Journeys are sometimes more than just wandering through space. It is also a process of retrieving memories and discovering oneself. Through the movement of space, people's psychological state seems to gradually reverse the time. Empty roads, desolate deserts, lonely travelers walk in this lonely environment, the sand shimmers with the dazzling light of gold, the worn-out and scrapped cars are embedded in the rubble, just like the bare and hard bones of the desert, The vulture parked on the cliff is like the director's calm observation, describing the haggard and lonely protagonist, Travis, who walked stubbornly and aimlessly in the wilderness, like an exiled wanderer, walking, Walking without stopping has become the body's only response to the outside world. From Travis' eyes, we can see the daze and helplessness that "Paris, Texas" wants to express.
This is a sad story about utopia. In the movie, we realize that sadness is no longer an ethereal and slightly isolated feeling, but has been integrated into the whole body of the protagonist. The non-stop walking is to express a kind of sadness with the body, so that this sentiment flows endlessly around, and the subtle emotional flow reunites into a long river of sadness. When we are in the streets full of worldly atmosphere and noisy human voices, it is often just to remember sadness, after all, sadness is so precious in this unstable and fast-paced state of existence. But Travis is different, he walks to forget, to find the place called "Paris of Texas", the original origin of no pain. But the distance between Paris and Texas mirrors the distance between his dream and the gloomy reality. The two are just too far away. The beautiful vision of love has turned into crazy possession, horrific domestic violence, and forced betrayal of life. At the end, Travis, who had bid farewell to his wife by his children, chose to continue to drift away from the borders of civilization, letting the night devour the endless road of grief—even himself.
In a broad sense, "Paris Texas" is not only a film about love, but also the director's deep concern and ultimate thinking on modern people's hearts and emotions. In terms of style, it can be said that it is in the same line with the main narrative tone of black and white solemnity in "Wings of Desire" and "A So Far Away". Yasujiro Ozu's film language is used by Wenders in a relaxed manner: the slow camera shift, the fate of the characters is similar to religion Emotional attention, minimalist lines and background music are the hallmarks of Wenders' road movies. The wandering and constant migration of modern people presents a state of near desolation under Wenders' lens; the whizzing cars drive on the ghostly sprawling highway, they become the emotional isolation between people The culprit; loneliness, loss and return are Wenders' labels. Trapped in the intertwining of the two cultures of the United States and Europe, Wenders, as always, used familiar images to express the unreasonable abstraction: "The meaning of life is shown in the fragmentation of life and the end of life; in the absurdity far from reality. The power to revive love and life in the Do the vicissitudes of history and fate. "Landscape in the Fog" and "Zygomatic Birds Wandering" are like dusty corridors spreading "retro and condensed poetic rhythm". If Angelopoulos used road images to continue the tradition since Homer’s epics, and used film to release the soul chants accumulated in the broken walls, then Wenders used road images to outline a vast and silent In the desert on earth, use the lens to peek at the loneliness and alienation of the world. The highway has become a carrier, carrying the protagonist's joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and gradually stretches forward. At the same time, it also asks everyone a question: Where is the destination of the soul? And this unsolved mystery can only be found in loneliness...
The profound connotation, the fresh and elegant high-profile, and the smooth and beautiful language of the camera lens have been combined into this work that represents Wenders' highest achievement. There is a kind of movie that will make your heart feel what pain is, and "Paris, Texas" is such a movie - let you recall the cruel life with the bleak and cold guitar sound in a kind of tearing pain.
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