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The key to understanding the film seems to lie in Depardieu’s character’s response to a stranger on the subway who asks why he’s being followed: “I need company so I can talk. People have stopped communicating.” The loneliness of urban high-rises can push people who have lost the gift of communication to commit acts even more absurd than, say, covering up a crime or a “five-minute widow” moving in with the first person she meets.

When there’s no chance to take a deep breath and truly feel alive, death becomes such a commonplace occurrence that even mentioning it over a drunken dinner won’t make your heart beat even a little faster. But at the end, one small yet very important detail slips through—we’re talking only about the deaths of others. And when you yourself are led to the final door, your reaction won’t be to accept the key from your escort, but simply to scream, “I want to live!”