Word: faraway
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...Wenders felt no such scruples about redoing Wings of Desire, the 1987 philosophic fantasy that is his masterpiece. This try-everything director correctly saw Wings as an open-ended excuse for considering the changing state of his native Germany. So here, with no apologies, is the fascinating sequel: Faraway, So Close!, or Wings...
...moviegoers, eavesdropping for a few privileged hours on a world more perilous and beautiful than our own. In a lovely scene, Cassiel comforts an old chauffeur (Heinz Ruhmann, a German movie star since 1926) with memories of his childhood. The angel's knowledge validates these reveries, brings the faraway into reassuring emotional close...
...only when spelled backward, and then not nearly enough. But Wenders has always worked on the wild side; even his previous film, the botched Until the End of the World, was a misstep so grand and elaborate it was like a clown's jig on a high wire. In Faraway, So Close! the dance lasts almost until the end of the film. And for those two hours it seems almost seraphic...
...Christmastime, the time of year where nostalgic parents mail their children at faraway colleges things to commemorate the holiday season...
...live with the constant fear of seeing my name on the front page of newspapers trumpeting another misdemeanor of some faraway Jay Kim or Jung Il Kim and having to listen to the same old jokes. In the meantime, I am a man in search of a name. What should I do? Should I pick up another alias? If you think of any scandal-proof, easy-to-remember appellations, drop me a line...