The movie Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (literal translation: The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain) revolves around Amélie Poulain(Audrey Tautou), a 22-year-old introvert. Amélie’s childhood frustrations propelled her to devise a defense mechanism that she keeps until adulthood: she created her own insular world. Misdiagnosed with a non-existing heart condition, her upbringing is starved of human interaction—and caused her to grow up as a shy and reserved woman who lives a quiet, albeit ordinary life. Although she has a few acquaintances, she prefers to keep all of them at an arm’s distance. Amélie frequently shuns other people’s company, and cultivated an unusually active imagination born out of a childhood of loneliness. Inadvertently, she began to crawl out of her shell when a pivotal moment—involving a perfume cap, a tin box, and the death of Princess Diana—happened in her life, and she accidentally resolves her own issues as she resolved to fix […]

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