Wim Wenders always surprises

Nella 2022-04-21 09:02:32

I used to watch the film "Under the Sky in Berlin", which is serious, calm and old. The male lead is too old to be qualified to evaluate whether he is handsome or not, and the female lead is not pure enough. European women in their 30s are mature and low-key, not thin but well-proportioned. , a healthy body, maybe the director's aesthetics are following his age. When I watched it, I just felt that every scene had deep meanings that could not be discovered at one time, and every shot stopped was an impeccable perfect photographic composition. I thought this was another German perfectionist paranoid.
Later, I watched "City of Angels" and saw the plots that were almost the same, but fell out of standard, and then I realized that everything needs to be compared. Good things always make you unaware that they are good, just make you enjoy it, and wait until one day. When you saw Dong Shi, you were shocked by what you missed. In "City of Angels", Nicolas Cage's melancholy gleaming two rat eyes almost made me vomit upside down, but I only sighed that Meg Ryan was too old to let such a scumbag become a pair. A good plot, but it was translated into a vulgar love tragedy by the Americans. What makes love unforgettable is not necessarily sublimated by pain.
Watching "Ten Minutes of Ageing" and seeing Wim Wenders and Jarmusch, I was secretly overjoyed, but the story in the first few chapters of the film was really disappointing, and Jarmusch didn't make people's eyes shine. , until the appearance of Wenders. A few minutes of the scene can make people move. Sick eyes can see heaven, and naive kindness can beat back darkness. In just a few minutes, showing the humor and gratitude of life at the same time, the optimism and gentle heart under the serious shell, this is the magic of Wenders.

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Extended Reading
  • Karley 2022-01-01 08:01:42

    The melancholy at the Berlin Wall permeated the gray accordion; the madness that vented after the war was released in the metal scream of the karaoke hall. The anger of the man surrounded by gasoline, the loneliness of the circus acrobat girl giving up her dream, the despair of the suicide man before the fall, the sadness of the boy alone in the corner, the angel wandering around the world, listening to too many thoughts. It is better to transform into a human being, distinguish the colors, feel the weight, exchange immortality for shortness, and use talent to promote civilization.

  • 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.

Wings of Desire quotes

  • Peter Falk: [inner voice] Tokyo, Kyoto. Paris. London. Trieste. - - Berlin.

  • Cassiel: Twenty years ago today a Soviet jet fighter crashed into the lake at Spandau. Fifty years ago -...

    Damiel: The Olympic Games!

    Cassiel: A Frenchman flew over the city in a hot air balloon 20 years ago.

    Damiel: Like those refugees recently.

    Cassiel: And today on the Lilienthaler Chaussee, a man slowed down and looked over his shoulder into space. And a man who wanted to end it all today put a different collector's stamp on each farewell letter.