- said Peter Falk in Der Himmel über Berlin.
The story of this film (translated as The Sky above Berlin or Wings of Desire directed by Wim Wenders)(2) can be summed up in one simple sentence: an angel envies the life of humans and finally he becomes a man. Despite the simplicity of the story, this desire reveals deep feelings and thoughts. They are the elements that form the base of the film.
We can agree that the greatness of this movie is not the action but the words of thoughts.
While listening to these contemplations sometimes existing only on mental plane I can feel the divinity, a kind of angelic. I can see clearly what are they talking about. I hope, you also can.
„When the child was a child
It walked with its arms swinging,
wanted the brook to be a river,
the river to be a torrent,
and this puddle to be the sea.
When the child was a child,
it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.
When the child was a child,
it had no opinion about anything,
had no habits,
it often sat cross-legged,
took off running,
had a cowlick in its hair,
and made no faces when photographed.”(3)
"It's great to live by the spirit,
to testify day by day for eternity,
only what's spiritual in people's minds.
But sometimes I'm fed up with my spiritual existence.
Instead of forever hovering above
I'd like to feel a weight grow in me
to end the infinity and to tie me to earth.
[…]
To sit at an empty place at a card table
and be greeted, even by a nod.
[…]
As you're walking, to feel your bones moving along.
At last to guess, instead of always knowing.
[…]
Or at last to feel how it is
to take off shoes under a table
and wriggle your toes barefoot, like that."(4)
Watch it, feel it and open your eyes to recognise angels on earth...
(1) more quotations:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/quotes
(2) film information:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/
(3) from
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire
(4) see (1)
