Fun With French Cinema
May. 26th, 2003 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jakebe
In Amelie, the main character is trying to track down the whereabouts of a fellow who left a box of childhood trinkets in her apartment a few decades ago. Her search leads her to an elderly couple elsewhere in Paris.
The wife was one of those women who thought her husband was lazy, no-good, dimwitted, and always wrong. She went out of her way in saying so. She told Amelie that it wouldn't do any good asking him, he'd go on about something completely unrelated until he forgot the question you asked, and then you'd have to ask it again. So, the husband waited until his wife was getting tea, and gave Amelie the exact information she was looking for. She came back, still complaining, and he was silent again
Sometimes, the point of things is not to prove that you're right, but to do what needs to be done.
The wife was one of those women who thought her husband was lazy, no-good, dimwitted, and always wrong. She went out of her way in saying so. She told Amelie that it wouldn't do any good asking him, he'd go on about something completely unrelated until he forgot the question you asked, and then you'd have to ask it again. So, the husband waited until his wife was getting tea, and gave Amelie the exact information she was looking for. She came back, still complaining, and he was silent again
Sometimes, the point of things is not to prove that you're right, but to do what needs to be done.
