Island photography tour

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

These people in the film have no family, or their families are not around. They live alone, so loneliness has become the norm in their lives.

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

One,

One of the earliest characters who broke into the camera was the comedian of this film. His behavior injected a relaxed sense of humor into the whole movie.

This 40-year-old uncle is ugly, chubby and cute, and his emotional intelligence is really touching.

The elevator in the community is broken, regardless of the property. An enthusiastic owner took the initiative to contact the elevator company for installation. The installation fee needs to be shared equally by everyone, 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, provided 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 woke up to find that he ran 100 km and his leg was disabled.

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

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

Running will cripple your legs, and you will be trapped in the vending machine in the hospital to buy snacks. No matter how he punched and kicked, he finally collapsed and cried when the stuck snack was indifferent. This scene is so funny and resonant. Most people, like him, have been teased by God, making their lives very difficult and embarrassing, and their lives are still not improving.

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

When they chatted, he lied that he was 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 digital cameras.

Every night after that, he made excuses to chat with the female nurse. Later, the female nurse said that she wanted to see his photo. He turned on the TV, took a landscape film of the geographical channel casually, put photos of celebrities in it and pretended to be his own work.

The female nurse smoked a cigarette, full of yearning for his work, and somewhat lamented her monotonous work.

Uncle was unconsciously attracted by this lonely and sad female nurse and offered to take pictures 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's already dawn. Fortunately, the female nurse was 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 during the photo taking.

There is a kind of understanding and tolerance at the beginning of love in their smiles. At this point, the two lonely hearts slowly moved closer.

Second,

Charlie, a lonely teenager, welcomes her new neighbor, Hupel, as an outdated 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 open it; Hooper was drunk and he was comforted. Hooper is boring. Go to the movies with him and listen to him tell his glorious stories in the past.

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

Charlie told Hooper that he lived with his mother, but her mother never showed up. He gets up alone in the morning and sleeps alone at night. He is always alone at home.

Hooper used to be a smash hit actress, but now no one knows. Her lover died, and she lived alone in this shabby town with a sad face.

She heard that the movie she starred in had been remake, and wanted to compete for the heroine of 15 years old and regain her former scenery, but she didn't have the courage to speak in the end. Persuaded by Charlie, she auditioned for a 90-year-old woman and asked the teenager to make a video.

At first, she was very insecure and couldn't speak her lines well. With Charlie's encouragement, it became more and more natural. Before the camera, she talked about a mother's love for her son from beginning to end. She was so excited that even Charlie was moved. His hand holding the camera didn't pretend to tremble, as if that was what his mother was going to say to him.

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

Third,

John is an American astronaut. On his way back to Earth from space, he got off track and landed on the roof of this French town.

In his panic, he knocked on the door. The owner of the house is Hameda, an old lady who lives alone.

John doesn't know French. He even pointed to the old woman's house and got through to NASA's headquarters. The people at the headquarters asked him to stay in the old man's house temporarily and pick him up in a few days. Ironically, in space, NASA can know his every move accurately. Once he fell into this world, the accuracy of technology failed, so no one knew where he landed within an hour of his disappearance.

He gingerly explained to Hameda, and Hameda readily agreed.

Hameda 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 for him, 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 they sit on the sofa and watch 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 the 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 lives in her house for free. Sorry, he saw a leak in the kitchen and offered to help repair the water pipe.

Hameda treated John like a son and made him the best couscous.

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

John told the old lady what it was like to be in space. The old lady talked about her son. He made a mistake in prison, but she always loved him. Remembering her son's lovely appearance as a child, she sang a lullaby in her hometown Algeria, and finally she cried. To comfort Hameda, John sang an American folk song.

He kept rereading the last song "Everything will be OK" as if it were a blessing to the old lady.

Soon, NASA came to pick him up, and he left the French town with Hameda's Gus Gus.

Missing astronaut, old lady living alone, outdated actress, lonely boy, fake photographer, lonely female nurse. ...

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

Just like a water pipe 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 sound that everyone guesses, just the noise made by the wind hitting the trash can.

In such an era of noisy life, we should be grateful to have such a director who cares about the loneliness and loneliness of such a small person as Jia.

Loneliness is a strange disease that everyone will get, regardless of age or sex. Once caught, there is no cure.

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

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