AMELIE [2001]

She'll Change Your Life

On September 3rd 1973, at 6:28pm and 32 seconds, a bluebottle fly capable of 14,670 wing beats a minute landed on Rue St Vincent, Montmartre. 

At the same moment, on a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically made two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth. 

Meanwhile, in a 5th-floor flat, 28 Avenue Trudaine, Paris 9, returning from his best friend's funeral, Eugène Colère erased his name from his address book. 

 At the same moment, a sperm with one X chromosome, belonging to Raphaël Poulain, made a dash for an egg in his wife Amandine. 

Nine months later, Amélie Poulain was born.

[Narrator] 

With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, 

shy people would have the last laugh.

[Narrator] 

It's better to help people than garden gnomes.

[Amelie]

She doesn't relate to other people. She was always a lonely child.

[Amelie] 

Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.

[Hipolito, the Writer]

We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.

[Hipolito, the Writer] 

Failed writer, failed life... I love the word 'fail.' Failure is human destiny.   

Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, a long rehearsal for a show that will never play.

[Hipolito, the Writer]

You mean she would rather imagine herself relating to an absent person 

than build relationships with those around her?

[Raymon Dufayel, the Glass Man] 

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