Review of Wings of Desire (1987) by Sarahlilly — 22 Oct 2018
The movie Wings of Desire can either be a movie you enjoy or one you hate. Two angels walk around listening to human’s thoughts and feelings. I personally did not like most of it. Even though I did not like it, some parts of it were good.
The parts I did not like were with the scenes with the trapeze artist. Most of those scenes were longer than they needed to be and had unneeded dialogue. There was a lot of symbolism in this film and so you have to read between the lines.
An example of the symbolism would be when the movie switches into color and then back into black and white. One of the parts that was good was when Damiel(Bruno Ganz) became a human. We see how he enjoys the taste of coffee and cigars, being able to see color and feel emotions.
To us this is not a big deal, but to him it meant the world. He was not able to feel emotions as an angel or see color. This shows us that we should not take little things for granite because not everyone has them.
Wings of Desire is really slow in the beginning and it is hard to understand the concept. If you do not pick up the fact that they are angels quick enough then you will be confused for part of the movie.
Other than this I think the movie is pretty good.
This review of Wings of Desire (1987) was written by Sarahlilly on 22 Oct 2018.
Wings of Desire has generally received very positive reviews.
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