City and Loneliness in Wenders' Eyes

Adella 2022-04-10 09:01:09

The way the film feels: The black and white long shot moves to a medium and close shot, with a sad string music. After singing, put away the photo, leave, the first full paragraph. ) The first shot I was fascinated by appeared, there were houses, palm trees, women walking, vehicles along the street and stopped by the sea. Swapping the advancing sleep shots and images, taking pictures of sleeping people and TVs that are still on, can express loneliness because no one turns off the TV for him. After waiting for a while, the soundtrack at the beginning sounded again. When it comes to the camera, immediately cut to the close-up. Countless means of transportation (airplane, train, car), infinite scenery. "But the article is about what you see - signs and symbols" "I'm not dissatisfied, but what does he want" The opening soundtrack becomes an emotional soundtrack, as if the soundtrack plays whenever the protagonist has a certain emotion. It's a kind of synaesthesia, but the role cognition has been fixed and the information is conveyed by sound. "When you lose your sense of self, you lose touch with the world." "You keep taking pictures just to prove that you're constantly observing something." "I don't know how to live, and no one teaches me." The intersection of the city is like an open space in the city" This is a good foreshadowing. After being kicked out, let him live with them and let him live with the flow, after being rejected once, taking the initiative to stay has changed to taking the initiative to leave. Traumatic stress should be "I can't have sex with you, but I don't mind splitting the bed with you" q "No calming picture, they all want something from you" Isn't that what today's movies are moving under a telescope? dove

The last aerial shot of the train is even worse than "Red Circle".

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Extended Reading
  • Gia 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.

  • Russ 2022-04-08 08:01:01

    CC restoration, the clouds of the Empire State Building in New York, the missing mother in Amsterdam, the upside-down train in Wuppertal, the dilapidated hotel in an unfamiliar city, the city roaming, slowly recovering memory, children and adults quietly guess the size.

Alice in the Cities quotes

  • Alice: Do you like flying?

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: No.

    Alice: I like the food. It's nicely wrapped up.

  • Alice: What is it?

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: Fear.

    Alice: What kind of fear?

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: Are there different kinds?

    Alice: Yes.

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: I'm afraid of fear.

    Alice: Why are you afraid of fear?

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: Yes. Why?