The Art of Seeing Rescues the Existence of Things, part 2

Like his lead character, Wenders abandoned the written text once the production had returned to Germany: Quand je suis venu en Europe, j’ai oublié de plus en plus le scénario. Reinforcing this underlying idea that he is trying to get at some fundamental existence or a basic reality, Wenders calls the camera, “a weapon against the tragedy of things, against their disappearing.” The artist enters the subject as opposed to, “standing over against it and watching its successive parts or selecting points of view of it.” Cela a beaucoup de choses à faire avec ce que raconte Kamikase dans la cabane quand il raconte cette histoire où le garçon a appris à lire dans des lignes qu’il prend pour des voies où les lettres marchent le long des voies, et où la plume est quelque chose comme une moto.60 That has much to do with the story Kamikase recounts in the booth about the boy who learned to read in lines which he took as highways where the letters walked the length of the highway and the pen was something like an automobile.