87), but I know what the vote reflects: Immediate satisfaction with a film that is all goodness and cheer-sassy, bright and whimsical, filmed with dazzling virtuosity, and set in Paris, the city we love when it sizzles and when it drizzles. I am not sure "Amelie" is better than " Fargo" (No.
AMELIE MOVIE MOVIE
It went on to win the audience awards at the Edinburgh, Toronto and Chicago film festivals, and I note on the Internet Movie Database that it is currently voted the 54th best film of all time, and hasn't even opened in America yet. The movie played in the commercial theaters of the back streets, where audiences vibrated with pleasure. "Not serious," sniffed the Very Serious authorities who decide these matters. I first began hearing about "Amelie" last May at the Cannes Film Festival, where there was a scandale when "Amelie" was not chosen for the Official Selection. So, she will amuse herself (and us) by devising the most extraordinary stratagems for bringing about their happiness. And in tracking down the man who was that boy, and returning his box, Amelie finds her life's work: She will make people happy. Yes, the shock of the news causes Amelie to drop a bottle cap, which jars loose a stone in the wall of her flat, which leads her to discover a rusty old box in which a long-ago boy hoarded his treasures. Nair, you were mistaken.Amelie grows up lonely and alone, a waitress in a corner bistro, until one day the death of Princess Diana changes everything.
Why? Because this movie makes no effort in building character, assuming that the actors' charisma and the fame of their names would automatically make us invested in their fates. In "Amelia", they sadly are not, and we are relegated to seeing the brilliant moments of Amelia's life pass with emotionless detachment. Events in and of themselves are hollow and meaningless unless the MOTIVATIONS behind them are explained. Movies are supposed to be snapshots, truer to the SPIRIT of a character and the MESSAGE of a story than the events within. This is supposed to be a movie, and whereas I have no quarrel with facts, they are not the most important aspects. Plenty of biographies have been written about Ms. It seems almost as though the director Mira Nair tried a little too hard in the wrong direction.
Poignant moments come and go with no warning or conclusion, rendering them meaningless and out of context. Things just HAPPEN with little or not buildup or motivation in between. In fact, that's the problem of the entire film. Amelia falls in love, falls out of love, and falls in love all over again, all without any sort of event or prompt to motivate it.
There's no buildup, no exposition, no sort of character interaction to motivate any kind of bond or love forming between individuals. However, it is hollow and nowhere is this more apparent than in the depiction of Earhart's relationships. "Amelia" is a highlights reel of Amelia Earhart's life, faithfully chronicling all the significant events of the famed aviatrix's career. Perhaps it really did try, and I can tell that it was MEANT to be an awards movie. Excellent actors, a fascinating subject, in fact the whole thing reeked of Oscar-Worthy. It's an honest statement and I am prepared to explain why.
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