Some people always say that "Under the Berlin Sky" is the European version of "City of Angels". In fact, Hollywood's "City of Angels" was filmed in 1996. Due to the gathering of big names such as Nicholas Cage and McGonagall, the theme was highlighted as love, and the ending was changed to tragedy - the tender Nicholas gave up his identity as an angel Together with Mag, a woman in the world, Mag was in a car accident. The climax was accompanied by the beautiful episode "Angel", which made the audience sigh, so it made nearly one billion box office and became a successful work on the Hollywood production line in the post-industrial era. Known to the world. In "Under the Berlin Sky", the director mostly used long shots to follow, similar to the clips where the angel walked under the long viaduct; there were also quick editing of individual paragraphs that did not conform to the mainstream logic, creating a fragmented effect; even using a portable How to shoot photography. And there are many unconnected monologues in the whole film: usually from the angel's point of view, reading through the inner activities of mortals, so half of the vocals are murmuring with a little jump; the rest is messy and without dialogue verbose scenario. This is the clear difference between European literary films and Hollywood commercials.
When the film opened, it was later learned that it belonged to an angel's monologue:
when the child was a child, he babbled , and he was
a toddler . When a child is a child, he never realizes his naivety, thinking that all things have a spirit, and all spirits are one. When the child was a child, he had no distracting thoughts, no wealth in his chest, often sitting cross-legged, suddenly running away,
His forehead fluttered wildly,
innocent and not hypocritical.
The picture is in black and white, and there is an angel standing on the top floor of a skyscraper looking down at all beings, wearing a long black coat, and the wings on his back gradually recede. The camera is switched to a child on the road shot from above, looking up and smiling at the angel - only children can see the angel swimming in the world. The film mentions desire for the first time. We all know that children have no desires, but adults have desires, so they can no longer see angels. In the alley, the angel saw the lonely dumb boy being rejected by his peers, but smiled back at the passing angel; the two playing boys who were thrown into the depths of the camera did not see the angel. That is, desire - the pursuit of perfection, the rejection of the alien, and the exile of the angel to the adult world. From the angel's point of view, this passage enters the dwellings, outside the car windows, libraries, and alleys, and peeps into the hearts of all people as an almighty omniscient.
One of the scenes is two angels sitting in the car to communicate what they saw at work that day:
Angel II: sunrise at 7:22, sunset at
4:28, moonrise at 7:04, moonset...
This is the Havel River and the Spree's water level
20 years ago today...
A Soviet fighter jet fell on Spando Lake
50 years ago it was held here -
Angel 1: Olympic Games
Angel 2: 200 years ago Blanca flew over the city in a balloon
Angel One: Many fugitives did the same in the future
. Today...
a man walks on the street
and stares blankly at the
angel. Two: At the 44th post office
, a man who wants to end his life
puts the stamps he collected on his suicide note. The
stamps are different
and then with An American soldier speaks English
This is the first time since his graduation that he is very fluent
A prisoner in Poirot Chengsi prison shouted "I'm going"
before banging his head against the wall At the zoo subway station, the security did not register the station name but suddenly shouted "La Tierra del Fuego" Angel 1: That's right , Angel 2: On a hill, an old man recites "The Odyssey" to a child, and the child is fascinated without blinking . What do you have to say? Angel 1: One person put away his umbrella in the rain and was soaked all over. A primary school student described to the teacher the growth process of ferns on the earth , and the teacher was dumbfounded. A blind man groped for his watch and felt my presence in the form of spirit. Existence is amazing . Every day I can experience the feeling of eternity, which human beings can only imagine . But sometimes I get tired of being only in spirit. I hope I can give up eternal life . Earth, feel every breeze I want to be able to say "now", "right now", "immediately" instead of saying "forever" or "eternity" I want to move a small stool and sit in a lonely place to be greeted by people, even if Just a nod , our participation in human activities is just a pretense
Fighting with others
Pretending to carry a sling
Pretend to catch fish
Pretend to sit at the table
Pretend to eat and drink
Sit in a tent in the desert to eat roast lamb
Drink wine and pretend
I don't dare to expect to have a child or plant a tree or anything
But after a hard day 's work, it's nice to be
able to come home and feed the cat, just like Philip Marrow. It 's
nice
to catch a cold and get a fever . It's okay to
have your fingers black with ink on the newspaper. Can be excited by a good meal Can be excited by loving hugs Can be excited by admiring beauty Can tell a lie Through one's own mouth Can feel the movement of bones as you walk Can guess but not always a prophet can say "ah", "Oh," "Hey," do n't always be "yes" or "amen" Angel 2: Yes You can make an occasional gesture to the devil Catch all the devils that pass by and drive them all down to earth Angel 1: puff Angel 2: Try being rude Indulge a little angel one: at least feel the feeling of taking off your shoes and rubbing your bare feet, like this
Angel 2: Don't say it, let's just let
it go
. We have to maintain our identity.
