"You see, she's actually God. No matter that she's barely three years old and has spent the majority of her life in a near-vegetative state. She has the power to bend reality and the world around her. Take, for instance, the moment when she turns three and finally snaps out of her "plant-like" silence: An earthquake shakes the entire Japanese house that she and her family live in, and suddenly Amélie (voiced by Loïse Charpentier) begins to cry."
"But nothing really helps the situation with Amélie until her grandmother Claude (Cathy Cerdà) comes to visit, bearing something truly amazing: white chocolate. As soon as she gives a weeping Amélie the chocolate, Amélie's eyes suddenly open wide and start to sparkle. This is it! The answer to life is white chocolate. Immediately, Amélie is calm, even pleasant. And she also, soon, can speak."
Amélie is a nearly nonverbal three-year-old who appears to possess reality-bending, godlike capacities trapped within an immobile body. Her abrupt emotional awakening coincides with an earthquake and unleashes prolonged, disruptive outbreaks that exhaust her parents. Household help offers little relief until grandmother Claude brings white chocolate, which instantly calms Amélie, makes her eyes sparkle, and enables speech. The sequence of sudden, miraculous shifts mixes wonder and humor while exposing family strain, caretaking challenges, and the astonishment of encountering consciousness and life through a child who perceives the world in startling, transformative ways.
Read at Inverse
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