The sequel of "Il cielo sopra Berlino" doesn't work like the first one. Here the narrative construction is based on the problems all material that an angel can find when he decides to become human. The protagonist finds his old friend perfectly inserted in human world (the scene with a lot of food demonstrate all the organic presence and the capacity that the character has to manage it), but he incur in a lot of problems, by the fact that he's not good to discern which are good actions in a world that, as not as the angelic one, is full of strategies and relative decisions and principles. This bring the main character in a vertigo of indecisions and finally in death: the consecration of being a human being. But technically the plot is more in disequilibrium than the first chapter and it lacks all the introspective and reflective flux of thinking that characterized the first movie. In conclusion, an interesting sequel about the difficulties of an angel to understand the complex human life, but without the really deep metaphysical questions that were in the previous film.
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