Amelie+Theme+Analysis+in+Editing+(Ry

Through the use of various film techniques, the director of Amelie has showed the audience the theme of how people's fate can be affected just by the actions of one person. For this particular analysis, I will be discussing how editing techniques are used to convey this theme.
 * The Main Theme Portrayed in Amelie**

**The Mixed and Matched Letter Scene** The editor used a unique sound editing technique in scene that a lady is reading a letter that was pieced together by Amelie. As the lady read’s the letter, she reads it as if it were a real letter, but in the background, the audience can hear a non-diegetic combination of ambience sounds that range from peaceful bird chirping to thundering rain. The editor arranges the sounds in such a way that it is jarring when the audience hears it. The non-diegetic element tells the reader how this pieced together letter, was like god piecing together an atmosphere/environment. The lady reading the letter believes that it came from her former husband during the War Era and it makes her happy. This scene supports the idea/the theme that people’s fate are being affect by the “Hand of God” whom Amelie plays as.

The editor used a piano piece called //Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi// by Yann Tiersen. This piece was also featured in the animated short "The Piano" and because I watched the animated short prior to this film, the music piece already had a set story in my head. This piece alternates between slow and fast paces, and represents a person’s thoughts going from peaceful and quiet reflective thinking, to thinking about very emotional and charged memories. I believe that the editor inserted the piece there to create a sense of turmoil that was going on in Amelie's head. This relates to how Amelie was not very certain of what to do with her life because she was helping other people more than she was helping herself. She was playing the hand of god but not letting the hand of god help her.
 * Music: Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi by Yann Tiersen**

**Male Character In Bed Seeing Talking Faces** Special effects in the scene that the Amelie’s crush is about to sleep and talks to four moving heads in a photo-booth picture helped achieve the unique experience. The editor likely used various video filters that include cropping the shots of the faces and resizing them to fit onto a main background shot, and then used a monochrome/sepia filter on the shots of the faces. Doing this created the effect that the picture was alive and gave the scene a dream like quality because something like that is not likely to happen in our world. The significance of the dream like quality of the scene is that dreams are very complicated times in our sleep. There are theories that a dream is the medium where god gives you a message. Since Amelie gave her crush the photo, and her crush dreamt of the photo, that ties into the theme that Amelie acts as a hand of god and is influencing the fate of this character.

**Orgasms** I disagree with what Karson said about how sex must be fast and rapid in order to gain an orgasm. The editor made each shot short and successive (cutting on action) to specifically show how an orgasm is a climactic event that only happens for a brief moment, and not to show that sex must be rapid. I believe there are cases that people have slow and steady sexual intercourse and still achieve a climax. For us to know that Amelie be able to notice so many “fireworks” going off at once in such a small period of time shows us how she is like the eyes of god, watching over everything that happens every instant. This ties into how Amelie was like the hand of god because her actions and practices are not like that of a normal person.