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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
  • Ola 2022-04-10 09:01:09

    The second Wenders, compared with the first "Texas", is less empty and more light and self-deprecating. The camera has always recorded a reporter who is doubtful about his own world with a calm attitude. On the way of looking for "home", the little girl gradually became "certain" about herself. It seems that it has nothing to do with redemption, and it seems that they have obtained something from each other. There is also no shortage of American culture's pervasive depictions of Europe. The aerial photography of the advancing train at the end of the film seems to imply that "keep going" is unforgettable.

  • Hailee 2022-04-13 09:01:06

    Still a strong Wenders flavor. In road films, it doesn't matter whether you can find the target or not, whether you solve the problem or not, the important thing is that you can swim comfortably in the end.

Alice in the Cities quotes

  • Lisa - Alice's Mother: What are you writing?

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: The inhuman thing about American TV is not so much that they hack everything up with commercials, though that's bad enough, but in the end all programmes become commercials. Commercials for the status quo. Every image radiates the same disgusting and nauseated message. A kind of boastful contempt. Not one image leaves you in peace, they all want something from you.

  • Alice: Do you think he's my father?