Amelie (2001)
- Information at Internet
Movie Database
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Looking Closer, review by Jeffrey Overstreet, "searching for truth, beauty
and meaning in the movies."
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"Amelie and
a Life of Playfulness," Ben St. John, TheFilmForum: Christian
Conversation about the Movies.
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Hollywood Jesus
visual review.
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Values & Visions Video Guide: Amelie, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat,
Spirituality & Health - Spiritual Practices for Human Being.
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Review, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Health -
Spiritual Practices for Human Being.
- Themes
- Discipleship
- The characters in Amelie seem
to match up, almost one to one, with the Beatitudes. The heroine herself
embodies "Blessed are the meek" - she has strength, but is too shy to
change people's lives directly. So she devises "strategems" to bless the
poor in spirit (the artist, who annually recreates the identical Renoir
print), to bless those who mourn (her concierge, who acidly mourns her
philandering husband), to bless those who hunger and thirst for
righteousness (the old man estranged from his daughter and grandson) and
to bless the pure in spirit (the slow-witted grocer's assistant.) She also
bestows a "woe" on the grocer, "who is laughing now, for he shall mourn
and weep." She also plays peacemaker to a couple of her cafe's
navel-gazing occupants, allowing them to look outside themselves. This is
a fantastic film, and viewed with a Christian filter, applicable to outstandin' preachifyin'. (Tim Ihssen)
- Generosity/Hospitality
- Grace
- Amelie spends her time doing good things for those around
her. The good things she does are never rewards, merely a gift of
grace that are brought into someone's life.
(Darrel Manson, Artesia, CA)
- Judgment
- Although Amelie is busy doing good, she responds to the
cruel green grocer with retribution for the insensitive way he
treats his helper. She gets into his apartment
and sets up several pranks to make his life as
miserable as the way he acts. (Darrel Manson, Artesia,
CA)
- Seeing/Not Seeing, Healing
- Amelie walks a blind man across the street, but as
she goes she begins telling him all the things around, in detail,
in effect giving him sight.
(Darrel Manson, Artesia, CA)
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