Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Two explanations

One of the many great scenes  from Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
"...Nino is late. Amelie can only see two explanations.
  1  - he didn't get the photo.

  2  - before he could assemble it, a gang of bank robbers took him hostage. The cops gave chase. They got away... but he caused a crash. When he came to, he'd lost his memory. An ex-con picked him up, mistook him for a fugitive, and shipped him to Istanbul. There he met some Afghan raiders who took him to steal some Russian warheads. But their truck hit a mine in Tajikistan. He survived, took to the hills, and became a Mujaheddin. [Increasingly angry] Amelie refuses to get upset for a guy who'll eat borscht all his life in a hat like a tea cozy... "

the photo Amelie is talking about

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