Amelie+Analysis

1. The background music at the beginning of the film before Amelie's birth was more upbeat and lighthearted, it almost felt like a rush to get the Amelie's birth. It went really well with the narration to emphasise on Amelie's birth. After Amelie's baby head is pulled out of her mother, the background music changed to a more steady piano music, it felt more depressed than the previous upbeat music. This is used to show that Amelie, starting from her birth, did not the a very good childhood. This also created a mood of the film starting from the beginning.

2. During the scene where Amelie returns the box to Bretodeau and they met in the bar, Bretodeau doesn't know Amelie is the person that found his box so he starts talking to her and reveals the secret that he never met his daughter and granddaughter. While he talks about childhood, the same piano music that was played during the beginning of the film while the narrator talked about Amelie's childhood started playing again. This gives the audience a sense of familiarity because both scenes are related about a unhappy childhood.

3. Another scene in the film where music plays a big role is at the near the end of the film, when Amelie is making her plum cake, the music in the background is very soft and sad. This reveals the emotion of Amelie at that state which is very sad and also the mood of that scene of the film.