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Amelie is a french story about a girl who falls in love while trying to do good things for the people close to her. It is also the perfect movie to analyze semiotically. One of the best examples is the way the director portrays sounds in the movie. Every movement has a sound to go along with it. The sounds are natural signs because they directly relate to what they represent. Sometimes movies lack sound, and concentrate on dialect but not in Amelie. From the very beginning to the end the director seems to have concentrated on the sounds an object makes. There are however some arbitrary signs, some sounds have no intrinsic relation to their meaning. An example is during the beginning credits of the film young Amelie cups her hands over her ears and moves them back and forth from her ears and a sound accompanies this movement. It helps draw attention from the audience to what is going on in the film. As the film introduces each character it zooms on his/her face and then goes on to tell his/her likes and dislikes. Each like or dislike i