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You know, I always found the movie Amelie vaguely ... irritating (not in a "I just don't like him" kind of way but in a "these shoes don't fit quite right" kind of way) because for some reason some part of my brain insisted on treating it as a romantic comedy to which the "lonely, bad childhood" setup was about as important as "quirky, likes box turtles, plans wedding" in some horrible Hollywood thing starring Jennifer Aniston. And it's not, because it's not really a romantic comedy so much as a movie that's about loneliness, even if in the end Our Heroine makes it to the other side.

This makes me think again about how Americans claim to be all about the individualism, but - egregious stereotype here - American movies seem to program you to believe that if Character A wacky setup B unexpected circumstance C then surely true love and/or exciting firefight with Character D. And maybe I just don't watch bad French movies, but they don't seem to assume that all their characters are interchangeable. Or am I missing something because of the culture barrier?

Apologies if I have posted this exact same thought before. I don't seem to have a tag for "pretentiously pretends to have ever taken film theory."