Paris, Texas

From morning to noon, I watched "Paris de Texas" intermittently, although it was the second time to revisit, but the feeling was still fresh, and the touch was as profound as the first time.

Paris, Texas, one of my favorite masterpieces of German director Wenders, I have always thought it was his best work, and even after all these years of watching it, I still feel that it is impeccably good and perfect. I think anyone who has seen Paris, Texas, will probably be obsessed with the soundtrack of the film, Kinsky's beautiful and beautiful face, and the classic scene of the male and female protagonists talking through the glass. Me too. I love the tone and atmosphere set by Extreme Wenders for the film, as soon as the opening scene, the desolate West, the lonely and nameless traveler, in the sudden sound of the guitar, suddenly grabbed your heart.

Who is he? Where did he come from? Where are you going? The film begins here, with doubts, and gradually begins to explore. He is a wordless tramp, who seems to have hidden countless secrets in his heart, he is found and brought back by his family, and along the way he slowly opens the door of his heart and begins to return to modern society from a primitive state, but the blank four years in the middle are still an unsolved mystery. When he saw his own child who was fostered in his brother's house, he began to smile, gradually closing the distance between him and the child. So far, we know that he has an unknown painful past, and in this past, there is a beautiful and matchless woman.

At this time, the first touching clip appears, Travis and Henry watch the video of the past together, in which the young Kinsky plays Jane smiling like a flower, and Travis hugging each other and playing by the sea, happiness written on the faces of the two people. Even the young Henry was impressed, and he began to call Travis Daddy and began to ask about Mom. Travis got news of Jane from his siblings, so he drove with Henry and the two of them to find Jane.

This is undoubtedly a slow-paced literary film, but if you classify it as a road movie, it is not an exaggeration, the film has a large number of shots of the protagonist driving on the road, as if to match the mood of the protagonist, as the highway extends, the expectations slowly unfold, until the target they are looking for appears. The blonde-haired Kinsky begins to appear in the camera. But at this point we still couldn't see her true face, we just followed Jane to where she worked with Travis and Henry, knowing that she was pursuing a somewhat ambiguous career.

The most classic shot in "Paris, Texas" is about to appear, and Kinsky officially enters the audience's field of vision from here, and before that she was just a vague shadow, a beautiful legend. Travis enters the room as a customer and sees Jane through the one-sided glass, but Jane can only hear his voice, and for the first time she does not recognize him until he reappears and tells him their story.

Perhaps afraid of being too emotional, Travis turned his back to the mirror and did not look at Jane, he calmly recounted the thrilling story, telling their love and hate, as if he was just relaying the story of others, his face did not even have a trace of expression, through the glass Jane first professionally responded, slowly brought into the situation of the story, until she found out that she was one of the protagonists of the story. At this moment her expression began to change, tears flowed down her cheeks, she called out Travis's name, she turned off the light in the room as Travis had instructed, and saw Travis's face at the other end of the glass.

This episode is particularly moving, the lovers who have been separated for four years meet again, and it is in such a special scene that they stare greedily at each other through a window, reaching out but not touching each other's faces. If you love each other deeply, why hurt each other? Isolated by time, distance, and painful memories, you and I are like looking through this glass, even if you can see each other, can you still touch each other's hearts?

Jane told Travis her thoughts and regrets, however, it was only an unforgettable past after all, although the love still remained in the hearts of the two people, they could not go back, they could not go back to the time when they were so passionately in love when they were young, they could not go back to the original heart-to-heart, day and night, because the interval was so long, so painful past.

When we are young, we do not understand love, and when we grow up and finally understand what love is, we are forever isolated from our loved ones.

Travis arranged for Jane and Henry to be reunited, while he himself got in the car and set off on the road alone. I don't know if he can leave the past behind, whether he can dissolve all love and hatred. At this time, the plucking sound of the guitar sounds again, long and long, with infinite charm, and also arouses the sadness in the viewer's heart. The name Paris, Texas, has a deep intention, and it represents the protagonist Travis's dream of finding love in a desert-like lonely life.

When she was young, Kinsky was extremely beautiful, like a bright and incomprehensible rose, although she did not play much in the film, she left a deep impression on everyone who saw her, and several posters in Paris, Texas also placed her in an important position. If I hadn't revisited the film, I would have almost completely forgotten the name. Becoming famous too early also means that it is easy to be short-lived, I don't know where Kinsky is now, but thankfully, she finally left us with such a beautiful screen image at the most beautiful time. I love almost every shot in Paris, Texas, and I think I'll take it out and relive it again and again in my lifetime. Because in my heart there is also a Paris, Texas like Travis, a dream of love that can never be erased throughout my life.