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"I'll Wait For The Next One" is a French short comedy drama film. It was made in 2002. A woman walks to the station with a lonely expression. When she gets on the train, a man also gets on it to introduce himself and says that he is looking for love to passengers in a loud voice. The woman has a puzzled look at first, but she comes to be interested in what he says and sympathize with his view of love. It is a story with a surprise ending. The title implies that the women waits for her destiny and I think she is so bored in her daily life so that she wants to believe the one and fate. However, I suppose the man makes fun of the women who are looking for partners seriously and I don't think it is a funny joke. I sympathized with her in the film. Furthermore, I have empathic embarrassment to watch this film. I believe people who care what other people think much would feel this embarrassment. I think the film is worth watching because it gives the audience the lesson that there some things are too good to be true.

I will wait for the next one is a short film and the leading character is a woman who has no dialogue. When she arrives at the station and goes down on the escalator, her gaze is drawn to a couple. She looks sad and bored by her day-to-day life. On the train, a man suddenly introduces himself and speaks out that he is looking for a lady who can share true love with him and then asks passengers to get off at the next station if interested. She gets curious.... While I think this film is flawless in its technical aspects, after I watched it, I felt really frustrated about the narrative. Contrary to the man, the woman doesn't say anything and only has facial expressions, but I can image her romantic background for some reason such as marital status in the past. I am curious about what happens next for the woman and the man and the situation on the train. I think this film is worth watching.

I'll Wait for the Next One sets itself up as a cute little comedy skit, and it delivers on that premise but also surprises you with an incredibly moving finale. Four minute comedies are not supposed to be as moving as this film is, it's funny, charming, and heartbreaking all at the same time, showing you your emotions in a combination that they are not generally found. I can't recommend this movie enough. By the end of the diminutive film you feel like you have known the characters for years, especially the lead man and the woman looking for love, probably because they so perfectly represent.

The look on the man's face and the woman's face at the end of the film are brief moments of sheer performing brilliance rarely seen, especially in a short film, which itself is rarely seen. Seek this one out, you will laugh and you will cry, and most of all you will be moved.

Oh, this broke my heart! The filmmaker showed such skill as he told the story of the woman on the train with no words whatsoever. The actress was great. She just really brought to life her loneliness, from her buck teeth to her terrible scarf. She was just trying so hard. This was super-great. Except it was a bit devastating in the end...

In this film, two people are the main characters. The story takes place in a train with the man's speech and the woman's reaction. The man looks suspicious at first, and other people laugh at his speech. In contrast, the woman takes it seriously. At this point, her facial expression shows her change of mind. In this film, she does not speak. Instead of that, her face is often focused on expressing how she thinks about the man's words. The angle of each character is interesting. While the man is speaking, the camera shoot not only the man but also other people as it shows that the man is speaking to everyone in the train. On the other hand, the woman is on screen only with her eyes straight at the man to show how serious she listens to him.

The whole scenes of this film is take place at the train. One man gathers the attention by other passengers because he give a speech with loud voice to search the female who can share his romantic ideas. Most of people are laghed by his romantic idea but one lonely woman is moved by his word. This is very good way to make the short film I think. In other words, the director of this film is good to use time. I can not believe that this short film takes only about 4 minutes. It was really impressed story to me. In addition, there are some words that I can not understand in the film but from the act of characters, I can understand the story easily. Many people would enjoy this short film. If you have a spare time, you should watch this short film and do not miss the last scene of the film.

Quite literally an emotional ride, "I'll Wait for the Next One" offers the promise of a fateful encounter only to be challenged abruptly by a surprise ending. The surprise works because our feelings are channeled through the eyes of the woman, whom in becoming the dupe of the male perpetrator forces viewers along to share in her struggle. The film thus raises many questions regarding the nature of the conflict it depicts: why is it not surprising that the man is the perpetrator and the woman is the dupe? Why are we drawn to believe the man's story, and what does his final action reveal about the nature of men as societal beings? Is the ending a fault of the woman or of the man? If the woman is at fault, do women need to just be more careful in an overtly oppressive society? Or if the man is at fault, does he need to be more considerate of the extent to which his actions inflict damage upon society? The depiction is that both the woman and the man are at the extreme ends of their respective depths of capacity for emotional sentiment, and it is a very crude depiction that does little to progress away from the repression inherent to patriarchal societies. However, the responsibility to answer the questions posed by the film lies in the viewer, and as a result so too does the responsibility to make any changes in the real world away from what we see on screen.

