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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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Extended Reading

Alice in the Cities quotes

  • Philip 'Phil' Winter: Taking pictures is a way of proving things. Waiting for the image to develop, I was often filled with a strange unease. I could hardly wait to compare the picture with reality. But comparing them wouldn't reassure me either. As the still images were always overtaken by reality...

    Angela - Friend in New York: You can't stay here.

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: I photographed even more obsessively.

    Angela - Friend in New York: You're really beside yourself!

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: That's why I only took Polaroids...

    Angela - Friend in New York: I don't want you to stay here, understand?

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: What? Are you serious?

    Angela - Friend in New York: Yes, my friend. I can't help you.

  • Lisa - Alice's Mother: I can't sleep with you. But, I'd like to share the bed with you.