American Scandinavian cinema The film is somewhat similar to modern Scandinavian cinema, but without the signature Scandinavian gloomy entourage, and with more refined humor, but it is all permeated with sunlight and such intellectual replicas, movie quotes.
If you are guided not by plot moves and puzzle intrigues, do not expect any missing emotional shocks and existential-symbolic speculations in real life, that is, if you divide films according to the feeling and mood that arose after watching, then I would quite recommend such a line of cinema - "Arizona Dream", "Broken Flowers", "Country of Hills and Valleys".
And, by the way, happy ending, as in the movies do not wait, because these are films that paint life, as it is perceived by a little strange, but quite original and deeply immersed in their vision of the world, people.
The soundtrack is beautiful, in each picture is always inseparable from the picture, whole, finished.
As in “The End of Violence”, the protagonist at the very beginning says what his “escape” from reality is. (I was watching TV, there were sharks, aliens, Russian submarines, and I was afraid of an attack.) Then I grew up and turned my fear into a means to succeed in business – The End of Violence
In the dark, in the wrong light of fire, snatching the face of an elderly person from the surrounding darkness, we hear a repeated spell: I'm not dead, I'm still alive. Am I still alive?
The hero, despite the colorful look of a man who did not pass in the moccasins of a cinematographer, thinks here he is - paradise, the limit of dreams. And the hero, forced time after time to follow the same scheme - stretch his mouth in a white-toothed smile, shake hands with strangers, portray himself as a confident cool guy without a past, but with an impressive one hundred percent American future (defeat enemies, succeed in business, life, in combat, etc.) feels squeezed into the framework of not only one cinematic role, but also a role in everyday life.
He does not know whether his real, unplayed feelings have died, or whether he has completely merged with the image of the “star”?
There are a few funny moments that no one paid attention to, like when Tim Roth pulls out a tape recorder and starts recording his experiences. Hard face, unusually strict, no frills black suit, than not a parody of Agent Cooper?
And in the moment when Howard was exchanging clothes with an old runner, there is an episode when the old man says: I will give everything except the hat, I have been wearing it for 30 years.
In the “Arizona Dream” there is a mention of such an important attribute of a man in the West as a hat (by the way, Mike Hammer, like Magret, is also unthinkable without a hat) – a person can feel dressed even if he is wearing only a hat, if he has a job. What about the funeral urn? How can you not remember “Journey with aunt”?
And the classic episode of strapping a criminal to a policeman's handcuffed? Only this is not a criminal, but a star who escaped from the set, so what is it like to be a movie hero after that?
The film is saturated with mild irony and ridicule.
The finale is the finale of which film? - repeats all the finales of Wenders: he met, but their lives again led different paths.