Quelque chose francais que je l'aime.....

So i FINALLY had the chance to watch Amelie (yes THAT Amelie from 10 years ago). We've had the DVD for years and i never saw it, but considering i need as much help as possible with my listening comprehension i finally took it out and played it.

the movie was cute in some ways, and very french in others. I have to say that after a while you can sort of get tired of this "formula' if you call it that, just as one would with the hollywood formula. i suppose I am conditioned to the fast paced of hollywood movies, so that the fact they have a million characters leading different lives and enjoying a million simipler things in life does not help.

It took so excruciatingly long for Amelie to finally be with the one she loves, at first, i was on the edge of my chair. 'just tell him! just get it over with already' i thought, or " yeah like you're going to fall in love with a complete stranger like that". but then at the end of the movie, i actually feel like i can see my own reflection in it or the way she deals with love. I too fall too easily for people I hardly know and cling on that for the longest time, without even knowing too many things about them. In my head they are all wonderful and lovely and nothing can go wrong, and that they secretly too are wishing a girl of their dreams is somewhere waiting for her. It's fun to crush on people from a distance, because you never have to get close enough to get hurt. And they are never egocentric and never a jerk. But when i finally have any opportunity to talk to them or REALLY find out how they are, i turn into stone.



So this is how it ends.

could it be possible that i am lucky enough to find such a person?

"Elle est amoureuse."
"Depuis quand?"
"Depuis toujours."

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Then i have this urget to really find a good online french radio station to help me with my learning, and landed this one. It has about half and half hottest english/french indie music. just the one i need. :)