No one ever wrote an epic about peace

Bettye 2022-01-01 08:01:42

Look again at what you noticed-from being out of the way to the tide of history, who told you to take a leap. "I'm leaving. But why?" The girl in the library was reading "The End of a World." This is 1987, and it is still a few years before the so-called end of history, which is surging.

But the angels have to talk about the origin of the world, the footprints of Napoleon, and the roads of ancient Rome. As if standing on a high place, killings and ruined walls do not belong to him-as the storyteller of his father's generation, he is the image of an innocent person. One day the flag was erected and people were no longer friendly. The golden age of his search and praise was blocked by a wall. The history of the Nazis became a movie, a detective novel, and a painting at hand. "Will she be a Jew?" Yes. People are affected. People are poor. People commit suicide. But these are outside of history.

And the last scene in the bar, which I didn't like very much-in the end they made a choice. Wenders no longer ran aimlessly on roads without names. Not destiny, but choice. German men and French women, holding hands, go to accept the doomsday together.

The generation after the war will go on forever with the sorrow that follows the same step in "The State of Things". This time he wanted to literally lose his helmet and remove his armor, sold for 200 marks, put on a plaid shirt, and went to a rock concert.

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  • Roselyn 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    Lonely man, lonely angel. I have seen the movies that are closest to poetry. The world of angels is black and white, and it is people's innermost thoughts. The world of human beings is lonely but colorful. In the end, the angels chose the human world. The use of color is very experimental. The angel world has no dialogue, only narration, which is very experimental, but Wenders' thinking and thick about life outside of the experimental.

  • Una 2022-03-22 09:02:03

    Under the sky of Berlin, all beings, from the perspective of angels, spy into the hearts of the characters. Black and white tones, poetic language, flashing the old tower-like aura. Everyone's thoughts are intertwined, confused and hazy, and the national pain can't be seen along the Berlin Wall. A special film, a flow of emotions.

Wings of Desire quotes

  • Marion: [inner voice] Don't think about anything. Just be. Berlin. I'm a foreigner here and yet it is so familiar. In any case, you can't get lost. You always end up at the Wall. I wait for my photo at a photo booth, and out comes someone else's face. That could be the beginning of a story. Faces. I'd like to see faces.

  • Marion: [inner voice] How should I live? Maybe that's not a question. How should I think? I know so little. Maybe because I'm too curious. Often my thoughts are all wrong, because it's like I'm talking to someone else at the same time. Behind closed eyes, close your eyes once more. Then even the stones come alive. To be close to the colors. The colors. Neon lights in the evening sky, the red-and-yellow train. I just need to be ready and every man in the world will look at me.