In weiter Ferne, so nah!

I can say this movie is one of the best movies I have ever watched (and I watched a lot of them). The roles were very well interpreted by good actors. Even when they are no actors at all, as Mikhail Gorbachyov who appears in a scene. Many things make this movie special. In it five languages are being spoken. Nevertheless it doesn't really matter. The protagonists can understand what is being said as though language difference is not that relevant for humans to understand each other. The pictures are the usual great Wim Wenders pictures. Black and white pictures indicate the coolness of the world of angels while colors indicate how colorful the world could be for humans (if they can see it!). It is an analysis of the relationship of man with the world around. Humans think that they are controlling the world, but the world is controlling their lives in fact. It shows how blind we can be in contemplating the beauty of the world around us. In this matter one could mention the movie called "The awakenings" (1990) although the two movies are in most aspects different. It is a movie about an angel who wants to become human in order to be able to understand humans, and how he gets into a complicated life. It helps a lot to see "The wings of desire" where the story between angels and humans started. Some things are hard to understand when you don't know the first movie. This movie is also an analysis of time. Emit Flesti (read backward Time itself) is a very interesting character that can communicate with both angels and humans, and who speaks about almost always about time and its meaning. For me he was also a mix of Lucifer and the death angel as well. The background of the whole story is Berlin after the fall of the wall, whereas "The wings of desire" took place before the end of the cold war.

This movie makes a genius use of fantasy to analyze our lives. Its main message is : "We (the angels) are not the message. We are the messengers and the message is love".

这部作品是文德斯那部备受赞誉的《柏林苍穹下》的续集，故事的重点从上一集里誓要变成凡人的丹尼尔转到了他的同伴卡西奥身上。
　　卡西奥也想变成凡人，但他想要变成凡人的动力不是爱，而是为他人谋利。虽然他可以知道人类的想法，可以知道他们的生活哪里出了问题，但是他却不能对此这些人的生活有一点帮助：卡西奥为此深感挫败。
　　当一个姑娘死期将至却恍然不觉，变成凡人的卡西奥试图去救她，可这个姑娘最后还是死了。卡西奥看到以前的搭档丹尼尔现在成了一间匹萨店的老板，和妻子玛瑞安过着幸福的生活。变成凡人的他也有看护自己的天使，卡西奥在他的天使的看护下，帮助黑帮分子通尼从犯罪生涯里摆脱出来，并且和失散的姐姐重新团聚。正当卡西奥为此而高兴时，传来了上帝要召回所有流散在人间的天使的消息。

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