Years ago, when it was my turn to choose a film to go to, I cajoled The Old Girl into seeing 'Wings of Desire' by Wim Wenders. Wenders was a favourite of mine at the time, along with Rainer Werner Faisbinder and Werner Herzog - the golden boys of modern German cinema.
This followed on from a couple of chick flick choices of hers that I complained about - 'The Remains of the Day' and 'Love Actually'.
She complained bitterly about 'Wings of Desire' calling it dark, dreary and unbearably long. I admit that it was dark and dreary - and long but I like those sort of 'art' films. She's just lucky that I didn't take her to see Andrzej Zulawski's 'Possession' that I like.
Wings of Desire is a story about an angel who is sick of his celestial life overseeing humans in Berlin. He desires love and physical existence and falls in love with a mortal.Visible only to those like them and to human children, Damiel and Cassiel are two angels, who have existed even before man was 'created'. They and several other angels wander around Berlin, observing and preserving life and providing comfort to the troubled, although those efforts are not always successful. One day, Damiel tells Cassiel that he wants to become human, to feel not only the sensory aspects of physical beings, but also emotional aspects. He embarks on this thought with the full realisation that there is no turning back if he decides to do so. His thoughts are largely because he has fallen in love with Marion, the trapeze artist with the circus. If he does decide to become a human, there is no guarantee that as a human that he will be able to locate Marion or that she will return his affection. His angels, however, may be looking out for him.
I like a scene where Damiel, helping a suicide victim, gets distracted by the thought of his acrobat fantasy lover and accidentally pushes the human off a building.
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"Why Wings of Desire as a post?" you might ask. Well, Robert, in a recent post wrote something so nonsensical and bizarre that I couldn't stop thinking of 'Wings of Desire'.
Well - what do you think about that? Wim Wenders has nothing on Robert's notions of the bizarre and belief in fairy tales. There are a couple of things he says that need highlighting:
- "They are there for everyone regardless of the person's knowledge of facts".
- "Recently. last Christmas I walked into the dining room as the tablecloth was catching fire. I blew it out somehow. Guardian angel!"
- "Of course Guardian Angels are Spirit. We think of them as "he" because they choose to appear in a male form!"
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Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Michael the Taxiarth in Orthodoxy and Archangel Michael is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baha'i faith. The earliest surviving mentions of his name are in 3rd- and 2nd-century BC Jewish works, often but not always apocalyptic, where he is the chief of the angels and archangels and responsible for the care of Israel. Christianity adopted nearly all the Jewish traditions concerning him, and he is mentioned explicitly in Revelation 12:7–12, where he does battle with Satan, and in the Epistle of Jude, where the author denounces heretics by contrasting them with Michael.
-Wikipedia.
I guess that my mother was covering all options there.
Their belief is not fact. Believing something doesn't make it real. It can be delusional.
ReplyDelete"Delusional disorder is a type of psychotic disorder. Its main symptom is the presence of one or more delusions.
A delusion is an unshakable belief in something that’s untrue. The belief isn’t a part of the person’s culture or subculture, and almost everyone else knows this belief to be false.
People with delusional disorder often experience non-bizarre delusions. Non-bizarre delusions involve situations that could possibly occur in real life, such as being followed, deceived or loved from a distance. These delusions usually involve the misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. In reality, these situations are either untrue or are highly exaggerated.
Non-bizarre delusions are different from bizarre delusions, which include beliefs that are impossible in our reality, such as believing someone has removed an organ from your body without any physical evidence of the procedure.
People with delusional disorder often continue to socialise and function well, apart from the subject of their delusion. Generally, they don’t behave in an odd or unusual manner. This is unlike people with other psychotic disorders, who might also have delusions as a symptom. In some cases, however, people with delusional disorder might become so preoccupied with their delusions that their lives are disrupted."
- Cleveland Clinic
I have faith that both my double bass and my violin are angels. Or was it things with angles? Give me time to think about that.
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