Narrative Theory: final scene

  Today I am going to speak about the key narrative theorists to the ending of 'Amelie Poulain'.

    In this film the beginning and the ending is organised in the same way. Propp's character roles stay the same especial that of Amelie.

The heroine 'Amelie Poulain' who is played by Audrey Tatou is really well interpreted by her. The title of this film describe really well what story we are going to see. It is the story about her life, all the wellness and help she wants to give, and how she is going to find herself.

In this movie she is herself the dispatcher because she gave herself a goal to find this man.

The helper is this old man who gave her advice about her life and what she needs to be focused on.

And like I said the figure paternal -her father- not really help her during all her life, it is she again who is helping him, like she is doing during all the film.

 The new equilibrium in 'Amelie poulain' is more happy then how the film started. Like we see in this final scene, we see then she finds the man she searched for during all the film. Some of other characters she helped are happy. The poet is happy because for once he see his sentence on the wall so that means someone remembering his sentence, the other man has a moment with his grandson , so that means he speaks again with his daughter, the old man has finally finish his drawing and her father has decided to stop complaining and go to travel the world. 

 The action in the final scene just is full of love and happiness. We can see her and her man on a scooter so happy, she is behind him, the way of how it is filmed is really interesting and gives a smile to all the audience. Even the city looks happy.

The saturated colour use in this film give an effect of warm atmosphere. A lot of red and green are used to show the emotion of the heroine. She always wear this kind of colour to show to the audience her warmth, energy, passion and love. That reflects her life and mood. 

 The binary Opposition from Levi-Strauss, is maybe just represented by Amelie and the man. But in this film there isn't really a big opposition. It is just a romantic comedy film who speak about this girl who try to discover her identity and the way of love.