Amelie †Intercultural Film Review Essay

Amelie is a cut movie about a young twenty something girl whos world opened up to her when her mother dies and she is tot furtheryowed to venture out. After a health misdiagnoses at a young child Amelie is stranded in her home away from all multitude and relationships until her mother passes away and she finds herself free. She becomes a waitress and decides to help all the pile around her until one day she herself finds love. This film shows a French cultural pattern where the people are open minded, whimsical, unique, and quirky. The main constituent Amelie, wants to get the most out of her life. She takes the viewer on a elbow room by dint of a series of subplots where she is seek to help people that edge her find happiness and joy. Paris and the people of France are shown in a whimsical and fairytale environment. all told the while, Amelie, is removed from all human get through which makes for an interesting film if one is attempting to view this film through the le ns of the eye of interpersonal communication. All the communicating in the movie is done through the use of metaphors, scheme, plots, tricks, and the like. Its interesting because Amelie doesnt directly communicate with people even though she is non anti-social. She is very social and likes to help people but she does so almost exclusively nonverbally.One exception to this is when Amelie helps a blind man to cross a busy street and, opposition to her normally silent nonverbal reference work, she proceeds to very quickly unwrap everything that she sees and everything that is happening to the blind man in exceptional detail. This is done as an act of kindness for someone who cant see and not as a form of actual or real communication. All real communication in this movie, is done in a bare(a) fashion of cat and mouse. It feels almost like interpersonal communication in this movie is a game that is not to be taken seriously. When Amelie finds a boy that she is romantically interest ed in, she finds herself needing to communicate with him only from a distance. Amelie one time again plays one of her games in order to conceal her identity. Nino, the object of Amelies affection, is a boy who collects old photos from an old photo booth. The use of pictures in this movie is overwhelming and must have some reason layabout it. Its almost as if the shells are communicating through the pictures instead than with words.Even when Amelie was quickly describing the surrounding to the blind man she was helping crosswise the street, it was as if she was creating a picture in his mind so he could connect with her. Perhaps Amelie can onlycommunicate through imaginativeness like metaphors and photographs because she spent her entire childhood alone with only her parents because they opinion she was too ill to be around others. I have combine feelings about this film because I can appreciate a equitable romantic comedy and I understand the feeling the director was trying t o create but Im not a sports fan of the fanciful fairytale romances which I think this movie falls into. I would have preferred a movie with a real underlining footfall and I could do without all the whimsy. Amelie felt like a child in a womans body, not unlike 13 going on 30 and for me the doe eyed cutesy character began to put one across on me and I found myself more annoyed than anything by the end. The telescope is Paris, but not the real Paris but rather a fantasy version of Paris not unlike a moon or the Paris you can see in old movies. The business relationship itself felt very Disney-like in that the mother dies in the beginning which is the vehement to the main character being forced unprepared onto the world, the main character then helps many sub-characters out along the way to finding her veritable love.Very Disney indeed. Im certain that I would not suggest this movie to my friends or my family, but maybe it would have a erupt in a cultural communications clas sroom. I think the only problem I would have with it is that it doesnt portray an actual or real culture, and only portrays a fantasy like culture. The lead character is able to form relationships and make the audience care about her without having to govern much at all, which can have some value when it comes to the direct of nonverbal communication. Also, there might be a value to getting a feel for the French culture from this film, because even though I didnt love the story or the film-making, there was something about the extend in the film. The dialogue did draw me into the French culture which was interesting because I dont speak any French. Even though I struggle to pinpoint the feeling or atmosphere of the film, I do think that something was captured even if it was just the Disney version of Paris and French Culture.