P: I wonder what made Amelie so convinced that she was going to be together with that photomat guy, that made her determined and unbreakable...
A: Naivety and childlike sense of wonder. Mostly found in the protagonist of Spielberg's films.
P: That sounds absurd, don't you think so? Almost fairy tale-ish. Damn! I thought I could get some practical tips...
A: Oh well, love itself is never a practical thing, isn't it?
P: But relationship is.
—A twittering session with Pulung Uci, my lecturer and counselor for my thesis. The last sentence was a nice dose of reality, and makes me wonder about AMELIE (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001) too.
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