I have to say, I struggled to watch this film. I found myself sitting there in the lecture room with my eyes closing every other line, after all it was about angles. I blame the floating angle camera like movements! Despite this I did still manage to watch it and understand it.
Wings of Desire is about an angel (Damiel) who wishes for mortality after falling in love with a human. The change over from angel to becoming mortal is emphasised though the use of colour change. Going from black and white into colour. This is to help show that Damiel now has a completely different way of experiencing life.
This reminded me very much of another film I had seen many years ago called City of Angels starring Nicolas Cage. This is a film again in which an angel wishes to become mortal in order to feel, touch and love a woman he has fallen in love with. However becoming mortal doesn't come cheap. Once mortal there is no going back. Unlike Wings of Desire this film has no happy ending. Once seth (the angel) finally becomes mortal to share his life with the woman he is in love with she dies in a car crash only hours after experiencing life with Seth.
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