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Amelie, the only one! The most romantic and best-selling French movie ever!

Amelie is a romance film directed by Jean-Pierre Genet and starring Audrey Tautou, Matthew Cassovitz, Jameel Dobbs and Dominique Pinault. The film was released in France on April 25, 2001. The film tells the story of Emily, a waitress in a cafe, who finds a lost owner of an iron box and begins a career as an angel who punishes evil and helps good.

By The Beauty of FilmPublished 3 years ago 11 min read

On September 3, 1973, a sperm containing an X chromosome stood out and was the first to enter the egg. Nine months later, Emily was born. Emily's father is a retired military one who is convinced that Mueller is reticent and usually likes to lead his leather shoes and rarely communicates with his daughter. Emily's mother is an elementary school principal who usually likes to rewind her bag and is somewhat neurotic. Emily at the age of six and other girls like father hug, but the father only in the monthly check. How often does he hug him? So this rare contact made Emily's heart beat faster, and her father mistakenly thought he had a heart condition during a physical checkup, so Emily didn't get to go to school and had her mother at home as his teacher.

Emily had no friends, his father was cold and his mother was nervous, so he was often immersed in his own fantasy world. Emily's only childhood friend was a goldfish that had depression and attempted suicide, and finally her mother released the goldfish because she couldn't stand Emily's screaming. Emily's mother died due to an accident and was already. The introverted father has since become withdrawn, and he made a miniature hearse for his wife to accompany her all day long. Time passes day by day, Emily looks forward to growing up quickly, so as to leave this deadly home. Growing up, Emily went to a cafe in Paris as a waitress, although the people here are a little strange, but Emily is very satisfied with the current life, he will take the subway home every weekend to visit his father, and on Fridays, Emily will take time to go to the movies, he likes to twist his head in the dark to see the emotional expression on the faces of other viewers, he likes to hand. Inserted into a large bag of beans, like to use a spoon to crack the crunchy surface of the baked pudding, like to throw stones at the stream to hit the water, because these are the things he hid in his own world alone can do.

On August 30, 1997, there was something that changed Emily's fate forever. When the news of Princess Diana's death in a car accident was broadcast on TV, the bottle cap fell from Emily's hand and hit a tile. Emily found an iron box from a small hole behind the tile, and inside the box was a treasure treasured by a young boy 40 years ago. Emily lies on her bed and suddenly decides to find the owner of the box and return this memory to him. If the owner of the box is moved by this, he will often help others as a result. If the other party does not respond after receiving the box, then forget it. Emily inquired about the little boy who lived in the house 40 years ago, named Pa Wu Tu. On her way home, Emily saw Nino who stopped to bar something in the photo. Compared with Emily did not have a friend, but then the friends of Nino often tease him. Their homes are five kilometers apart, and he always wanted to have a brother, while he. Just want a sister, Emily through the phone book to find all the people on the fear of no figure's address, one by one after visiting only to find that these people are not at all what he was looking for. After the young boy went home in frustration, the old man downstairs told Emily that it was not fear of no figure, it was fear of figure. Then the old man invited Emily into the house, the old man said he was born with brittle bones, everyone called him the glass man, his home furniture are wrapped on the software.

