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Release Date: 01 July, 2003 Retail Price: $14.94 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.95! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
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deconstruct this! it's a plea for germans to forgive themselves
what to make of this beautifully shot, very strange movie? something is going on here but you don't know what it is, do you mr.jones? let see, angels observe and empathize with the modern german citizens of berlin. one angel falls in love and wants to be one of the said citizens. an american jewish ex-angel blesses the proceedings while making a movie about world war two and thinking about his dead german grandma (huh, how can an angel have a grandma?). the angels remember and contemplate mankind's many wars. the movie message seems to be; if angels can love us and forgive our follies (we're only human after all), why can't we love and forgive ourselves? besides, it's a new day and peter falk wished us well! seriously though, this very strange movie is some kind of attempt to come to terms with and move on from germany's nazi past. it's a plea for germans to forgive themselves and start over. of course, with the fall of the berlin wall for better or worse they have.
Moronic view of the (lack of) life of an angel
I learned long ago to ignore and laugh at the positive and negative feedback that a reviewer gets. Obviously my one star review of this movie will get negative feedback but that doesn't make my opinion any less valid. It is, after all, my honest opinion, and therefore it is worth something to someone, if only to me. Sometimes I agree with Ebert, and sometimes i completely disagree with him. I think we all believe in our hearts that "I" am the only one with the correct opinion. I would subscribe to that myself.
This movie is PAINFULLY slow and boring. Wim Wenders, next time maybe you will develop a story line, please, huh?
I really hate the premise that the only way an angel's life can be fulfilling is if he becomes human. That is the moral here and also in the annoying movie City of Angels. That's absurd. Assuming that there is life after death, assuming that there are angels, and I in no way discount that possibility because I know how little we truly know, it is absurd to think that the angels have nothing to do but watch over us and wish they were with us. That is offensively stupid and self centered. It is like a child's point of view that mommy and daddy have absolutely nothing to do and are bored to tears when they are not watching the baby and coloring in the baby's coloring book.
So this conception of angels is, in my not at all humble opinion, stupid and offensive. What makes you think that we humans are the center of the universe and the only worthwhile thing that is going on, dingbat?
Stupid premise, and boring story, if you want to call it a story at all. I can't keep watching it. It is still on right now, and I'm writing this review to relieve the boredom.
Later - After seeing the end of the movie, I must add that the final monologue committed by the angel's human girlfriend is probably the worst monologue I have ever seen on film. She goes on and on, saying nothing, in a stupid and self indulgent elongated bit of nonsense that is surreal, meaningless, and stupid.
The only thing that this movie has going for it is that it makes people appreciate simple things about life, like warming your hands together on a cold day. That's a nice and worthwhile thought, to appreciate the very little and insignificant things about life. Aside from that bit of wisdom, this movie is poor, boring, full of itself, aimless, and overrated.
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