Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

I don't usually write reflections after seeing a movie, but oh goodness :') I am so in love with this film, I can't concentrate on anything else!!!! 

(I really should have waited till after exams before seeing this... But I couldn't!)

3 days ago, I had a sudden inspiration to see a french film in its original language. Just cus I was feeling very excited about the France Immersion programme I signed up for this coming June. So, I did (with English subtitles, ofcourse.)

Firstly, I'm quite happy that I actually understood some of the things without reading the subtitles HAHA YAYY!!! (You have NO IDEA how terrible I am at listening. I somehow always manage to mishear everything, I don't know how.)

But the main thing is, I'm just so intrigued by the entire nature and filming of this romance movie. It's not tragic, or the overcome-all-odds kind of love story like the Titanic or The Notebook. Yet the reality of an introvert falling in love with a quirky, painfully common man was as touching in all its honesty :')

I'll try not to spoil the movie (just in case anyone's intending to see this film too), (which I really encourage hehe); but what's special about this film is this: it was charged with so much hope that love can really be uncomplicated and pure. Not just love in its romantic sense, but also in its simplest form - a kind stranger to a blind man; a harmless prank pulled to restore hope of love in a broken-hearted lady.

Ma petite Amélie, vous n'avez pas des os en verre. Vous pouvez vous cogner à la vie. Si vous laissez passer cette chance, alors avec le temps, c'est votre cœur qui va devenir aussi sec et cassant que mon squelette.

("Little Amelie, your bones aren't made of glass. You can take life's knocks. If you let this chance go by, eventually your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton.")

Maybe I'm just really sensitive, but this was one of the lines that made me just pause and allow my heart to break for a few seconds :')

The two lovers, Amelie and Nino, truly realize the little thrills in life that I was never able to appreciate/ notice. Cheap thrills like collecting rejected portraits from photobooth bins at the metro, or doing something kind anonymously just to observe happiness in others - these little things don't take a lot of our time, but the thrill in doing them do not come spontaneously to most of us. Wouldn't it be nice if we could easily appreciate the subtleties around us, as they do? :)

C'est l'angoisse du temps qui passe qui nous fait tant parler du temps qu'il fait.

("It is the fear of time going by, that make one speak so much about today's weather.")

There is so much about this film that makes me really think about all the little things I should be appreciating more.

Of course, the biggest impact this film has on me is still the love story (duh)! When the film ended, all I could do was (really!) sit back in my chair and stare into blank space, taking awhile to register the entire thing I just watched. I was nothing short of overwhelmed and in love with the idea of love and humanity (as corny as it sounds, but really I felt so... satisfied with life haha.)

:') Ahhhhh I REALLY REALLYYYYY can't wait to go to france this June!!! And after finals, I am so going to scout for more french romance films hehe. I don't know why torturing my heart with sentiments brings me so much joy, or the fact that I have to coming to school the next day with swollen eyes haha! I probably got it from my mum, cus she literally does this to herself on a daily basis.

Anyway! I've been writing this during my supposed study-time, so I should really get back to work now. (Guilty as always.)

Please go and watch this film if you haven't already done so!! :') I promise you won't regret it!

(Viewers' discretion is adviced though, kids please seek parental guidance because this is M18.)