The Treatment: A Life-saving Sacrifice

A bike shop sits on a steep street with a brand new blue bike in the window. Inside a boy empties his wallet buying the new blue bike and sits on the leather seat while gripping the handles.

At the top of the hill a women closes her car door after giving her toddler son a kiss on the forehead. She closes the car door and crosses the street to a friend. (Exterior) The two women talk and laugh. (Interior) The son laughs and sits on the emergency break. The car rolls backwards.

The boy on the new blue bike looks both ways before riding across the street. Almost across, a car whizzes buy almost hitting him and his new blue bike. He looks up the street.

A women runs down the street yelling after her son and car as they barrel down the hill.

The boy turns his bike down the steep hill and rides after the run-away car. Gaining on the car the boy is cut off at an intersection by a truck that also turns down the street. The bike and the boy soar through the air  landing in the bed of the truck; riding up two wooden planks like a ramp.

The blue bike lands next to the run-away car with a panicking boy atop, as he questions his own sanity at this point in time. He pulls at the door handle.

Looking up the boy sees the end of the street, a cul-de-sac, less than half a mile away.

Now in tears out of fear for his and the infants life, the boy breaks the lock on the door. The door flies open, he jumps in the passenger seat, the door hits his bike knocking it out of sight. Then the car hits a bump and bounces.

Forgetting everything, the boy looks back out of the rear window, only to see a bent tire and the remnants of a new blue bike frame. He begins to cry, oblivious to the danger ahead.

The baby screams, the boy hears the baby for the first time and instantly realizes the severity of the situation again, seeing the dead end rapidly approaching. The boy pulls on the emergency break, stopping the car just in time.

A week later the boy speaks in front of the city as he is honored for his valor. The crowd applauds while he answers questions for the press. The mayor gives a speech commemorating the boy. Everyone leaves.

The boy walks home, his fake smile fades. An image of the new blue bike in the window appears. Looking at the boy again, one tear runs down his cheek has he mutters under his breathe, "I wish I had my new blue bike, I really hate walking".

Amelie textual analysis

       In Amelie, Jean-Pierre commonly uses close ups, while the characters look over shoulder. He does this because he wants to make the audience think in depth about other smaller aspects of the Film. Here as Amelie looks off behind the camera it makes you curious as to what she is thinking about due to the fact that the previous slide of videos had concluded her thought on the sexual underground of France. This makes it obvious that she is moving onto a new thought due to the distant look in her eyes and happy look on her face. Because she is happy it could be possible that in relation to the previous topic, she is thinking about her own sex life. Although due to her random and scattered personality it is also very possible that this assumption is wrong, which builds up anticipation towards the next scene where these questions will be answered.
                In the film, Jean-Pierre often uses a common color theme of dark reds, greens, and yellows. In addition to these base colors, Pierre often attempts to give a contrast to the color scheme of the shot in order to add emotions like excitement to the scene, if not simply as a means of visual pleasure for the audience; so they don't bore from the same colors repeatedly. Also, being that this is, a romantic comedy, in tense or desperate scenes, when Pierre often used the dark red, the bright blue gave a light-hearted and more upbeat element to the scene.

           In Amelie, Jean-Pierre incorporated the idea of magical realism. This is the blending of reality and fantasy, for example Amelie looks at clouds for fun as a child and takes pictures of certain ones. Now, in reality people often relate cloud shapes to animals; of course though they vividly look like animals. Jean-Pierre in the film incorporates this with imagination by giving great detail to the clouds to show that Amelie believes in the image so much that it becomes clear and vivid in her eyes, while it would actually be impossible for such anomalies to occur.
         In Amelie the most commonly used colors are red, yellow, and green. Each color is almost always incorporated into scenes but the balance of these colors give different emotions. For example, in shots that are completely enveloped in red, like when Amelie is reading in her bed; in shots like this one, the warming red color, gives the audience the impression that the character is happy and content with their current situation. So although Amelie is shown throughout the movie, feeling the pain of others, which she constantly attempts to fix even though she can't solve her own problems with love, there are still scenes where this red gives some relief of worried tension to the audience by making them feel the momentary satisfaction that Amelie feels.