five minutes of fame : part I

okay so I just watched Amélie and read over "Photo booths"... and I'm starting to formulate some ideas for my RA II and my RAE (hopefully). I wanted to focus on the relationship between truth and fiction and how that in photo booths we choose our own truths-- preparing our poses, and discarding the outcome if we do not like it. We are both the photographer and the subject... and can be whatever we want. It is a way to make our lives, our existence permanent.

The clip that I will be working on is in chpt 12 (1 h 26 m) where Amélie meets the "mystery man" seen in Nino's album 12 times. The parallel editing, dramatic cinematography and fanciful additions wonderful capture the spirit of the movie... and how the photo booth functions within the film. Photo booths are used to preserve people's memories and also they serve as a mechanism to bring people together (people try to make meaning of their own life/circumstances through understanding others'). We try to make meaning out of everything... including this mystery man. also the fact that amélie is a loner (as is nino) and that this somehow compels them more to seek out understanding through these photos.

These are just the few mains points that I want to make and will make them tighter for my presentation. Also, I can't find the clip on youtube so hopefully these stills will be helpful.