Then God left.
These things happened at the end of the Second World War as we are accustomed to today. Since then, this group of reasons has been "two The angels who fell into trouble in the “second angel rebellion” are trapped in this city. Not only are the release days distant indefinitely, but they have no chance to be allowed to return to heaven again. They are cursed and become witnesses, and they can only be bystanders forever. Influencing the actions of human beings, or intervening in the evolution of history...
——"Trying to Describe an "Unspeakable" Movie",
the first picture of Wim Wenders ’ "Under the Sky of Berlin" (with the opening subtitles and Monologue) The first thing that catches the eye is a cloudy sky, dark clouds accumulate silt, and the clouds slowly turn into an elusive eye. The lens starts to follow from the bird flying high above, looking down at Berlin, and the dilapidated city is full After the war, the gray tone filled with sadness, and the angel Damir appeared on the spire of the "Memorial Church" on the screen. This was the first appearance of the angel and the posture of a quiet bystander. ,The camera turned to Berlin in the eyes of the angel again: looking down from the air, the streets were crowded with expressionless faces, a child stood among the passing pedestrians suddenly raised his head and looked upwards, the camera followed the child’s line and turned again On the steeple of the church, the angel Damir stood on the steeple. A car drove across the street, and there were two girls sitting inside. One of them looked up, and then stabbed the girl sitting in front of him. The girl said: Look! The camera gradually moved away from the church, and the angel was still looking down, and then the picture was superimposed into a close-up of the angel’s wings. Finally, the camera descended from a very high altitude, slowly stabilized, until it reached the person’s point of view.
Wenders's perspective from the air, to the city, to the monument, then from the angels, to the world, back to the spire, and finally back to the world, is unprecedented in technology. A deeper meaning is to show a With a wait-and-see attitude, the angel stood at the highest place watching the suffering people, listening to their inner voices, what kind of a confused, helpless, and painful whisper, although his eyes revealed infinite love, He is full of kind humanity, but he can only listen silently, suppressing the pain in his own heart, and is powerless.
"Under the Sky of Berlin" has a more disgusting name called "Wings of Desire". What is the desire of angels? They are human beings. Angels have no sense of touch. They are color blind (most of the movies are black and white). They can feel pain and happiness, but they are the voices of mortals. They can’t wait to fall into the world, even if Just feel the heat of the coffee in your hand and a collision with a pedestrian. Damir said in the movie: I want to go down the river. This motto is often heard, and I don't understand its meaning until today. There is no river bank except for the river beach. As long as we are in the river, the river beach will exist. Don't just look at it, enter the river beach of the times, the river beach of death! Stop looking at things that are not born. Watching is not watching, things happen right in front of your eyes. . . . . This was the first thing he had to do after he became a mortal-----Xiahe.
Damir, who had become a mortal, was smashed into a sky full of gold stars by the armor that fell from the sky, but he was lying on the ground with a smile, touching his head, and seeing the red blood, he was even more excited to hold passers-by and asked:
Damir: Is this red? ?
Passerby: Yes, are you injured?
Damir: Have a good day!
Renlu: Not bad.
Damir (finger with drain pipe): What about the pipe?
Passerby: The pipe is yellow.
Damir: Yellow?
Passerby: Yes.
Damir (finger the colorful picture on the Berlin wall): What about that?
Passersby: blue-gray.
Damir: Blue-gray. what about this?
Passerby: Tawny.
Damir: Tawny, yellow, red. what about this?
Passerby: This is green.
Damir: Green, where's the one above the eyes?
Passerby: blue.
Damir: Blue, blue. Is it cold today?
Passerby: It's already cold.
Damir: Oh, I really want to have a cup of coffee.
Passerby: Are you out of money?
From then on, the angel’s world had skin pain, the cold river water, brilliant colors, and the bitter aroma of coffee. Then, he also had his own happiness and sadness. The angel was no longer powerless, he could use his own power to do what he liked. Things, no longer can only look at others' sadness and dreams lonely, and pursue longing. Wenders let the angels go down to the world, on the surface, they have freed themselves from the pain caused by the helplessness of angels only as bystanders (also unable to personally experience the helplessness of happiness), and liberated their desire to be humans, but from the other On the one hand, it also gives life a kind of self-stubbornness. The real life feeling (happiness or pain) is different because of each person's life experience. Angels become mortals, the greatest possibility is Changing oneself, this seems to fulfill the angel's compassionate caress to mortals, but in fact it is just a stubborn self-promotion. An angel is an angel, and a mortal is a mortal. There will be no mortal like an angel, and naturally there will not be an angel like a mortal. The dialogue between the two angels proved this point. Damir had just become a mortal and couldn't help but say to Cassirer with excitement: I will let everyone know me and let no one doubt me. Without saying a word, being able to understand any language, this is my first day. Cassirer's answer is simply: but nothing will really happen. . . This shows that angels are still powerless bystanders when they become mortals. . Oh, Wim Wenders, turned out to be a sober realist. . .
But Wenders is not all pessimistic. He gives hope to the innocent children and romantic love. The poems that appear many times in the movie are like a dazzling sunlight, interspersed from the hazy sky: when the child was a child , I
didn't know that
I was a child, and
I was full of emotions for everything.
When the child was still a child, he was led to walk.
I hope that the pond will become a big river, the big river will become a torrent, and even a puddle will become the sea.
When a child was a child, he
didn't know that he was a child, he was
full of emotions for everything, and
there was only one heart.
When the child was a child,
there was no prejudice or habit. He often sat in a tailor's chair
with a whirling child on his head,
running between vendors,
and never posing in front of the camera.
In the movie "Under the Sky of Berlin", children make the world more hopeful, while love makes angels become mortals, descending from the sacred heaven to the sorrowful earth. Wenders selflessly gives us hope in the world. Give us a reason to fight for a better world. As a sober person, he has put forward a deeper guiding meaning for people's lives.
Many people like to compare "Under the Sky in Berlin" with "City of Angels" (Nicholas and May), and many people are under the prestige of masters, and beat the latter to death. Hollywood's business There are not many movies that can be made as fresh and beautiful as "City of Angels". From this perspective, "City of Angels" naturally has many advantages, whether it is the graphics, plot settings, or the use of soundtracks, they are all excellent. These two movies are not on the same level at all. I want to compare green vegetables with bicycles. How can this be a comparison? "City of Angels" just stripped the love story of "Under the Sphere of Berlin", and this love, in the latter, has almost nothing special, it is just a part of life, not all of it. Vinced’s intention is far above love. From his movies, we see the sore of history and the true face of life. He is actually like the angel sitting on the spire and looking at the world coldly. But there is one more responsibility than angels, using images to convey everything he knows, no matter how dark and solemn it is, in the end it is hope. Read "Under the Sky of Berlin" again, the last line is Wenders's last monologue: I am a bleak person and no nationality. I insist on staying here, being free and loving, everything is possible. I just need to look up and I will become the world. . .
In 1993, Wim Wenders filmed the film "The End of the World", which also featured angels as the protagonist. . I like it better. . . . There is no room for writing more wasteful words. . . Leave it to the next angel...
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