Amelie film review essays

Amelie film review essays My first response when learning that I had to see the film Amelie was Oh no... however, after viewing the film I found that the film had a very large moral significance. I believe that one of the themes central to this film is the age old Carpe Diem or seize the day. Amelie first comes to this realization after dutifully completing philanthropic acts by returning Dominiques box of his only childhood memories or writing to the woman whose husband left her after the war. The moral significance comes into play in the question whether or not she should do these deeds even though I believe she was doing them for the right reasons. Amelies life was a lonely life. She experienced many trials and tribulations during her life and she rarely had any support through her childhood. She practically raised herself into believing that she received pleasure from all the small things in life such as skipping stones on that canal. I believe that the director wanted to show that one must incorporate the larger things in life to be happy such as love. I believe that a very moving scene was the final video tape that the glass man sent her to watch. This is what finally convinces Amelie to risk it all to be with the man she loves. The glass man is very wise and experienced in his years and I believe that he represented the moral figure in this play. He was the one who constantly tried to analyze the works of Renoir, to try to capture the essences of the people portrayed in them. As the character in that work of Renoir is a mystery to him, Amelie is also an enigma to him. In the final scenes of the movie, he finally can give her the moral advice to seize the day. ...