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Amelie Amovie Review with a Philosophical slant

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  Amelie is a foreign film that's story line forms itself around a girl's (named Amelie
  
  played by Audrey Tautou) interactions and fantasies with the people in her life. The scene is
  
  set in a small town in Paris called Montemartre, sometime around the mid nineteen nineties.
  
  The plot swings around her actions of doing random and anonymous acts of kindness with an
  
  avid imagination and a love for the simple things in life. This theme is prevalent in most of the
  
  movie, to enjoy the little things that make you happy, a very epicurean point of view. She, and
  
  the other characters around her, seem to become harmlessly obsessed with their different
  
  ideals or lives through their own perceptions of what life is.
  
       This entire movie is a very clear and precise example of our own subjectivity, about how
  
  nothing can ever be truly objective, how everything changes with our expectations and
  
  situational ethics at the time, etc. Good questions to ask yourself while I'm telling about this
  
  story is "Who would you rather be?" and "Which person do I resemble most in the film?" The
  
  beauty of the film lies in the innocence and simplicity in life, and although the ugliness isn't a
  
  clear and stated theme, it does demonstrate a few characters who are not searching for the
  
  loveliness in life, but are quite happy whining and pining away in their own miseries.
  
       The painter, who lives across from Amelie, has painted the same Renoir over and over for
  
  a good part of his life, searching for the true emotion painted in the character's faces within...