Amelie

Follow the Blue Arrows: Looking Closely at One Part of Amélie’s Spectrum The color blue is used symbolically in the visual design of Amélie to represent happiness. Watching Amélie to gather info on the visual design of the film lends itself to the realization that to write a paper on the overall visual design of the film would take dozens of viewings and a book worth of analysis. With that in …

…is blue. Amélie is not the type of movie for the connections to be coincidental; it’s not the director’s style. The color blue is used to punctuate those events where characters are happy, or making decisions that are moving them towards happiness. Blue also appears when the main characters are looking for love, which theoretically, leads to happiness. Amélie uses the color blue repeatedly in its visual design to represent happiness.