film review
Amélie
A shy Parisian takes up a covert meliorism, secretly engineering the happiness of strangers so she may keep deferring her own. Twee? Certainly. But the whimsy is armour, and the film, to its credit, quietly knows it.
what it left me with
It is far easier to repair strangers than to be brave in one’s own life. Do the frightening personal thing as well.
this is one entry from a wandering list of films, books, shows and albums, kept by someone trying to live a slightly more deliberate life.
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