Loneliness In Wim Wenders Paris, Paris

The theme of loneliness is most certainly prevalent across the three films, each director has within his own right, succeeded to explore what it means to be lonely. Each film has embodied a story word of its own, consisting of an environment, a social climate and a lead character. As well as this, the film’s cinematography style must also be factored in, yet its significance in the context of loneliness, does alternative between the films.

Moreover, we cannot ignore the fact that each filmmaker is a male, and that their characters are also male. This then, allows for a better understanding of what it means to be lonely, in a lonely man’s world, and may also reflect the filmmaker’s own experiences of own loneliness. Thus providing the ability …show more content…
The film’s wide shots, desolate environments all demonstrate this, as well as the ambience of the film, which is generally quiet, silent yet teeming with emotion. Yet Wenders also demonstrates his themes of loneliness through the peculiar actions of Travis Henderson, but then blends them with his environments, to create a symbiotic relationship between the two. What’s more, Travis’ loneliness is also dictated by his past, and thus his peculiar actions and complicated relationships. He is a man who’s punishing himself, and thus ostracizing himself from a society he can no longer face.

Lastly, in Spike Jonze’s Her, loneliness is translated through the film’s zeitgeist, communicating to the audience that Theodore’s loneliness is very much a product of his equally lonely society. He is however, the most normal character of the three, distraught and emotionally ill in the wake of a divorce. He also has friends, people who care for him, like Travis Henderson, but rather, chooses to invest his time and heart into a computer operating system; the exact type of technology that has made his society so lonely to begin