Deseo y acontecimiento en El cielo sobre Berlín

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze Wim Wenders’ film “Wings of Desire”, taking as background discourses the sovereign subject critique carried out by deconstruction and based on concepts as desire or the considerations developed by Walter Benjamin around narration. All of that, without forgetting the contributions of contemporary film theory. The above-mentioned analysis finds out in the film an autopoetics of his maker, as well as a certain way of understanding historical memory and the bet on the possibility of a relationship in which one of the subjects doesn’t expect to appropriate or dissolve the other.