Amelie

I was very shocked at the beginning of the movie, in America we aren't used to movies so openly talking about sex in the way they did in Amelie. We also aren't used to movies talking about orgasms as much as this movie did. That had to be the one thing that really stuck out to me as being very different with this movie. It was also different to watch a movie were you have to read subtitles the whole time; it was only the second movie I had ever watched that was this way. I think it is kind of neat in a way because you have to pay closer attention to the movie but at the same time I don' t care for it because you can't concentrate on the picture (or movie) as much because you are too busy trying to read the subtitles. I thought that the movie had good humor in it which is something that I think would be harder for a director to do in a movie that uses subtitles rather than the audience just being able to hear the jokes/humor.

I think that the movie is about a girl who has been lonely her entire life because she has lacked the love and compassion that she needed from her dad. Once she is older she decides to use her experiences of loneliness to help others around her. She first does small things to help people but then she discovers someone who is as lonely as she once felt (the man from the movie store) and she makes it her mission to help him. Amelie doesn't want other people to feel lonely because she knows how horrible that can feel. I also think that she might be helping these people because it makes her feel like she has a purpose and it probably made her not feel as lonely herself.

I think that we could learn from Amelie to take our own experiences and use them to help better other peoples lives. I also think that we could learn that you don't always need to be recognized or known about when we are helping people. We need to help people as an act of kindness not as a way to get recognition for ourselves. Amelie shows us this because she never let the man from the movie store know who she was that was helping him.