Monday, November 8, 2010

Solo Sunny, by Konrad Wolf

   Sunny, a young singer, is part of an itinerant group of musicians in Germany. It's hard to get a career started, from city to city and singing at restaurants and bars.

   A substitute saxophone player attracts her attention. She sleeps with him. He is a philosopher. He thinks about death. He composes a song for her. Around the same time, she is kicked out of the band. She finds him in bed with another woman. She sleeps through her attempt to kill him.

   "... Not forgetting is not letting go...", he says at some point about her. This phrase resonates at the movie's final scenes.

   In an act of despesperation, she takes too many alcohool and pills and is taken to the hospital. She returns to her old factory work. Talking to a friend from the factory, she recollects something an early singing teacher had told her:

   "You will either land on the bottom, or you'll be special."

   At this point of the story, she hesitates. She looks quite desperate. Would she make it?

   [cut]

   She is seen confidently walking throught the snow. She wears a fox around her neck. She enters a room where a band is rehearsing. We understand the band is looking for a new singer. She introduces herself: "I'm blunt, sleep with whoever I want, The Tornados dropped me, I'm Sunny."
  
   Close up to her face. She looks radiant while play her theme song. She doesn't sing. There is no more words necessary. The camera shows outside of the building and the white skyline. The movie is over.


Solo Sunny
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Blue - the dawn is growing blue
a dream is coming true
when you will come away
some sweet day.

Red - the sun is rising red
and all my love you'll get
when you will come and stay
someday.

Refrain: Let me sing that song
of the golden girls
and the men so strong -
merry old song.
When ev'rybody else is gone
of the golden girl
and the men so strong -
that old song.

Green - the grass is growing green
and in my dreams I've seen
a snag nest in the height
some sweet day.
White - the sort of tears is white
and black's my lonely night
when you will go away
someday.

Refrain: Let me sing that song
of the golden girls
and the men so strong -
sad old song.
When ev'rybody else is gone
of the golden girl
and the men so strong -
that old song.


Blue and red and white and green
and ev'ry you between -
"She's Sunny" they will say
someday.

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