But the stories I tell are like the beginning of my singing voice. I
use the legends of the chaotic world to perpetuate this unbalanced creature."
The sky in Berlin is densely clouded and majestic At the top of the church, the angel looked down at the world indifferently, watching this ancient and devastated land together. People come and go on the street, walking expressionlessly, busy. Quietly listening to the low voice of every soul, looking down on the subway, on the street, in the library...Everywhere I go, I am full of sadness and depression. The angel wearing a black coat, with a solemn and indifferent expression, just listens and communicates.
"Under the Berlin Sky" has a charming melancholy. They deliberately forget the memory of the war; on the other hand, they are constantly reminded by the reinforced concrete wall. There is a scar in everyone's heart that they dare not face. This is a film made by Wenster after he returned to Germany. He finally mustered up the courage to record the content that he deliberately forgot in the past, so that his own camera did not depict it there. The confusion and sadness of people living under the sky. Angels are the best communicators. They are both outsiders and bystanders in a world that is alienated from each other and full of hurt. They can see through people's minds and give them guidance and comfort. So everything, the transparency wrapped under the black iron, became rational.
This is Wenders' extremely brilliant and meaningful entry point. Germany, a country that once left deep wounds to the world and has a high degree of civilization, continues to move forward amid hurt, humiliation and guilt. We can never understand the mentality of the Germans, anxiety, loneliness, and refusal to communicate. Angels become a window to vent his inner emotions. Beneath the indifferent exterior, there is panic and helplessness. Rock youth, conservative parents, American actors, men in car accidents, youths who jumped off buildings, old people looking for the past, and lonely and displaced girls in the circus... Every character that appears represents a group and shines brightly.
There is one detail in the movie that is very impressive. It was Cassirer who came to visit Damir, whose home was being renovated, and all the furniture was covered with a strange film. Visually convey a state of separation between people. A man in a case, a world in a case. As a result, he made himself doomed, and finally took his life. Cassirer is a tragic character who clarifies the loneliness of indifference and alienation between people. He wants to help humanity through his own efforts. But when he can do something, people don't trust him anymore, he can't do anything about everything around him, and even makes his friends around him fall into trouble. Cassirer is sad to find that human beings are still closed, but he can no longer listen to their voices. There will never be mutual understanding between people. They just talk, but never communicate.
The director's brilliant perspective makes it possible to put large sections of wonderful psychological descriptions in the film. The superb psychological description unique to European literature, which is difficult to express in movies, has a reasonable possibility to be displayed on the screen. Those words that, like prose and poetry, at the same time contain philosophical thoughts, are very moving and inspiring:
"Where the first rain is wet, the sun, bread and wine, walking up and down, Easter, the leaves of the leaves. The veins of the leaves, the grass swaying in the wind, the color of the stones, the pebbles at the bottom of the pond, the white tablecloth outside the house, dreaming of a house in the house, continuing to dream in the next room, silent Sunday..."
"When the child is still As a child, walking, shaking his arms, imagining that the stream is a river, those little mud holes, the sea. When the child is still a child, he does not know that he is only a child, and everything is full of life, All life is the same again...when the child is still a child, knows nothing about everything, has no habits, often sits or runs with crossed feet...the hair is messed up, and there is no grimacing when taking pictures."
"I finally understand that I want to be human, always or never wading across the river, but there is only one river in this world, whether wading across the river is life or death, we never try to be born, go down and watch. Not in the sky, But with the vision of heaven, I will be able to take a bath, shave with a razor. I will have someone massage me down to my toes, then buy a newspaper to read, and have a cup of coffee. On the first day, I will be in contact with humans, and I will be able to Reach out to people around, if someone hits me, will apologize, I get hit, or hit someone else. In the cafe, the boss will find a spot for me. The taxi stops in front of me and I ride away . I will know everyone and feel everyone. I will no longer speak just one sentence, but understand all languages, and this will be the first day of my life."
If the profound philosophical thoughts and humanities in this film are said Caring is thought-provoking and enlightening. Then the love in the film is the most touching and giving people warmth. Love, the eternal theme. Sometimes it may seem plain and vulgar, but it cannot be denied that this emotion is the most touching beauty. It was because I could not forget the touching plot of the love movie "City of Angels" adapted from this film that I was very eager for "Under the Berlin Sky". Although the tone of the entire film is serious and even heavy, the black and white tones and the dejected expressions of the people suppress the viewer's nerves. But the love between Marianne and Damier still radiates dazzling brilliance, it is like a color injected into this black and white film. Balances the tone of the entire movie without straying into some kind of over-the-top mood.
It was her appearance that made him start to think about his position, start to think about his desire to survive, and began to yearn for life with feeling rather than immortality without feeling. He longed to enter her life rather than simply end her desolation. Desire to share all her joys and sorrows. Longing to feel the wind blowing, feel the warmth of coffee close to the lips, longing for the contact with people passing by on the road. Longing for touch, longing for pain, longing for kiss...
I remember what the angel wrote at the beginning of the film.
"When a child was a child, he always liked to ask, why am I just me and not you? Isn't life under the sun a dream? When a child was a child, he only saw apples and bread, and he thought that was his biggest When I grow up, the happiness becomes less and less, and there is only a moment of happiness after work; when the child is just a child, candy is candy, and that's it, under the walnut tree, he opened his hand, very excited, He is always waiting; throwing a branch at a tree like a rocket."
This seems to be an old song, asking the sky like a question to himself, what kind of answer do you want to get? Whether people are born with the nature of desire, but that primitive desire becomes complicated and greedy as one grows up.
It seems that in the eyes of angels, or more precisely, in the director's heart, desire is not sin but happiness, a unique happiness as a human being. Humans are the most alienated animals in the world, and human beings are the animals most eager to communicate in the world. They are not gregarious only for physical survival needs, but from the heart. Is the irreconcilable contradiction the source of desire? ... Wings of Desire
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