It took two days to go down from eMule to the movie of 75 years of WIM WENDERS.
The second movie I watched in half a year. It is
estimated that the movie review of this movie is basically equal to 0. Today, I have to write something.
The plot is very simple: the middle-aged man WINTER is a German journalist. He was walking in the United States to write an article about the United States. He drove across the United States without a word. He just kept taking pictures with a Polaroid camera: taking pictures of himself, taking pictures of the scenery. Disappointed and ready to return to China, I met 9-year-old ALICE and her mother. For various reasons, her mother left them. As a result, she returned to Europe in Winter to bring ALICE to find her grandmother.
Such a story: (keywords) a man and a little girl, seeking, fatherhood, the way of being.
1. Scenery The
opening is very exciting: the plane floats by, the camera drops and moves to the dark place, WINTER's numb face, he blankly uses his Polaroid to take a picture of the scenery: the dim sea. A bit of a set tone. But where is the bright color without the dim? ?
Then there is WENDERS' forte, and it is estimated that there is no one in the world who is better at making movies on vehicles than him. Car travel: eating, living in MOTEL, refueling, scenery on the endless road. Landscapes from an airplane: Days above the clouds. Landscapes on Suspended Orbits: A Closer Look. But the people under his lens: always so lost and mysterious. The biggest feature is talking to himself, huh, N WINTERs are like this (almost his movies have one called WINTER)
What is the purpose of his countless interpretations of the scenery along the way?
The scenery changes for no reason but the heart remains the same? Seeing the world from a closed environment? Every moving landscape is a story?
No one knows, and his own explanation is probably unreliable.
Just the scenery.
2. The possibility of existence
Back to the movie, WINTER returned home in frustration, there was no flight back home, only to ARMSTDAM. When I was depressed, I got to know the mother and daughter of ALICE. (There are no subtitles in the film. My hearing is not good enough. I didn't understand how to cheat. I was also depressed.) In the end, he and ALICE went on the road. At this time, the camera was more in Alice's hands. She gave WINTER takes pictures, takes pictures of landscapes. A very classic saying: I will take a picture of you and show you how you are now: this proves that you still exist! This is the word of WENDERS! You do not have any will to prove that you exist, and IMAGE can prove that you exist now.
This is a great proposition! How do you prove your own existence: the phrase "I think therefore I am" that everyone knows. But does thinking really prove your existence? The only thing that the mind can prove is your existence in the mind, consciousness is the most deceptive thing in the world! How much does self-consciousness suppress everyone? Few people can prove it in an approved way. The paralysis of consciousness will also create the view that everyone approves, it exists!
The simplest proof of IMAGINE, WENDERS is talking about this. Because you can't prove it from a deep level, you can do the most basic proof!
WINTER achieved his own existence in the eyes of ALICE, so he lost the blurred vision at the beginning. Especially after he was sure that he was going to lead her home, after repeated and difficult searches, without results, but he was not depressed again, because he found his existence, not only on IMAGINE - a kind of Emotional presence!
In the eyes he looked at her: there was a kind of fatherhood! ALICE's recognition and reliance on him is the root cause. The key is that he finds a cane that can realize himself! He can have no regrets towards her, even though she also cheated on him. In the film, WINTER slept with a woman twice, once with Alice's mother (this is a hint) and once with a strange woman who answered Alice's question: Do you think he is like my father? (Alice took WINTER and sneaked away the next morning. Maybe this is a child's thinking - you are my father, you can't make out with strangers) The film does not explain WINTER's past, which is left to the audience's reverie Space. And this time, no matter how tragic the past, how meaningless it was, it doesn't matter. He finally found his meaning. The future doesn't matter, it's the present that counts!
ALICE, pure existence. There are no complicated factors, she just needs to grow up safely under the protection of her relatives. So she can only become the carrier of WINTER's existence.
The film is called ALICE IN THE CITY, but the story comes from the eyes of Winter. This is just a side note!
3. Search There are many
movies about search in the history of cinema. I will not say more, people always tend to long for the unknown. There is always a need to find unknown answers, so there are many search processes: material pursuits, spiritual pilgrimages.
In this movie, the search is just an excuse, and what WINTER is looking for has been found in the process. In fact, ALICE doesn't need to look for it, just like the girl in "Killer Leon". The difference is: "Kill" is love, "Love" is family. If I were the director, it wouldn't have had such a bright ending in the end: finding my grandmother! ALICE and WINTER set off on the train to Munich. Rather, they go home together.
4. MOTEL. Family. road.
A very ~~~~, can not find a word to describe the emotion of these three.
Home is ethereal and nothingness, MOTEL is rest, real, the road is the whole of life!
WENDERS gives this feeling!
The traveler of his world of light and shadow. everyone's label for him
King of the road!
Three A's: alienation, pain, America.
My most respected director! My mentor for getting started with film!
When is the road all in my life? ? ?
When can I live in my own MOTEL to rest? ? ? ?
When can I see my own home? ? ? ? ?
So far!
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