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Elda 2022-04-08 08:01:01

The prototype of the Winders road movie is as good as Paris, Texas a decade later.

American Dream, Polaroid SX-70, rock and roll, road trips, blond kids, jukeboxes, and gritty black and white movies. Wenders himself acts as a passerby by the jukebox in the opening credits.

When you lose your sense of self-identity, you lose touch with the world. You are desperate to take pictures, you want to compare the real world with pictures; you want to prove the meaning of existence, you are on the road of endless repetition and repetition.

Sometimes you also wonder, should you be someone else too? Should it also prove the value of its own existence? (even if nothing is particularly meaningful)

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  • Ettie 2022-04-10 09:01:09

    Four and a half stars. The most boring movie in the film industry is in Europe, and the most boring movie in Europe is in Germany. The best boring movie in Germany is undoubtedly the German Four Heroes. Among the Four Heroes, the most boring movie is Wenders. Okay, for me, it's no problem to get this film done~~ Little Loli is very cute, she is cute in neutral dress, and she is also cute when she is naked...

  • Amara 2022-04-10 09:01:09

    #WendersFilm Festival# The first part of the road trilogy of wenders, the fourth film of the director's film career, but it is the first film in the true sense that he recognizes in his heart, because it is a film that he made a big bet on , is of great significance to Wenders, success will continue the film career, failure will give up the road of directing, but God obviously favors Wenders, this is a "wen-style" road film with a high degree of completion. It is a journey to find relatives, it is better to say that it is a mental journey of integration between Europe and the United States. After the war, people's wounds need a healing journey to soothe them, and the stupid business society will only make people more sad. This is also my personal favorite of the "Road Trilogy". PS The nine-year-old girl "acted" very well, she was definitely a queen, if she was acting.

Alice in the Cities quotes

  • Lisa - Alice's Mother: Would you wait with us? Otherwise, I don't know how I'll stand it.

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: I can do that, but I'm not very entertaining.

    Lisa - Alice's Mother: You could be mute for all I care.

  • Philip 'Phil' Winter: I got completely lost. It was a horrible journey. Once you leave New York City nothing changes anymore. It all looks the same. You can't imagine anything anymore. Above all, you can't imagine any change. I became estranged from myself. All I could imagine was going on and on like this forever. Some nights, I was sure I would go back the next morning. But then I'd keep on driving, listening to that vulgar radio and every night in a motel that looked just like all the others before. I'd watch that barbarous television. I didn't know what hit me.

    Angela - Friend in New York: You haven't known that for a long time now. You don't have to travel across America for that. That happens when you lose all sense of your own self. And you lost that long ago. That's why you always need proof, proof you still exist. Your stories and your experiences - you treat them like raw eggs. As if you were the only one to experience things. And that's why you keep taking pictures. They're something you can hold on to, more evidence that it was you who saw these things.