Wings of history, angels of desire
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2012.71147Keywords:
Cinema, photography, audiovisuality, everyday life urbanity, cultural history.Abstract
Analysis of the reading that the film Wings of Desire (1987),
directed by Wim Wenders, does of the city of Berlin, emphasizing
the harmony of audiovisual project with the writers Walter
Benjamin and Rainer Maria Rilke. We can note the German
city divided and fragmented by the war trauma, but also waiting
for the imminent fall of the Berlin Wall. In the filmmaking
narrative, the figure of Benjamin’s “angel of history” supports the
idea of knowledge articulated by the light of the truth and the
love and the “unsustainability” of conception based on historical
supremacy of winners.
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