From the American West to West Berlin
2014; Issue: 2014 Linguagem: Inglês
10.22269/140422
ISSN2164-7798
Autores Tópico(s)European history and politics
ResumoImportantly, Wenders goes "deliberately and repeatedly beyond German borders," choosing to tell stories not from the "center" but from the margins. 12 National borders and their transgressions characterize his landscapes and cityscapes. From the uncertainty as to whether Travis knows "which side of the border" he is on in the opening scene of Paris, Texas, to the angel Cassiel wondering whether "there [are] any borders left?" in Wings of Desire, there are, as the latter film puts it, "more [borders] then ever. Each street has its borderline." It is in this sense that Wenders saw German-ness as something that could only be experienced in Berlin. 13 More a site than a city characterized by the postwar division between East and West, Berlin also represents the World, since "Berlin is divided like our world." The German title of Wings of Desire, Der Himmel über Berlin, signals not a "story of unity" but "one story about division." Thus Wenders sees the German city, as cities globally, as not only as divided but also as fundamentally and transnationally interlinked. 14
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