Wanda and Amelie

Watched two movies in the last two days - A Fish Called Wanda and Amelie. Loved both of them but in very different ways! Could not stop laughing with Wanda and could not stop smiling with Amelie! Very different feelings were evoked by both but definitely loved the Amelie version of emotions more. Wanda is more a slapstick kind of comedy with half naked dancing around the room, oafs who quote Nietzsche thinking that makes them intellectual and Curtis showing her ample cleavage and alluring men. All in all - Wanda had all the makes of a good Brit comedy, while Amelie had a totally different feel to it. The film had an odd sunbathed feel to it, the whole movie thus gave you the feel of a beautiful summer setting. Sitting here in the middle of upstate New York - with snow blizzards everyday - I loved the feeling of sun drenched days. Then there was the basic concept of the movie based totally on how our imagination works. It was beautiful the way her mind worked - that world of absolute magic where, LP s are made like pancakes, ghosts come to take their pics in public booths because they are afraid to be forgotten, where her dream guy works in a porn video store, where on calling up she is asked if she is shaved or not coz furry pie is not liked these days. It was beautiful how reality and imagination was blended. We all have fertile imagination like these but in an overt attempt to hang on to reality we lose this fecund imagination to more mundane things and lose that spark in life which Amelie has held on to.