Wings Of Desire Analysis

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The movie, “Wings of desire” is a greatly praised and multi-award winning movie including best directors for Wenders at Cannes 1987. The movie’s director, Wim Wenders was assisted by Peter Handke, the screenplay and Henry Alekan as the director of photography. The main actors and actresses in the film include Bruno Ganz as Damiel, Solveig Dommartin as Marion, Otto Sander as Cassiel, Curt Bios as Homer the aged poet, Peter Falk as Der film star and finally Nick Cave as Himself. The two hours long movie was produced by Berlin Argos films and was dispensed in a black and white set-up by Orion classics of US.
“Wings of Desire” is set in West Berlin during the late 1980s at almost the conclusion of the cold war. It is a film that talks about two …show more content…

We then get five quick shots, totaling 38 seconds, of the life inside four separate vehicles. The first shot is of a couple inside an ambulance. They are worrying about the imminent birth of their child. Damiel places his comforting, invisible hand on the woman 's womb. Next we are alongside a Volkswagen. The woman in the passenger seat is crying, hitting the driver and calling him a bastard. He is sitting calmly, but thinking: "Women just fuck up your life" (1) (Wenders and Handke 17). We are then beside an old woman in a Mercedes. Her only passenger is a large black dog on the seat next to her. She is trying to find the cemetery, presumably to visit her dead husband. Finally, inside another Mercedes is a Turkish family. There are two adult women in traditional Islamic dress. One is in the front seat and the other is in the back with three children. The father is driving and instructing the woman in the back never to put her head outside the window. Thus does Damiel, eavesdropping on a random series of cars, get a quick lesson in the diverse possibilities of heterosexual relationships.QWP
The significant part about these sequences is that they offer the needed information about Damiel 's decision. However, if his decision is to be a significant one, not only him but also to us the viewers, it must be one based on pure knowledge. We cannot easily accuse Damiel of harboring romantic fantasies about human existence and love since the city serves as the ideal tool for assuring the whole of this

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