What is he doing stopping the giant wheel? I've watched the movie twice now and I'm usually good with understanding but this thing I did not. Any help?
"There is no I in 'team,' but there is an I in 'pie,' so there is an I in 'meat pie' and 'meat' is an anagram of 'team.'"
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''Time Itself'' pretty smart isn't it
shareYeah, but I guess it's a symbolic aspect somehow related to the Wheel of Fortune. Emit is always talking about Time and how it is the poison that corrupts humanity, or Destiny. He doesn't talk about it directly, but he mentions a prophecy, and destiny is the only way to guarantee the credibility of a prophecy. The Wheel of Fortune defines the cycle of the universe, the divine role that God wrote to each and every one of us, like a story that will repeat itself after it's over. I'm not quite sure, tough.
shareThis movie is a lot about time. Take notice of the flyer that you see hanging around the city it says "Zeit ist Kunst" (Time is Art) Wenders is all about time in this movie.
shareDuring the movie I didn't understand why was Emit Flesti able to talk to humans and angels alike? Why was he so strange? First I thought he was a devil or something like that, but at the end when he talks about the prophecy, then when he is riding the motorcycle with Cassiel and talks about time and finally when he tries to stop the giant wheel I found out he was related to time. Then when I was reading the credits, I read "Emit Flesti" and I remembered that somewhere in the movie they said that if you need a different name, you can spell your own backwards, and I realized Emit Flesti was TIME ITSELF. Thats why he could try to stop the wheel, why when he whistled at the tube station everybody dissapeared, and why when he's around him or the others are saying something related to time.
I found this great, and this is one of the reasons why I liked the movie so much.
I like what Emit said about time at the end (in the motorcycle scene), something like: time is short, but time is endless. We are the creators of time, the victims of time and the killers of time. Time is kind if you are kind, time is your master if you are its dog, time is your servant if you are its master, etc. I don't remember the exact words but this dialogue is really good.
And many more details that come up naturally in the story and build a really good one to watch many times. I'm definitely going to watch this movie again to enjoy the details.