You love blue, and you love Wendine. The surface of the water is the boundary between life and death, and the underwater is the field of dreams and pure love. Being washed by water is the baptism of the tide of love, and the love of the human heart is the tears in the red eyes. Hello Wendine, the water spirit, returning to the mother of water, wrapping you, ending and drowning.

The creation of the story is calm and has a sad undertone. The encounter of a pair of lovers is also the split of a pair of lovers. Unlike the symphony in blue, it was written by a great musician but suddenly blown by the homeless on the street. The accident in Wendini is traceable, a metaphor and a suggestion. Statues of industrial divers, statues of Easter Island, broken legs, red wine spilled on the walls, UNDINE engraved on the stele at the bottom of the lake, this is the embodiment of a very strong fate line. But also similar to the symphony, that call that was "proven" to not exist, do you believe it exists? I believe, of course I believe, only love is a very strong divinity that can transcend. Just like the moment Wendini walked into the lake, at the same time, Christopher on the hospital bed suddenly woke up.

This plot is not uncommon, but what is interesting is that its appearance makes people feel strange and in line with divinity after a long time. The director named after the goddess at the beginning, the encounter and the phone call and the narration of the city's history gave the story a foundation that could lead to divinity. The fate line that we thought was about to be human, suddenly and logically moved towards divinity.

At the same time, the director also used the heroine's role as a commentator to add Berlin's history to it. The urban temperament seems to be a sad game. This also gets rid of the thin elements in the love story, giving it a stronger macro vision. The occupational title of the two people seems to be a metaphor of modernity, and people are determined by occupation.

In particular, I like the section where two couples pass by in the avenue. The six shots outline the uneasy mood. When Christopher mentioned it on the phone, the sixth shot was interspersed again, but the angles were subtly different, as if the memory was suddenly aroused. This is like the sudden pull and flashback of the timeline, which has been expanded to an unprecedented depth, but there is no contrived skill.

Wentini's death made me understand one thing, the real death of a character is that it disappears at all times, the characters are no longer mentioned, the memories are no longer inserted in the movie, and the audience in the movie is also attracted by other content. trip. I deeply felt that he was smiling and looking forward to a new life, and he always used his imagination to construct the thoughts of his deceased lover for him.

To sum up, that is, human nature and divinity are constantly struggling, and their love is a ghost.

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Darian 2022-03-15 09:01:11

A crystalline and fragile urban legend. Indulge in the embarrassing sense of wrong shots in Petzold's narrative, the disappearance and reappearance of lovers, the encounter as if they had loved in the previous life, the questioning after tender parting, the accident after dislike quarrel, the awakening after death, and the memory after forgetting. Come. The dark clouds of the last time and space have always hovered in the present in a virtual form, and hid in an unknown corner in a physical form, such as those Berlin landmarks that traveled through history, covered with dust and new. The fascinating illusion does not depend on the filling in a single image, but forms a distant resonance between the scenes of the script. The state of the characters in the lens always precedes the words and actions, as if there is a premonition before the event occurs. Like reality, we must have had a hunch before all misfortunes come.
Taryn 2022-03-17 09:01:09

The fun of watching Petzold is to see how he brings the ingenuity of elemental spirits to the ground in love stories, so seeing the models of Berlin buildings and the memories that flow between the streets and bridges of real Berlin frequently overlap, or Yes, the break of the diver's model clumsily heralded the diver's catastrophe. In fact, in addition to killing the ex in response to the myth of Wentini, the whole story can be regarded as a deformation of "The Daughter of the Sea", the little mermaid throws away the dagger that was supposed to assassinate the prince and jumps into the sea and turns into foam , has the same power as Wentini's falling into the deep: the supreme love is to love others, my heart should not miss a single beat in your hands, so love must call for sacrifice and death.