For 20 years he never left the house, he integrated his life and painting, he painted a picture every year, but there is a painting he always. Is it good? A girl with a glass of water, it was as if she was at the party and as if she wasn't. Emily said thoughtlessly, Maybe he is different. The old man said thoughtfully, perhaps he did not have any friends as a child. The old man gave Emily was afraid of Dotou's address, and in the morning was afraid of Dotou then went to buy chicken on the way, heard the ringing in front of the phone, and Dotou was momentarily curious to answer the phone, but saw the iron box placed in the phone booth. Emily on the sidelines to see Patu opened the iron box, all of a sudden, the former past came to mind, the old man excitedly flowed. That fear of Doto into the bar, drinking a few glasses of wine next to Emily, moving to himself, life is really wonderful, as a child you always feel that time passes slowly, but in the blink of an eye you are 50 years old, childhood memories can only be evoked by the things in the old box. Fear of Doto still talking to himself, he has a daughter, father and daughter rarely talk to each other, perhaps he should go to him while he is still alive. After coming out of the bar, Emily suddenly liked the idea of the moment and the soft light, the fragrant air, and the city singing in a shallow whisper. He took a long breath, life was supposed to be so simple, a feeling of helping the world to save others. He helped the blind man cross the street and described the scenery and people around him, and the old man seemed to regain his sight in an instant. In the evening when he returned home, Emily looked at the lonely figure of the glass man downstairs, he remembered his childhood and fell into a world of imagination while watching TV. He imagined that he was beloved by the world at heart and died at the age of 23, his body buried in the yellow earth, and his only regret was that she had not been able to bring dynamism to her father. It was Emily who went to his father's house overnight, he wanted to do something for him, but instead of entering the house, he took the doll that his father had made for his mother.

In the rush to get home, the subway was closed, so he had to stand in the photo booth for the night. Early the next morning, he ran into Nino again, watching Nino look at her, Emily's heart began to beat faster. Then, Nino began to chase a bald man, Emily also followed. Nino dropped a box while chasing the man. Emily picked up the box and found that it contained a photo album, and it turned out that Nino was picking up others under the photo booth to tear it up. ID photos, and then carefully put back together again, collected in this strange album. Subsequently, Emily took the photo album to find the glass man downstairs, they studied the album together and found that there was a bald man in it frequently. Emily guessed that this man might be a ghost, worried about being forgotten by people, so he kept taking pictures to remind others. Emily has a great interest in this, and judging from the photo album, Nino may also be interested in him. At the weekend, Emily goes home to visit her father, who says suspiciously that someone sends him photos all the time.

In the photos, the dolls made by her father appeared all over the world. It turns out that day Emily took the doll and then gave it to a regular customer of the coffee shop a stewardess, she asked the stewardess to travel around with the doll to take pictures, and then send it to his father, because Emily wanted to make his father's lonely and monotonous life more surprises and hope. When returning home, Emily found in the subway station posted all over the search, this time the normal girls will call to meet each other to exchange albums, and then by the way to see if the other party is worth making friends, but Emily felt that this is too. He prefers not to, because she has fallen into a unrequited love for Nino is in. Emily learns over the phone that Nino works at an adult video store, and today he's working part-time at a playground. Emily finds Nino's motorcycle and leaves a note for Nino to be at the carousel tomorrow at 5pm. The next day, Emily made a public phone call on the side and told Nino to follow the blue arrow to go forward. Nino followed the arrow all the way to find a statue, and according to the statue pointed to find the telescope, through the telescope saw Emily with a photo album waving to him. I put the photo album into his motorcycle bag, and when Nino ran all the way back, Emily had disappeared. Nino got the album. That's when the phone rang and Emily called from the side to tell Nino that he knew the bald man and told Nino to turn to page 51 of the album.

Nino opened the album and directly above it was written, "Do you want to see me? Emily in addition to returning the photo album to it Nino, he also set up a pair of lovers in the store, taught the unscrupulous boss of the vegetable store downstairs, wrote a kind letter to the neighboring widowed woman, so that the woman. Rekindle the love and hope for life. At the same time, it is also interested in this mysterious woman, he began to post a search notice. When Emily found out that Nino was looking for her, she put on Zorro's clothes, and then took pictures in the photo booth. When Emily walked out of the photo booth, she saw a man, who Emily knew was the mystery man in the photo album. Nino finds Emily's torn photo under the photo booth. Nino puts the photo together and sees the girl in Zorro's clothes holding a sign with the location of the meeting with Nino. Quiet cafe, Emily looked at the clock, it was now four past ten, Nino was late.

