I AM Amelie

I finally saw Amelie today.

I borrowed the movie from a friend because I KNEW I wanted to see it... and because I loved the soundtrack when it came out. Why did I get the soundtrack without watching the movie? I'll never know. (It IS an amazing soundtrack though!)
Basically, this movie was almost perfect to me. Very rarely do I say such a thing. I like a lot of movies. I feel moved by a lot of films. A lot of movies leave me with a lot of memories... but Amelie was different. I AM Amelie.

Her cute sense of style. Her independence. Her timidity. Her friendships. Her relationship with her family. Her adorable apartment. More importantly... her imagination. The way that her imagination actually takes her away from reality. The way that she can live her life entirely through an imagination. These are all things that I understand about Amelie.

There's one scene at the end of the film, where she's hoping that a boy is thinking about her and fantasizing what he would be doing at that exact moment with her... and then she's brought back to reality. That he isn't there and that he's not thinking about her. It broke my heart because it is so REAL to me. There have been so many moments where I've felt absolutely crazy, feeling as if a boy was really there with me... and then came back to reality that he in fact was NEVER there. And that I'm all alone.

I'm going to watch it again before I give the movie back. I might watch it twice.
The vivid colors... the attention to detail... the sympathetic characters...
and the boy was so cute! I loved his big nose.
oh how I loved this movie.