Gold Into Tin

Tonight we'll be watching Amelie for the second time. I really loved Amelie when I saw it at the Cable Car in Providence last winter. It was really a cool movie.

There's one scene that I adore because there's a delightful element of incongruouity--Nino Quincampoix is working at "Palace Video, King of Porno," and having a very tender discussion about Amelie, while surrounded by dildos that--I think--he was busy pricing. Nowhere are the dildos mentioned during the scene, of course, because in his world, this sea of substitute phalluses is just part of his scenery.

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