At this point Emily could only think of two explanations, one is that Nino did not find the photo, the second is that he has not yet spelled out the photo, he was captured by the robbers as a hostage, and then had a car accident, lost his memory, then was taken to Istanbul, met the Afghan guerrillas, was taken to steal the Russian nuclear warhead, but the truck in the middle of the road in a mine, he was in great distress, escaped into the mountains, and finally became a holy warrior, and then there to drink goat soup and wear a foreign hat. Emily thinks. Men like this do not want to stop. Then Emily sees Nino walk into the cafe, and Emily reveals her unconcealed joy. Emily peeked at Nino and pretended to write the menu behind him. He turns around, takes out the photo and asks if the person in the photo is Emily. Emily panicked and denied it, then wrote a note for a colleague to sneak into Nino's pocket, and when you then left, instantly Emily's whole person melted into a puddle of water. The next day, Emily came to the station photo stop, deliberately broke a machine, and Nino from the pocket to find that note. Went to the station photo stop, Nino met the mysterious man in the photo booth, it turns out that the bald man is not a ghost at all, he is just a telephone repairman, Emily is on the sidelines to meet you. However, a turn, Nino is missing it. Nino went to the cafe to inquire about Emily's news, and a Nino followed a colleague out of the cafe. After Emily heard the news that Nino left with his colleague, he went back to his room and he felt that he and Nino would never be able to do it. Emily and the pasta when he finds out that the yeast ran out, he fantasizes about it. Nino goes out in the rain, just in time. Where is the yeast that was bought for her? Noe gently ruffled the beaded curtain with his hand. Emily looked back and found that the curtain was really moving, and then fixed her eyes on the cat who had broken in. Emilie let out a bitter laugh, then secretly shed tears, unable to suppress the sadness.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang, it turned out that Nino from a colleague learned the address of Emily's home, Emily but did not dare to make a sound, pretending not to be at home it. Nino wrote a note stuffed into the doorway, I'll come back next time. Emily watched Nino leave, just when he was distracted, a phone call came in, the glass man downstairs told Emily. You are not a fragile glass man, happiness is all up to you to earn. If you miss your chance, sooner or later that heart of yours will be as dry and brittle as my bones. Don't hesitate anymore, go to him. Emily dawned on her and opened the curtains, Nino had disappeared. Emily rushed out the door, but ran into Nino at the door. Nino was about to speak, Emily interrupted him, he grabbed Nino's collar, dragged him into the door, and then gently kissed the corner of her mouth. Then, the love between the two was sublimated, in the streets of Paris, from then on. The two lonely souls less, more than a pair of reborn partner, angel love beautiful is a romantic to the extreme while also sentimental to the extreme of the film, I have always recommended him to people with a girl's heart to watch.

To say that the overall theme of the film, all filled with a common people's emotional entanglement. In the all-encompassing city, there are disillusioned people in every corner every day, and people love to hate in this city. Wandering, the helpless, both silent tears, or hoarse when, as if adult our voices, no one has ever been able to feel small yet. I rubbed shoulders, red eyes, and may never see each other again. Emily is not an angel, he is just an ordinary and unfortunate child. He imagines his life is not ordinary, and like Nino, he envisions his life to be colorful. There are fantastically unique encounters and ghosts they have never seen before. Yet this is just the whimsical world of two children, those lights. Hey, the world of the land is just an illusion of self-escape after being surrounded by loneliness, life and the world, the same nature is lonely and ordinary. After watching this movie, I suddenly remembered that the life of the disliked Matsuko said, "When I was a child, everyone wanted to shine, but after growing up, I realized that none of my dreams could become reality, both painful and sorry for myself. People with hope in their hearts are often scarred, and this honest indifference is the shield of people's hurt and despair, and Emily's sparkle is in the obvious. Already wounded, but also with the wound can once again ignite hope, and bring these forgotten to the people around.

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