Under the Berlin Sky

Trevor 2022-03-21 09:02:12

The story begins with a black-and-white image of Berlin, Germany after World War II. The shadow of war has not completely dissipated, and people are looking for light in despair. Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, read each person's heart, gently hugging and offering comfort. Some people regained the courage to live under the comfort of the angels, and some have made up their minds, and the angels are in pain and powerless. They had their hair tied into ponytails, wore dark woolen coats, had no wings and no harps. Only children and the elderly can see them. Every day, they will write down the interesting things they encounter in their small notebooks, and exchange their experiences and experiences with each other when they meet.

In the film, Marion, a beautiful girl who plays the trapeze role as an angel in the circus, is a lonely and helpless French visitor. In addition to a precarious job, she is lost in rock and roll and tells her inner pain to the mirror. Angel Damiel fell in love with her hopelessly, and she also saw him in her dream. For the sake of love, the angel is determined to become a man despite the difficulties and obstacles.

The world in the eyes of all the angels is black and white, and when he truly becomes a human, the world presents a gorgeous color in front of him. He was ecstatic like a child, and excitedly asked passersby: "Is this red?" "Yes." "What about the pipe?" "Yellow." "That?" "Blue-gray." He is not the only angel who came to the world like this. There is also a film actor and former "angel", Der Filmstar, who is American. He took it all happily until he was face to face with the girl he loved, Marion, eye to eye. Behind the music of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds is "From her to eternity." This colorful love is the driving force for Damiel to stay in the world and become a mortal. In addition to deep self-examination and introspection, the film also implies that we must believe in love, obey love, work hard to love, and survive for it. His angelic sidekick Cassiel watches him and Marion start a wonderful new life. The movie is over.

This is a film from a German director, a confidence-building film. There is also a similar "City of Angels" in the United States. I think people who love movies can use these two films to explain the difference between European literary films and Hollywood commercials. But they're all great movies, and I don't feel bad watching any of them. The film does not have a compelling plot. The long inner monologue must be testing your ability to endure. But those words felt like they were all philosophical. Philosophy books, however, are often dull. Angel Damiel doesn't have the captivating eyes of Nicolas Cage. His eyes were full of peace and compassion, and the faint smile that occasionally appeared on the corner of his mouth was heart-warming. The romance between him and the girl on earth is totally different from the Hollywood-style love myth, and is endowed with some kind of symbol. In the mysterious sound and picture full of poetry and music, the director makes people who are confused and hopeless about the world see a ray of light that seems both real and illusory. After watching the whole film, it makes people from novel, to dull, to depressing, there is a step in the middle, you want to give up, but after this step, you will feel warmth, resonance, and then moved. You'll be content at the end...

Director Wim Wenders, who landed the Best Director podium at the 41st Cannes Film Festival in 1988.




When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Isn't life under the sun just a dream? Isn't what I see, hear, and smell just the mirage of a world before the world? Does evil actually exist, and are there people who are really evil? How can it be that I, who am I, wasn't before I was, and that sometime I, the one I am, no longer will be the one I am?
When kids were kids, it was always the question: Why am I me? instead of you? Why am I here and not there? Where does time begin? Where does the space end? Isn't life under the sun a dream? Isn't what I see, hear, and feel the coat of this world? Does the devil really exist? Are people really demons? ...

When The Child Was a Child…..It Walked With Its Arms Swinging, It Wanted The Stream To Be a River….The River a Torrent…And This Puddle To Be The Sea, When The Child Was a Child…..It Didn't 't Know It Was a Child..,Everything Was Full Of Life…And All Life Was One, When The Child Was a Child….It Had No Opinion About Anything It Had No Habits,It Often Sat Cross-Legged,Took Off Running…Had a Cowlick In Its Hair…And Didn’t Pull a Face When Photographed.
When the kids were kids, walking, shaking their arms, imagining the creeks were the rivers, and those little mud puddles, the sea. When a child is a child, he does not know that he is only a child, that everything is full of life, and all life is the same. . . When a child was a child, he knew nothing about everything, had no habits, and often sat or ran with his feet crossed. . . . Her hair was a mess and she didn't make a face when she was photographed.

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  • Harley 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    These are two angels, one from East Berlin and one from West Berlin; one falls into the mortal world, and the other observes in black and white; listening to others' hearts, like the messengers of history. In fact, to put it plainly, it is a movie that tells you, hey, be yourself... well, I shouldn't pretend, it's really a boring movie, it took two days to watch it, buttocks are on pins and needles

  • Amos 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    Wandering lonely ghosts murmured to themselves in poetic dreams. Falling asleep three times and waking up miraculously colored, this dead heavy metal rock band is so refreshing. The female protagonist's body is really beautiful, and the tone is also very beautiful, a bit like "Eternity and One Day" + Kurosawa Akira's "Dream". It's so cool to see the remastered version on the big screen, I shouldn't have fallen asleep, sinned. 【Archive Restoration Film Exhibition】

Wings of Desire quotes

  • Marion: It must finally become serious. I've often been alone, but I've never lived alone. When I was with someone I was often happy. But the same time, it all seemed a coincidence. These people were my parents. But it could have been others. Why was this brown-eyed boy my brother and not the green-eyed boy on the opposite platform? The taxi driver's daughter was my friend. But I might as well have put my arm round a horse's neck. I was with a man in love and I might as well have left him there and gone off with the stranger I met in the street. Look at me, or don't. Give me your hand, or don't. No. Don't give me the hand, and look away. I think tonight is the new moon. No night more peaceful. No bloodshed in all the city. I've never played with anyone and yet I've never opened my eyes and thought: Now it's serious. At last it's becoming serious. So I've grown older. Was I the only one who wasn't serious? Is it our times that are not serious? I was never lonely neither when I was alone, nor with others. But I would have liked to be alone at last. Loneliness means I'm finally whole. Now I can say it as tonight, I'm at last alone. I must put an end to coincidence. The new moon of decision. I don't know if there's destiny but there's a decision. Decide! We are now the times. Not only the whole town - the whole world is taking part in our decision. We two are now more than us two. We incarnate something. We're representing the people now. And the whole place is full of those who are dreaming the same dream. We are deciding everyone's game. I am ready. Now it's your turn. You hold the game in your hand. Now or never. You need me. You will need me. There's no greater story than ours, that of man and woman. It will be a story of giants... invisible... transposable... a story of new ancestors. Look. My eyes. They are the picture of necessity, of the future of everyone in the place. Last night I dreamt of a stranger... of my man. Only with him could I be alone, open up to him, wholly open, wholly for him. Welcome him wholly into me. Surround him with the labyrinth of shared happiness. I know... it's you.

  • Peter Falk: [inner voice] Yellow star means death. Why did they pick yellow? Sunflowers. Van Gogh killed himself. This drawing stinks. So what? No one sees it. Someday you'll make a good drawing. I hope. I hope. I hope.