Review of Wings of Desire (1987) by Bryce E — 24 Oct 2018
The 1987 film is inspired by Berlin's architecture of angels and Peter Handkes poems involving angels. Wings if Desire is worthy of two out of five stars. The angels Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angel partners who enjoy watching people, and talking about what they saw.
They follow people and listen to their thoughts throughout almost the whole film. Most of what the movie shows is the thoughts of people, including a trapeze artist, a holocaust victim, and multiple people in the library.
The director Wim Wenders make some scenes very long and monotonous, mainly when Damiel is watching the trapeze artist for what seems to be forever. The audience may feel that the director felt like he needed to add more time to his movie, so he just made some scenes extra long.
There seems to be no distinct plot throughout the whole movie, and seems to accomplish nothing.
This review of Wings of Desire (1987) was written by Bryce E on 24 Oct 2018.
Wings of Desire has generally received very positive reviews.
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