Under the Berlin Sky

Electa 2022-03-21 09:02:12

Movies from the 1980s, if not Meg RyanA remake of this movie, I wouldn't want to see it at all. It is also a story about an angel falling in love with a woman on earth. 'Berlin Sky' is also a beautiful name, but the opening of the film is so dull. German movies always seem to like to use black and white to express their deep meaning. Two angels in black trench coats, without wings and with solemn expressions, roam the sky over Berlin, the streets, the subway station... everything is there A place for humans, get closer, get closer, listen to their hearts, smile, and leave. Depressing long shots, blockbuster monologues without much dialogue, all monologues record the lives of ordinary people in Germany, their mentality, and the vicissitudes and historical ups and downs experienced by the city of Berlin, about wars, about peace . Angels pass by those who are lonely, but they are only listeners and cannot change anything. Most of the background music is heavy metal with some crooning, noisy and impetuous. The first 90 minutes is like a documentary, which makes people always have the urge not to watch it.
Although all the lines are full of philosophies, it's just that the angel is at the heroine's house, and hearing the heroine's monologue is impressive.
"I always talk to myself like this, like a madman, but I always feel like someone is listening to me." Small details, very concise language, but straight to the heart.
A lot of times the film is a bit hypnotic, until almost 90 minutes, an old man said, "I can't see you, but I can feel you." Then the angel shook his hand, and then everything changed, he started leaving footprints on the ground, when When he wakes up, the world is no longer black and white, and it is not only human monologues, everything becomes colorful, when he asks passersby like a child, this is red, this is green, this is blue, excited flying When I was running, the first time I tasted coffee and smoked, I suddenly felt warm and beautiful. It was like a relief after a long depression.
Although the angel said that he came to the world to experience everything in the world and not to be an outsider, his biggest purpose was to find her, the woman he fell in love with at the first sight in the circus. Finally met at the bar at the end of the film, like two people who have known each other for a long time, as the woman said, you are the dreamer.
Compared with "City of Angels", "Under the Sky in Berlin" has a happy ending, and it is more understated about love. It seems that the theme to be expressed is still the living conditions of ordinary people in the city of Berlin, lonely and depressed but persistently moving forward. Dongdong said: "It's the kind of movie that you will feel a little boring when you watch it, but you will feel very meaningful after watching it." If there is a movie that has the magic power to attract you to watch it again, then "Under the Berlin Sky" is like this He expresses the hearts of the characters in a delicate and unassuming way, which makes people miss those deep and obscure sentences for a long time, and can't help replaying them again and again, feeling the repeated words over and over again: "When The Child Was a Child..." to be moved by the calm and innocent smiles of those children when they saw the angel.
If you just want to watch a Hollywood-style romance, "City of Angels" can be regarded as a classic. If you want to experience a movie with a different style, and if you want to see the movie more deeply, then "Under the Berlin Sky" is a classic. Good choice.

View more about Wings of Desire reviews

Extended Reading

Wings of Desire quotes

  • Damiel: Hey, wait! You wanted to tell me more. I want to know. Everything!

    Peter Falk: You need to figure that out for yourself. That's the fun of it.

  • Marion: [inner voice] I couldn't say who I am. I don't have the slightest idea. I have no roots, no story, no country, and I like it that way. I'm here. I'm free. I can imagine anything. Everything's possible. I only have to lift my eyes and once again I become the world. Now, on this very spot, a feeling of happiness that I could keep forever.