The short film starts with a depiction of a lonely woman in France. She never talks; however, we can see her emotional rollercoaster and the changes that she has throughout the movie. At first, she gives a look to lovers jealously with no smile on her face. After her listening to a man's speech on the train, her face is brightened. The excitement she has even encourages her to jump off the train with her expectation that good things wait in the next station. From this movie, I feel the unlimited possibilities that lead characters have in a film. Again, the lead character, the single woman speaks no word. But from her facial expressions we can observe her emotional up and down. Also, by giving her longer film time, we can recognize the woman as the main character although the other characters speak more than her. In addition, I think the short movie is stable probably because of the way its beginning and ending. The same music is used in the first scene and toward the credit roll; the woman's mental situation is also the same, disappointed and lonely.

A lonely woman who greatly longs for true love meets a stranger at the metro in Paris. He asks single women in the metro who has the same way of thinking of love for getting off at the next station. Then…what becomes of her love, getting off or not?

Even though the film is about 4 minutes long, this leaves us emotion sympathized with her. Interestingly, the single lady is a main character, not the man who tries to attract the single women in the train. However, she mentions none of the words, which means her feelings are expressed visually. In particular, at the beginning of the film, she bears watching a couple on the escalator. This shows us that she seeks for love. The technique is highly respected.

The ending of this film is beyond expectation and makes audience feel to follow the story more.

A lonely woman goes on about her life until one day, the ride on her usual train takes an unexpected turn, changing her life in the mere span of a few minutes.

It's a well-crafted short, from start to finish. The actress does a magnificient job showing the sad, lonely side of the character, which makes the audience take a liking on her earlier in the short. There's humour in it too, and the cadence of the dialogue makes the audience follow the slow but steady flow of the plot.

The simplicity and familiarity of the setting (coming home from work, getting on the train to share your personal space with strangers for as long as the ride lasts) adds to showing how easily events in the short could happen in real life. How humans can be cruel without meaning to, and how they can also be very naive when hope is an option.

The naiveness of the woman, her hope to finally stop feeling lonely, is what gives this short that special touch.

When I first saw the scene in which the man announces honestly of his current search for love on the train I thought two things, that this was going to be a cute story or that scene was "too good to be true".

This short film tells the story of a middle-aged woman dressed up going on the subway. On the subway, a man stands up and confesses that he has not found love in many years and tells the truth about his life. Despite the other passengers laughing at him he continues and invites anyone who, like him, is looking for love to hop off at the next station. The woman is charmed and touched, hops off at the next station.

The film does a good job of making the audience feel like this character his "real". We can can easily feel like this woman actually has a past life before the movie we saw took place. She was dressed up but with no date, she looks like she is ready for a night out but had nothing but a miserable look on her face. What kind of job does she have? Has she ever felt love before? Did she have friends? This movie allowed us to think about these kinds of things during the film and further discussions afterwards. I also enjoyed the dark moral of the film. All in all, I very much enjoyed the film and would recommend this to any other movie lovers out there.

At night in France, a man walks in a wagon of the metro, filled with different people. He starts speaking out loud, giving a speech to everyone inside the car. What surprises everyone, including the audience, is the message of his words, which seems to hook completely one of the women inside the metro, who stares at him with sparkling eyes and a big innocent and excited smile on her face. The short films sets a situation that can seem familiar at the beginning: night in the city, people on the metro, people who laugh or the aggressive reaction of some of the men who are also in the same metro car as they guy who is talking. Moreover, this idea of being witnessing a familiar or common situation is suddenly dropped by the course of the speech and how this affects one of the women standing on the metro,, this ending with an even more surprising plot twist. We don't know anything else about this characters, we have no background, we are limited to know just what we see on screen and every conclusion we can get from the visual storytelling. Yet, I found myself deeply attached to that hopeful woman. Concerned about what she just experienced, about her life, about what is going to happen with her. We keep that feeling with us after watching a less than 4 minutes film which can makes us think we are just watching a familiar situation we are all used to see on the metro, when the truth is that by the end of the film, we find ourselves surprised by the unexpected turns of events, trapped by a woman, a story, and not only by a simple situation.