on the way

Archibald 2022-04-08 08:01:01

Compared with the Berlin sky, this film is relaxed and even a little naughty.
The place where the story begins is New York, I don't like the city, and I can't see the cuteness from the director's lens.
Then there is Amsterdam, an empty suburban luxury hotel, the little girl said I was hungry and the adults said I had no money, a very interesting conversation, and the Amsterdam restaurant that reflected the real situation of street restaurants in China, especially Beijing.
Then there's a place where I'm too lazy to look for place names, the dreamy suspended train, it turns out that I can walk in the air without the high technology of maglev or the whimsy of science fiction writers. Driving through old buildings and farmland to meet old men and women walking in a car, the buildings in black and white images are the most wonderful.
On the way, there are pranks, there are police, there are quarrels, there is the warmth of a box of drinks and bread handed over for breakfast, and there is a search full of expectations. On the road, is the simplest life, even two people who have never met, are not lonely.
Wim Wenders' shots, anyway, are a little dreamy. So watching the big house in front of me float by and deform from both sides, I also seem to be on the road.

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Extended Reading
  • Carmine 2022-04-11 09:01:07

    The originally lonely journey of self has become warm and heartwarming because of the sensitive, early-witted, and poisonous little loli she met by chance. A freehand road film, Wenders' most successful early work. It is worth mentioning that Wenders' first and second ex-wife both played roles in this film.

  • Jarvis 2022-04-11 09:01:07

    A very light and heavy film, the photography has a kind of casual fun and naturalness, and every street in the city is full of all kinds of lost souls. If you really can't find your goal in life, why not let him lose it? Wandering is also a way to continue life; if no one really understands life, why must people understand it, walking is a kind of existence; if life must be abandoned We, then abandon it. We are all on the road to abandonment.

Alice in the Cities quotes

  • Publisher: You've been on the road for four weeks now and all you've got is a bunch of pictures. You were supposed to write something. I could have gotten pictures somewhere else. You were supposed to write about the American landscape. I've already gotten three telexes from the publisher in Munich and I look like an idiot. So what do I do now?

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: I'm not done yet. That's all.

  • Philip 'Phil' Winter: When you drive around America, something happens to you. The images you see change you.