Wings of Desire

"Wings of Desire" serves as a meditative film which reaches the condition of literature.  The film focuses as behavioral study of angels, humans, and animals. Angels are spiritual observers and animals act out their physical and material desires. Humans fall in between angels and animals. Angels can be philisophical but they cannot act. The world continues without them. The opposition bewteen angel and animal constitutes the film. Damien desires to be human. He wants to feel and to doubt. Without mystery, life is boring. As a human, Damien must struggle toward meaning. At the end of the film. Damien finds his connection. Two mechanisms within the film promote the human struggle. The circus conveys life as a spectacle and the old man serves as a story teller. The stories and the circus reflect human existence.