I went to the movie Amelie during the ONfilm Festival. It was a foreign film, all spoken in French with English subtitles. Amelie had been introverted her whole life, ever since she was a child and witnessed her mother's death. As an adult, she lives by herself and has no friends except for the people who work at the same cafe as she. She decides she wants to be a person who does good deeds to make other people happy so she plays all these games with people to make their lives more fulfilling without them knowing. She does this for everyone but herself.
This movie contains elements of ideological criticism because it is Amelie's belief that life is too short not to be happy and she tries to create a "Mother Theresa-esque" character out of herself. Her goal in life is to make other people genuinely happy without their knowledge that she set up these plans for them.
Even though Amelie does not put her own happiness first because she is painfully shy, she longs for a man to love her more than anything. She brings two unhappy people together by telling them the other person is in love with the other. Her father is obsessed with his garden gnome but want to travel. Amelie photoshops pictures of the gnome in places all around the world like with the Sphinx in Egypt. She always puts other people before her own happiness but then eventually finds love through her antics and everyone ends in happiness due to Amelie's involvement in their lives.
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