Film Analysis: Amelie

*Note: for this film, I watched up to the first 20-30 minutes of the movie, and then proceeded to obtain the rest of the film's plot details from online sources, due to time constraints.

This film, Amelie, portrays the life of an imaginative and quirky waitress who is miraculously inspired to bring others happiness after an unlikely discovery, and manages to find true love in the process.

The film's use of color is heavily centered on warm colors such as red and yellow, perhaps to highlight the film's optimistic and warm overall message, as well as to identify the true bubbly and fun-loving character and nature of the film's upbeat protagonist, Amelie. The lighting throughout the movie accompanies the color choices during the movie's overall run time for the same aforementioned examples, to evoke a feeling of hope and warmth through the use of warm tones and jaundice-colored lighting effects.

The narrative of Amelie is incredibly detailed and immersed in the systematic land of cause and effect, for example, in the beginning of the film, It is narrated that Amelie is excited towards the prospect of actual physical contact with her father during his routine physical checkups of her, as he is antisocial and seldom intimately interacts with her daughter, and as a result, Amelie's heartbeat is abnormal and skips a beat due to excitement during this checkup period. Because of this, Amelie's father insists that she is physically unfit for public school, and she is home-schooled by her neurotic mother instead.