The appearance of the heroine Claire does not fit my aesthetic at all, but her voice and expression are consistently sobbing, not too different from her image in "Under the Berlin Sky". The story takes place at the end of the century when everyone panicked, India's nuclear satellite was out of control, roaming in the ozone layer, and no one knew where it would land. Claire left her writer boyfriend Eugene, followed the man Sam, whom she met along the way, and finally found the blind Sam in Tokyo, and got on the train to an unknown place together, and the first part ended. Claire is content that she has found his man and that he needs her and no longer resists her concern even though they know nothing about each other. The beginning of the second part Claire and Sam met an old couple who lived a quiet life in Hakone, Japan. They cured Sam's eyes, and Sam also said that he roamed the world to complete his father's experiment. In this part, Eugene tracks Claire, and finally everyone arrives at Sam's father's laboratory in the Australian wilderness, a peach orchard-like isolated resort, but the experiment runs into a bottleneck and the second part ends. In the third installment, Claire helped complete the experiment, and at the turn of the century people played the melody on a variety of different instruments. Sam's father turned to studying the records of people's dreams. Sam and Claire both indulged in their own dreams. Eugene finally woke up Claire and took her away. Sam and Claire never saw each other again.
In fact, the description of the plot of the film is meaningless, and if the film can be replaced by words, it will no longer be a film. So while the film ends with Eugene's prayer that "the truth in words will quell the screams of wild birds in the sky", and he does use the power of words to awaken Claire, the images inevitably invade our lives, and are in conflict with The interweaving of perception, memory, and subconsciousness leads to impetuousness and turmoil. In my opinion, this film is an amazing prophet. In 1991, when the video media was far less ubiquitous than it is today, Wenders expressed the panic and loss generated by the coming era of video survival. Sam traveled all over the world to photograph relatives and friends of his blind mother, but when her mother finally saw these images, she found that the real world is far less bright than the imagined world. "There are always beautiful things in the dark", No amount of concrete and vivid images can replace the richness and freedom of thought...
I can't write any more, the more I narrate, the further away I get from the film itself, constantly colliding with my thoughts while watching The dialogue, scene, demeanor, music, light and color, once projected in my mind, completely deviate from their essence, and this film carries too much thinking, and it is not a simple comment at all. clearly. I must admit that Wenders was not fully understood, not even at all. If the process of watching the film is reduced to mere feelings, then my feelings are only about me, and all the above descriptions can be completely deleted. "Language is the root of all misunderstandings." It is impossible to expect the narrative to fully express the heart, and it is impossible to expect the audience to fully understand, but perhaps something can be conveyed and influenced by observation, feeling and expression. At this point all art forms are connected, writers, directors, architects, singers, dancers, sculptors, painters, photographers... The only difference is the way of communication, and the scope of influence and Just strength.
I hope I can be like Eugene, the writer in the film. His spectatorship, involvement and rescue are exactly what I expected.
Written on 2005.11.07
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