Amelie

I was not to crazy about watching a movie in another language and reading subtitles the entire time, but the movie was suprisingly not what I expected it to be. Amelie shows this movie in a way that many movies are not directed, which made it almost intreging. To be able to fully understand the reason the film is directed so differently is to freshen up on your cinematic points of veiw. I could be wrong, but it seemed like this movie had both objective and subjective points of veiw in it, because sometimes you seemed to be in the action and other times it felt like you were on the sidelines watching her help people. I think the directors will do this so the audience does not get bored, because it changes views of the movie. I felt sorry for Amelie when she was a child, she did not have the best life, because she did not have friends and was put in the background of everyone else. Since she did have such a great heart dispite her chilldhood she grew up and she still made other lives better in certain little ways. This especially changed her when she finds a box containing little sentimental items and then Princess Dianna had passed away in a car accident, which had made her realize that life can change at the flip of a coin. The director uses geographic factors when Amelie goes and takes her fathers gnome, and takes it to all different places, because his passion was to travel. I believe the director does this so it feels as if we are with her instead of just hearing about it, it makes us more invested in the movie. While she goes and helps all the people close to her, the director using sharpness to focus, movement, foreground framing, size and closeness of the object, and arrangement of people and objects to help attract out attention to certain items throughout the film. The movie was different, but the way they brought it to life and also putting a romantic twist on the plot made it a enjoyful film to watch. It seemed to me that the director used more artificial light, which took away some of the naturalness. Also since this movie did not go through major ups and downs of emotions it seemed that the direction and intensity of lighting did not change a whole bunnch during the film.