City Of Angels By Author’s Name

Aus einer Zeit, in der noch richtige Filme gemacht wurden, die mit Gefühl und Ausdruck statt mit Special Effects arbeiten, einer meiner absoluten Lieblingsfilme. Bringt spätestens am Ende auch den härtesten Mann zum Weinen. Ich liebe ihn.

Welcome to Amazon, a jungle in which one sometimes finds movie reviews that are better written than scripts. It is a re-make. But it’s not half bad.

Cage does the best he can with the script. He “falls” from grace for a mortal woman. In the course of so doing, he becomes mortal, but it is not a punishment, it is an experience he chose, exercising his free will. Cage’s character is not unlike that of Starman, he is essentially a light being in a holographic body that cannot experience any sensory perception, because there is nothing “in” the body, no blood, no hormones. It is an ascended soul wearing a “human” costume.

The angel then, is the watcher who is also the man in black. He can see everything, hear everything, but only as a watcher, he cannot interact, be seen, be heard, it is a one-way street. He is “big” brother but in the form of countless individual angels. Few humans notice angels at all, even though “there is one in every room.” Yet no angel can interfere with free will. “Fallen angels” play by the same rules but have more of them and keep their angel memories.

Even those who can see angels and feel their touch might not care what the angel feels. “Maggie” does.
It is the mutuality of interaction that makes the experience meaningful for humans. Humans feel what they expect to feel. At the same time, “Maggie” is the human who wants to ascend. She is cherubic looking. She is selfless. She is ready to be rid of the messy bloody noisy smelly putrid business of sewing up broken hearts that refuse to mend. She is curious to see where they go, perhaps. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Is a moment of love, a few hours of romance worth a dimension shift? Many have said it not only is, but that love is the driving force in the universe. Without love, nothing would move. So some go up, some go down. For each action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The funny thing about love being a driving force is that it has to keep moving. There is no tying it up to a tree, putting in a cage. Even one called Nicolas.

These two souls were attracted to one another not because they “fit” as romantic partners but because they were alike, both curious, both ready to sacrifice everything they know to learn everything they don’t know. True love is often a passing of like-souls in the hallway, so to speak. Seth does not get into the elevator, he waits for Maggie outside, a step ahead, during the courtship. Perhaps he does not want to see her choice of destinations.

The interesting difference here is the idea that angelic beings are incapable of feeling emotion, of tasting food, of enjoying sensual touch. That they hang around us in order to figure out what makes us tick. “Seth” asks “Maggie” what tears are, what makes the body cry. Is it a purely physical reaction? How does it work? He gets the technical explanation, he looks into the microscope, but some piece is missing. In the end, he becomes fully “human” by crying then grieving, then finding joy in renewal by loving little things, the pounding surf hitting the body swimming just in front of a wave.

And so do we all, moving in cycles from observer to participant and back again in the seasons of life and of lifetimes.

see this one, 20 years later and still great.

This movie is romantic and will remind you to appreciate what God has given you.

I understand that movies are produced primarily for entertainment and money. I am afraid that most of them are about dysfunctional people and their behaviors. When some creators of good movies put other virtues in them, we should appreciate that as a bonus. I love it when maybe they do not even realize how inspirational and truthful their creations can be. There are many people on this planet able to contact and communicate with beings existing in non-physical reality like angels (I see a little sarcastic smile on your face, if you are skeptic.) This beautiful 1998 Golden Globe nominee fictional story, which I never saw when it came out, perhaps unintentionally pondered about angels’ actions known to those of us who had interactions with them. I would here list some of them as they were portrayed in the movie.
First, they are angels who incarnated here on the planet into human bodies and went back after they died and those who never incarnated. They are curious all the time and watch us from “above”. Some of them want to incarnate, others do not. There are also those pondering all the time how it could be to live on the Earth and when they are not careful enough, they are lured, become Earthbound and could “fall.” They can fall also intentionally as protagonist Seth is desiring. When watching us, they are fascinated by our five human senses, our ability to make physical love, by our food and other goodies here, because they do not need and cannot have physical senses there. And yes, there are many of them here in physical bodies (perhaps you and me are “fallen” angels as well). The movie beautifully shows that there are many more angels than physical bodies and our Earth can be at times in high demand. Yet most of them can still be scared to try to get here (as first timers). You and I were brave.
As movie shows, children and pets can detect them better than adults. But many adults do as well, whether they can see them, hear them, touch them, smell or taste them, like remote viewers using senses for example, or simply knowing that they are present. The movie is also correctly, I might say, showing that when we are departing physical bodies for good, we have our first metaphysical form identical with our physical body and we might keep it that way for a while. We start to get loose on the other side only when we recognize and apply higher frequencies and fluid forms, or we take our training from Earth with us, and we know right away what we are doing there and where we want to go. Great movie, touching emotional story, I will not spoil it for you, and I highly recommend it to you whether you believe in angels or not.

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