Later, some poems appeared in the film - "When a child is a child, he always likes to ask, why am I me and not you? Why am I here and not there?"

"Under the Berlin Sky" is inspired by the imaginative poetry of Rainer Maria Erke, and the script is provided by the playwright Peter Handke.

This film from Wim Wenders can be said to be a touching Berlin fable, because two years later the Berlin Wall was ordered to be demolished.

This film can also be said to be a profound work that explores the needs of love and what makes humans human.

The film mainly tells the story of two angels. One of them is tired of the fairy life of caring for the common people and falls in love with a circus trapeze artist.

Another angel, played by Peter Falk, finds satisfaction in death.

At the beginning of the movie, two angels, Damier and Cassirer, overlook the city of Berlin from a high place, sometimes gliding in the air, sometimes sitting on top of towering monuments.

They listened silently or observed quietly, a job they had been doing for many years before cities were formed. Their purpose is to give humans hope or make them feel less alone.

But they cannot directly interfere with human life.

The story develops at a leisurely pace. The film is patient and as unhurried as the angel himself. They turned the dial and listened quietly to human thoughts, fears and dreams.

Sometimes, people may feel the presence of angels, but only children can truly see angels.

Why am I here? The answer to this question can be found in a poem written by Handke at the beginning of the film. "When a child is still a child, he doesn't know that he is just a child. Everything is full of life, and all life is one."

Later, some poems appeared in the film - "When a child is still a child, he always likes to ask, why am I me and not you? Why am I here and not there?"

Angels know the answers to these questions, but their lives are not happy either. They might be able to see everything and understand everything through dazzling aerial footage.

But they cannot appreciate the sensual pleasures that humans have, those pleasures in earthly life. In the film, the angels are dressed in black from beginning to end. This contrast between black and white highlights their alienation from human joy.

In an improvised scene, Peter Falk tried on various hats with the help of the costume director. This simple act nevertheless conveys the kind of joy that angels experience in everyday life without being able to use their human identities.

"Under the Berlin Sky" mainly explores the two themes of duality and separation.

In a city divided into two by the Berlin Wall, the world of the soul is separated from the world of senses, heaven is separated from the earth, men are separated from women, adults are separated from children.

's film is most concerned with the separation between people, and there is a deep sense of loneliness in the film from beginning to end.

When Angel Damier begins to fall in love with Marion, a beautiful but lonely circus trapeze artist, the audience realizes that they are meant to be together.

The love story between the two develops slowly, and in the end Damier has to decide whether to give up his status as an angel in order to have a human love with this woman.

The audience all believed that giving up the identity of an angel was the right choice, because the angel Peter Falk had previously achieved happiness through transformation into a human being, which is a living example.

Peter Falke did not lose his soul-level advantages in the process of transformation, and at the same time, he perfectly combined soul and matter, adult mind and child innocence.

Wenders believed that angels should use noble and elegant language, so the lines for Damier and Cassirer were written in advance by Peter Handke, but Peter Falk's part was almost entirely improvised.

As an American actor in Berlin who wants to explore his Nazi past, Falk can be said to be playing his true role in the play.

Thanks to the detective image in the TV series "Colombo", Falk was already a well-known movie star. Children on the street called Falk "Colombo".

By chance, Wenders noticed Falk sketching extras. So he decided to add the scene to the film, and asked Falk to add a piece of improvised dialogue.

"These are extras, extra people." Falk said, "The extras are so patient." This unrefined narration resonated with the audience.

The delicate and thoughtful lines used by Angel contrast sharply with the spontaneity and ordinary triviality that Falke displays in the relevant scenes, and also illustrates the need for these two parts of human life to merge into one.

Wenders dedicated his film to three "angels of filmmaking," directors whose films have inspired him.

The first one is Yasujiro Ozu , who taught Wenders to show the quiet struggle in daily life. The second was Francis Truffaut, who taught Wenders to use a child's perspective as an entry point for profound experience. The third is Andrei Tarkovsky, who created the expressive technique of revealing the soul's longings through slow-paced contemplation.

The simple joy that Falke felt while tasting coffee is a soul-level experience.

This kind of happiness also makes the audience deeply realize that experiencing is the wonder of life.