A film about the adventures of an introverted woman, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Amelie presents the perception of life around a person isolated from social interactions. Amelie’s father sheltered her due to his misinterpretation of what he assumed to be a heart defect in Amelie but really was not a defect at all. Because of her isolation from most of reality, Amelie is the epitome loneliness. She relies on her imagination to create dreams and fantasies growing up. Now as an adult, Amelie takes on the role of a quiet hero who meddles into the lives of others making each person happier than before. Soon forgetting about her own happiness, Amelie realizes her own loneliness and corrects it by pursuing love. Throughout the film, there are many uses of warm colors like red, orange, yellow, etc. in a repeated effort to add meaning to the storyline. Jeunet utilizes these warm colors to emphasize the sense of adventure and emotions of characters while Amelie plays their hero.
Foreshadowing Amelie’s new-born sense of adventure, Jeunet sets up the bathroom scene in warm colors where Amelie’s life would take a complete turn. After hearing about the death of the beloved Princess Diana, the camera zooms in close to capture her face in astonishment. Her perfume stopper was then focused on as it dropped to the floor and carefully rolled to hit a tile on the bathroom wall. Low key warm lighting was used to introduce the memorabilia box of a child from decades ago. Jeunet uses the warm light to give the box a slight glow, which indicates the start of Amelie’s adventure. Further indicating this, Jeunet has the camera spiral close-up to Amelie in contemplation of doing good deeds while in the warm colors of the bathroom. Fast-forwarding to Amelie helping Bretodeau find his memorabilia box, warm colors are still present leading up to that moment. The pink, red, and yellow flowers along with the red décor of a café, Bretodeau approaches the phone booth. These colors represent the...