonete. Depois of several questions, to mulher passa o endereço da protagonista e ele decide to visit the. Amélie is chorando and imagining a life to dois when she sees somebody batting na porta.
Percebendo quem is there, the não tem courage to open. Nino places a bilhete underneath the door, faking that he is going to turn.
She saw or loved leaving, pela janela, I tied her to receive a Dufayel link that changes everything. Num excited speech, He tells a friend that it is urgent to take advantage of her life, I also know that she bruises her hair:
Você não tem os ossos de vidro. It can support the baques gives life. This chance will be passed, as a tempo, your heart will be dry and broken like meus ossos... Go ahead!
Or find two lovers and a happy ending
Amélie opens the door of the house, ready to run with Nino, but a barnacle that he turned back and is on the other side. Sem conversrem, dois se beijam no rosto, nos nos, nos testas e só depois na boca.
Na manhã Seguinte, or casal agree embraced and sorrindo. Hippolytus is glad to see that someone has written his phrase numa parede and everything seems to be more beautiful, while Amélie and Nino bike ride in the city.
Além do the happy ending of both, that traced uma magic dimension to all of these things, we also raise some people who have been shaved by the passage of Amélie for their lives.
Assim, in our final moments, we can see Bretodeau almoçando com a filha e o NET. Já o pai de Amélie, inspired by the adventures of the gnome that sumiu, achieves sair of apathy and decides to travel.
Analysis: main themes and characteristics of the film
A "lufada de ar fresco" is a hope for viewers, or a French film that takes on a cultured work of tackling heavy subjects in a light and convenient way.
O longa-metragem marks the beauty of their images, their dialogues and also the depth of two people and the unique ways we think and live.
Narration: enter reality and fantasy
Or Fabulous Destiny by Amélie Poulain He is an oniscient narrator who, from the first seconds of the film, will tell us the story of the protagonist. In her presence I confere um I took fantastic ao tangle That is not a daily seal of a young man, his apprentices and descobertas.
At times invasive, revealing details of the past two characters, this narrator has a rather subjective point of view. It treats, nothing true, of a produto da imagination of the protagonist. Sonhadora and extremely creative, Amélie always has a vision of the magic of the world.
At times, a fantasy invades her reality: the TV news about her, the pictures are shared and talked, etc. Assim, it becomes evident that we are witnessing years of events from the perspective of young people. Também é por isso that we accept às suas secret emoções: For example, when her heart lights up or when she feels that she has lost her face little to see or loved.
Complexity of human relations
As a childhood characterized by solidity and negligence, Amélie learns to be distracted by herself. However, once she got used to living together with other children, she she did not learn to form social ties. For this reason, after years of working not the same local and living not the same building, it does not maintain a proximity relationship.
Not so, or isolation of Amélie also echoes our other personagens: both I am not part of her and I am not Deux Moulins, all are melancholic and seem out of balance. A descoberta de um "tesouro", which belongs to a garotinho, alerts the protagonist for a passage of time and a short life of life.
She was courageous to face her own reality, she decides to help the people that rodeiam, com atos secrets of bondade. No prosecution, Amélie also ends up finding support and understanding of others: first to friend of Dufayel, depois to paixão of Nino.
Or Amélie and Nino's romance is love at first sight. As we are destined one year or another, seus inner worlds Combined and completed. Despite their singularities, or even thanks to them, both found their soul-geme not final.
As cores do film e seu meaning
O film photography work (and all of its aesthetic decisions, such as a color palette) are two aspects that have been most frequently commented on by critics and moviegoers. With a predominance of certain tons, such as green, yellow and blue, as cores assumem um symbolic role na narrative.
Elas surgem associated with what Amélie is feeling num a certain time. For example, or blue appears when she is sad and or vermelho reminds for her loving and romantic personality by nature.
Curiosities about the film
Launched in 2001, or long since it has been planned directing hair since 1974. His inspiration seems to come from several locations: from autobiographical information that is reflected to us by two people, I attached references to other works. This is the case of the film Tempo No Decourse (1976), where he was inspired for a dinner of memories.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet também não inventou or local de trabalho da garçonete: or famous Deux MoulinThere is the same office located in Montmartre, Paris.
An original soundtrack, created by Yann Tiersen, also fez a huge success and continues to have a special place not hearted by two spectators. Confira ou reign na playlist below:
Technical data sheet and letter
| Qualification: | Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amélie Poulain (original) |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Directed by: | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Launch: | April 2001 |
| Duration: | 122 minutes |
| Classification: | Over 14 years old |
| Gender: | Comedy Romance |
| Country of origin: | França |
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