Because we have to maintain our identity, we can only do this. We can only be bystanders , witnesses
, and guardians. details of life. They envied the experience of mortals' short-sighted fingers being blackened by newspaper ink, and he didn't even expect to raise children and plant trees. These things that were too common to mortals became the luxuries of angels' hearts. As the English translation of the film "Wings of Desire", the text highlights desire. Angels envy the lives of mortals, while mortals strive to do good deeds all their lives and become angels in heaven after death. Desires arise from not getting what one desires. Angels and mortals are in opposite positions, looking at each other from the other side, always longing for what they don't have, and the existence of life is lacking because it can't have certain things at the same time. For example, the asuras in the six realms of Buddhism, although they became Buddhas, were jealous and fought constantly; and even if they reached the realm of heaven through cultivation, they would still worry about gain and loss, and there would still be a day when they would return to the six realms of reincarnation. Desire is constant. The background music is mostly accompanied by cello, or the passionate singing of male and female voices, accompanied by people's inner muttering, as well as the angel's sympathetic voice, and the philosophical thinking of life: when a child is a child, his mind is always full Strange Question: Why am I "I" and not "You"? Why am I "this" and not "that"? Where does time begin? Where is the end of the universe? Is life in the sun just an illusion? Is what I see, hear, and smell just a mirage-like appearance? Does the devil really exist? Are there really bad guys? What the hell am I? What was I before?
I have always been like this?
Is it just now?
When will I stop being like this?
The angel walks to the circus, which leads to the crux of the film's ending - the stuntwoman who plays the angel in the circus. The French-speaking actress, who had probably been exiled from France to Germany, but couldn't show her talent—the circus was unwatched and was about to close—she lost her job and had to work as a waitress. In the scene in the circus, the woman is carrying fake wings and doing stunts on the horizontal bar swing at will, showing that people are not free, even if they have a pair of wings, they can't fly: Visually, they rely on the swing - the effect of external forces; On the other hand, it is determined by the social environment, mainly the employment environment.
Women are sad:
these people I will remember them
Dependent origins always demise
Once had is beautiful
Outside of this city
I finally understand who I am and what I am
Most of the time I'm too sensitive and easy to grieve
I had hoped for a love
that lasted forever and left my hometown for it It would be wonderful
if someone said to me one day, "I love you
so much "
I looked up and the
world was in front of me And
everything filled my heart
When
I was a child I dreamed of being alone Living on a lonely island
Enjoying the beauty of being alone
And just like that
Tired, paradoxical (accordion)
Fear
Like a little beast lost in the jungle
Who are you? I really do not know
All I know is that I do n't want to swing anymore Do n't
cry I always go to the Berlin Wall and I'm always waiting for the photo shooter to get a new photo I can see new faces Every face is always a story Tonight I'm scared, so stupid I'm worried I'm half worried, half don't care How should I live? Maybe it's not a big problem What should I do? I don't know so much Maybe it's because I'm so curious I'm always cranky I always feel like I'm talking to someone In closed eyes As long as I close my eyes The stones seem to come to life Think about the colors of red and yellow desire
The waves of longing for love tremble in my heart The
lack of nourishment of love makes me mediocre and ugly
How much I look forward to the nourishment of love
How much I expect the nourishment of love The
angels look after the woman with great affection, until the woman stands up and looks out, the picture is presented for the first time for color. The director seems to imply that no matter how hard life is and how many troubles there are, human life with vision, touch, hearing, and smell that angels don't have will still have gorgeous tones. This is in stark contrast to the black and white binary color that the world always presents in the angel's point of view.
So far, the angel started to stand on the top floor of the skyscraper and silently watched the highest posture of all beings, and then to the cabin of the plane, to the floor, the driveway, and even to the subway station, showing a gradually declining visual language, for the angel finally gave up the angel's vision. Identity, to experience the five aggregates of mortals visually pulls out clues. Angels also have desires, and desire is where the angelic wings are removed.
The angel who has become a mortal, all colors appear in the viewpoint lens, and when it is switched to an angel who still insists on being an angel, the picture becomes black and white again. The mortal angel woke up after being hit on the head by broken brass armor, lying beside the Berlin Wall painted in rich colors. This is another, equally important desire that the text describes - war.
The film is interspersed with several combination segments. The main scene is on the set. The United States is shooting a World War II-themed film, and the actors are asking all parties for their opinions on Hitler's image. There is also a shot that appears multiple times: the angel sits on the wings of the golden statue of Victory and stares. This goddess of victory commemorates Germany's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. And no matter what period the war takes place, it will bring about the tragedy of purgatory on earth, where life is devastated and cities are in shambles. It is human desire that causes war. At the time of the filming, the Berlin Wall was still dividing the same nation like a thorn. It wasn't until two years later, in 1989, with the end of the post-World War II Cold War period, that the Berlin Wall was toppled.
Contrary to the general consensus, the film records the devastated ruins of post-war Berlin in black and white, with mourning grass in the sky; it presents vivid memories of the past in color. Perhaps it is to express the most cruel desire of mankind - the heavy historical memory caused by war.
Throughout the film, the use of colored cross-scrolling plays two roles, one is the contrast between angels and people's viewpoints, and the other is the contrast between the present and the past. The director's ingenuity is evident.
Comparing two European and American texts about the descending of angels to mortals, we find that there are only male angels, or only male angels are highlighted, so what about female angels? In a patriarchal society, women, as objects of desire, are not qualified to be angels in the texts of male screenwriters? But only as a femme fatale that started with Eve seducing men to commit the original sin, causing male angels to give up their identity as angels and come to the world.
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