Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Today I watched my favorite movie again, Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain. I don’t think I can watch it to many times. I love it!

The movie starts with lots of crazy details of what happens in the same moment Amèlie is made. You get to know what everyone likes and don’t like. And it always makes me laugh.
Amèlie don’t have any friends as a child, so she lives in a fantasy world. She thinks that LP’s is made the same way as crêpes and that the woman next door is sleeping so she can stay awake around the clock for the rest of her life (she’s in a coma).
Amèlie’s fish tries to kill it self so they let it go and she gets a camera instead. I like the way you can really see a bunny in the sky that she photograph.


Amèlie lives in her own little world even as an adult. She can sit on the roof and look down on the town, having fun with stupid questions like; how many couples gets an orgasm right now. She makes you realize that the smaller things in life is more important. She likes to put her hand in a bag of seed, through stones over the water in the canal or just crack the crust on her crème brûlée. And this is what we should do. Enjoy the smaller moments. Watch the sun go down on a nice evening, stand in the window and look at the dancing snowflakes, jump in the pools of water when it rains or just the feeling of the warm sun against our skin. Amèlie makes me want to do this. I watch the movie every time I feel low. It makes me smile. It makes me feel that it’s not that wrong to be lonely sometimes, there is always something you can do.


Amélie finds a little box in her bathroom. She find the man who hid it there as a boy. He gets so happy over seeing it again. This is what makes her want to help mankind. Off course it’s not easy to find the man she is looking for. And as she is about to give up, things fall into place. And that’s life. I always look at how impossible things are and just give up. But why give up. Sometimes all you need is a helping hand. I wish more people out there would be like Amèlie. I sure would like an friend like her. I would like to be like her. I agree with what the teller says in the movie; when you help someone you get this inner harmony. Everything feels perfect. And when everything feels perfect you see the world in a different way. I know cause I have myself felt this way. The sun shines in a different way, the birds sing. And I just walk around with a big smile. Just like Amèlie.

One of the most crazy things she does is to steal her fathers elf from the house lot. One of her friends takes the elf all over the world and takes photos of him. She sends this photos to Amèlie’s father, who in the end starts to travel. It’s just insane haha. The look of her father’s face every time he gets a new photo is just so damn good. I wonder what would happen if someone did this in the real life. Maybe someone should try this out. Let me know how it goes. :)


There is also a love story. Amèlie meets Nino, who is a man very much like Amèlie. When she as a child wanted a brother, he wanted a sister. She doesn’t want to meet reality and so she don’t talk to him. But they send notes to each other in the metro. And in the end they get each other. Happy ending.
I would like to have a boyfriend just like Nino, He really makes me smile. Is there someone like him out there? I once meet someone that reminds me of him. A former friend of mine. I really miss him. The crazy ideas he could have. How I laughed at it, so silly. But silly is good. It makes us relax and be happy.

“A woman without love is like a flower without sun, it withers.”
A line from the movie that is so true. Sometimes we just wait for things to happen and suddenly the moment just pass us by. To get what we really want we have to go for it without doubt. But for that you got to be strong. Maybe one day I am strong enough to go after what I really what. But not yet…

In the end, Amèlie’s neighbor send her a tape saying; “Little Amèlie, your bones are not as fragile as glass. You can take the bumps of life. And if you let this opportunity slip out of your hands, then with time your heart will be as fragile as my skeleton. So… Follow him, for God’s sake.”
How many times have I let the opportunities slip out of my hand. And are my heart not like the old man’s skeleton. Here I am, 26 years old, and already I regret many things in my life. I don’t live every day like the last. I try to enjoy the smaller things in life. But it’s a hard world we live in.






“Without you would the days motion of sense just be flakes from the past."