When the child was a child, he rocked his arms and stumbled. He wanted the streams to merge into creeks, the creeks to turn into rapids, and the water zephyrs to become the sea.
When the child was a child, he was still ignorant, and in his eyes everything was full of life, all life, nothing alike.
When the child was a child, he had no preconceived notions about anything, he was naive, he always crossed his legs and sat quietly, with a lock of disheveled hair in front of his forehead, even when taking pictures, he did not move.
This is the poem recited repeatedly in the movie Under the Dome of Berlin.
A classic, a scarred city, countless lonely and confused souls. Over the sky of ancient Berlin, an angel is quietly passing by, an angel overlooking the earth; the language of the angel is poetry, can not be heard; the eyes of the angel is only black and white, can not see the color, can not feel the temperature; the life of the angel is infinite, a thousand years, 10,000 years, and so noiselessly and gradually passed by ...... Denmire meets the circus in the The beautiful actress Marianne, listening to the hammy voice inside her, and love descends without a sound. For her, the angel gives up infinity to descend to earth. And the temperature of the earth allows two lonely souls to recognize each other, to meet and reunite in love, no longer lonely or wandering.
German director Wim Wenders' Der Himmel uber Berlin (aka Wings of Desire), with the perspective of an angel and a grayish tone, quietly examines this historic city full of pain.
Berlin in the movie is forever associated with scars, but Berlin actually gathers all kinds of beauty: the classical beauty of churches and medieval palaces; the philosophical genes and cultural beauty inherited from masters such as Hegel, Kant, and Marx, and the architectural beauty shaped by the Bauhaus style ...... This is a city of death and rebirth, a city of freedom rebuilt on top of the ruins, cohesive rich history and deep thought. It may not be suitable for small freshness, but traveling through the human geography of Europe, this is undoubtedly a landmark that can not be bypassed. In this article, we will follow the footsteps of the angel to get closer to Berlin and experience the heaviness and depth of this city.
In the beginning of the movie, the angel Damier stands on top of a dilapidated church overlooking the earth, transparent wings appearing and disappearing, and children raise their tender heads under the dome of the sky to look upward. The church's gothic spire has collapsed next to the modern skyscrapers.
This stark contrast between old and new is Berlin's famous Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, a symbol of Berlin's reconstruction after the war. It's also known as the "Church of the Broken Roof" because it retains the steeple that was blown up during World War II. The interior of the church is actually very beautiful, with exquisite frescoes. At night, when the lights are on, the blue glass windows give off a strange charm. The old and the new are one and the same, and it epitomizes what Berlin is all about today.
On one side of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is the famous Electoral Street, where two angels sit in a car and calmly tell stories from all over the world at all times. Outside the window, a couple kisses on the street like no one else is watching. Behind the young man is the "Maison de France" building, located at 211 rue de l'Electoral, which is still open today.
The street is the main shopping street in Berlin's West Side, and is known to the Chinese as "Crotch Street" because of its pronunciation (Ku'damm). Nowadays, the street is bustling with high-rise buildings, and major brands such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Hermès have stores on the street.
Borges said that heaven should look like a library .
The angels in the movie wander around this "paradise" of books, observing all the living things.
The Staatsbibliothek Berlin, formerly known as the National Library of the Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin, was founded in 1659 and is the largest comprehensive library in Germany. Nowadays, the Berlin State Library consists of two parts, located in the 1st building under the linden tree street, the main collection of historical books up to 1955. Building 2 on Potsdamer Stra?e, completed in 1978, serves as a lending and large-scale information library, and Cahill's Wandering Library, Potsdamer Stra?e's Building 2, has a distinctive ceiling.
The angel Cahill accompanies the elderly raconteur as he walks through the dusty, muddy ruins of Potsdamer Platz during the Cold War.
Today's Potsdamer Platz is a very different place from the one in the film, with little trace of its former self. The new Potsdamer Platz, rebuilt from the ruins, is the most prominent symbol of the "new Berlin," with its many skyscrapers and bustling buildings. The most famous one is the Sony Center with its scalloped roof. At night, the roof juts out above the older buildings and shines brightly.
Berlin's most famous monument is the Berlin Wall.
Next to Potsdamer Platz, where the angel walks in the movie, is the Berlin Wall, which was still standing strong. It was also next to the Berlin Wall when the angel Damir landed on earth for the one he loved. The Berlin Wall was built by the East German government in 1961 as a closed border defense system around the West Berlin border, separating East and West Germany, and was still standing at the time of Wenders' 1987 film.
For more than two decades, the wall has held back some of the exodus, but how could the hearts and minds of the free succumb so easily? Countless East Germans risked death to flee to the West, and the movie The Wire is the backdrop for the story of the oppression and struggle of the East Germans.
After 1989, with the fall of the East German government, Berliners joyfully tore down the Wall, ending a period of isolation, and leaving the Wall as a reminder of that dark past.
Once the Berlin Wall imprisoned bodies. The Berlin Wall collapsed, but the thoughts that brought are still pouring out. Is the invisible wall between people still there?
Angels landed on earth, and the story of Berlin continues.
Berlin was once described by its former mayor as "poor but sexy". The city is half past and half present, a mixture of decay and prosperity. A true paradise is not to be found in Berlin, but the minds and souls of those who seek freedom are alive and well in the city.
The movie says that the world is full of people who were once angels and came into the world for love. We wander between black and white Berlin, constantly feeling and thinking that maybe at some point, an angel will also come to this earth for us and recite an old poem.