Everyone is an island, waiting for strangers to visit.

an unknown French 18th-line town, a shabby old apartment, without the bustling and noisy metropolis? Miscellaneous, only the dilapidated and deserted small towns. The director of the film "Asphalte" filmed the normal life of people in a sparsely populated small town.

All these people in the film have no family members, or their family members are not around. They live alone, so loneliness has become the normal state of their lives.

everyone lives like an island, waiting for strangers to visit.

1.

One of the earliest characters who broke into the camera was the comedian of the film. His behavior and manner injected lightness and humor into the whole film.

This 4-year-old uncle is ugly and chubby. He looks cute and his EQ is really touching.

The elevator in the residential area is broken, regardless of the property. An enthusiastic owner took the initiative to contact the elevator company to install it. The installation fee needs to be shared equally, and everyone agrees, except him. The reason is that he lives on the second floor and can walk upstairs without an elevator.

finally, everyone respects his opinion on the condition that he doesn't pay the money and can't use the elevator in the future. He agreed.

who knows, the next day, he broke his word.

On this day, he bought an automatic treadmill, fell asleep after running, and when he woke up, he found that he had run for 1 kilometers and his leg was disabled.

In a wheelchair, he couldn't take the stairs, so he secretly took the elevator. In order to avoid being discovered, he spent a day writing down the floor and time when the elevator stopped in detail with a small notebook. Then take the elevator out secretly every night when no one is using it.

This unsociable uncle, God always likes to play tricks on him, and his luck is not ordinary.

I can run my leg after running, and I get stuck buying snacks at the vending machine in the hospital. No matter how he punched and kicked, when the stuck snacks were indifferent, he finally collapsed and cried. This scene, it is so funny, it is so trigger * * *. Most people, like him, have been teased by God, making themselves hard and embarrassed, and their lives are still not improving.

On his way back, he met a female nurse who was smoking.

They are chatting, and he lied that he is a photographer for National Geographic magazine. The next day, he took a polaroid that was about to be scrapped. At that time, almost every family was using a digital camera.

every night after that, he made an excuse to chat with the female nurse. Later, the female nurse said that she wanted to see his photographs. He turned on the TV, took a random shot at the landscape film of the geographical channel, and posted photos of celebrities in it, pretending to be his own work.

The female nurse is smoking a cigarette, full of yearning for his work, and sighing for her monotonous work.

Uncle was unconsciously attracted by this lonely and sad female nurse, and proposed to take photos of her. The female nurse was flattered and they agreed to meet the next night.

when he wore a suit and tie and took the elevator to the appointment, tragedy struck again-the elevator broke down.

finally, he managed to get out of the elevator and limped to the hospital. It was already dawn. Fortunately, the female nurse is still here this time, and he didn't break his word. Although embarrassed, I took a photo of the female nurse and confessed everything to her in the process of taking pictures.

Their smiles have a kind of understanding and tolerance at the beginning of love. At this point, the two lonely hearts slowly moved closer.

Second,

A lonely teenager, Charlie, welcomes her new neighbor, Hupel, as an out-of-date actress.

he is very enthusiastic about this new neighbor. The elevator broke down and he helped to repair it; The door was locked and he helped to open it; Hupel was drunk, and he was comforted. Hupel was bored. He accompanied him to the movies and listened to his own stories about his past glory.

Their feelings have nothing to do with New Year's Eve love, but two lonely people's comfort to each other.

Charlie told Hupel that he lived with his mother, but his mother never showed up. He got up alone in the morning and slept alone at night, leaving him alone at home.

Hupel used to be a smash hit actress, but now no one knows about it. Her lover passed away, and she lives alone in this shabby town, with her face full of sadness.

She heard that the movie she starred in was remake, and she wanted to compete for the 15-year-old heroine and regain the past scenery, but she didn't have the courage to speak in the end. Persuaded by Charlie, she auditioned for a 9-year-old woman and asked the teenager to make a video.

at first, she was very insecure and couldn't speak her lines well. Encouraged by Charlie, it became more and more natural. In front of the camera, she spoke of a mother's love for her son from beginning to end. She was so emotional that even Charlie was moved by it. His hand holding the camera did not pretend to tremble, as if that was what his mother was going to say to him.

At this moment, Hupel regained his old self-confidence, and Charlie began to understand his mother.

3.

John, an American astronaut, went off track and landed on the roof of this small French town when he returned to Earth from space.

In a panic, he knocked on a door. The owner of the house was Hamida, an old lady who lived alone.

John didn't know French, so he went into the old lady's house with gestures and made a call to NASA headquarters, where he was asked to stay with the old man temporarily and pick him up in a few days. Ironically, in space, NASA can accurately know his every movement. Once he fell into the world, the accuracy of technology failed, so no one knew where he landed within an hour of his disappearance.

He explained to Hamida with trepidation, and Hamida readily agreed.

Hamida is the warmest character in this movie. Her kind smile, like a beam of light, makes everyone feel warm and beautiful.

She was unprepared for John, and warmly entertained him, making him coffee, cooking him food, letting him live in his son's room, and giving him clothes to wear.

John was infected by her friendliness and enthusiasm and let his guard down.

The most interesting part is that two people are sitting on the sofa watching soap operas. The old lady told him about the love relationship of the characters in the play while watching it. Who knows, John has already seen this play. He gave the old lady a spoiler and told her the ending of everyone in the play. The old lady left home sadly when she heard that the ending was so tragic and unexpected.

John lived in her house for free. I'm sorry. Seeing a leak in the kitchen, he offered to help repair the water pipe.

Hamida treats John like a son, making him his best couscous.

In the evening, they ate delicious couscous and chatted while eating.

John told the old lady what it was like to be in space. The old lady talked about her son, who made a mistake in prison, but she always loved him. Remembering her son's lovely appearance when he was a child, she sang a lullaby in her hometown of Algeria, and she cried at the end. To comfort Hamida, John sang an American ballad.

He has been rereading the last song "Everything will be all right", which seems to be a blessing to the old lady.

Soon, people from NASA came to pick him up, and he left this French town with the couscous made by Hamida.

The lost astronaut, the old lady who lives alone, the out-of-date actress, the lonely boy, the fake photographer, the lonely female nurse ...

Three short stories and six lonely souls, they meet briefly, comfort each other, and then return to their respective life tracks.

just like a water pipe that still leaks after several repairs, short-term contact will not fundamentally solve the problem. But because of each other's comfort, we have the courage to solve the problem, just like the mysterious voice that everyone guesses, but the noise made by the wind touching the garbage can.

In such a noisy age, we should be glad that there are directors like Samuel Benchetrit who care about the loneliness and loneliness of little people like Jia Zhangke.

Loneliness is a strange disease that everyone will get, regardless of age or sex. Once it is acquired, it cannot be cured.

even around the dearest family, this feeling will still be with you. So everyone lives like an island, and a stranger's visit may bring a little light to the island.

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