Functional Order: Fi/Ne/Si/Te
Dominate Function: Fi
Amélie functions mainly through her reactions to the world around her. She’s a dreamer, and “thinks with her feelings,” so to speak. She enjoys taking pictures, watching films, and walking about in the world, but primarily because of what these activities make her feel. When she discovers the box behind the tile in her bathroom, Amélie is happy because of what the objects inside must have meant to someone else. She becomes infatuated with Nino throughout the film, but avoids acting on these feelings and doesn’t express them directly. She lives in a rich inner world of her own emotions and solitude.
Auxiliary Function: Ne
Amélie loves thinking up possibilities and potential realities. She enjoys being on her own, but imagines what is or may be happening at the same time. Her immediate reaction to finding the box in her apartment is to be happy that she’s found someone else’s time capsule, but her second reaction is to track down the owner and find it. The daunting task of finding someone who hasn’t lived in the building since the 50s requires some unorthodox detective work, and Amélie seems to enjoy the puzzle. She’s always thinking of potential ideas and possibilities for the world around her.
Tertiary Function: Si
Within the rich world of her feelings, dreams, and imagined realities, Amélie can be very nostalgic. She finds a box of old trinkets and imagines someone else’s memories, a whole life attached to it. She becomes infatuated with Nino despite barely knowing him, probably falling in love with the idea of him more than the reality, at first. Amélie seems to have a fantastic memory as well, recalling minute details about people and/or events.
Inferior Function: Te
Throughout the film, Amélie plans and executes subtle schemes to improve people’s lives – coordinating meetings, playing matchmaker, leading Nino on a cat-and-mouse game around Paris, and even convincing her father to travel, all without letting on that she has anything to do with it. This is her least developed function, meaning it’s not her strongest suit, and her plans are often unorthodox and follow very little logic. She is not very organized, and most of her plans revolve around subtle idea- or clue-dropping rather than times and details.
Note: This argument has been taken from Mbti in Fiction
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