This is what happens, when instead of sorting out last month's accounts, you lurk around blogs of acquaintances. You learn about Rube Goldberg and how it relates to some of your fave movies.
Apparently, Amelie [and A Very Long Engagement, by the same director, which I've yet to watch even though someone very recently highly recommended it] expand on the idea of Rube Goldberg, moving from the physiological to the metaphysical. As noted by Philadelphia City Paper's Sam Wood, fate itself operates as a Rube Goldberg device, "an endless chain of tricky coincidences whose final result is utterly beyond prediction".
What the heck is a Rube Goldberg device, you ask? Check this out. Brings to mind those nifty but useless contraptions in Wallace And Gromit.
Next up on Zann's Useless Trivia: MacGuffin.
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