Angels – fighting among themselves or with the demons – were the protagonists of horror in a different more or less recent past. The Australian Gabriel – The fury of the angels of Shane Abbess of these, but the example perhaps most popular in The Last Prophecy with Christopher Walken in the role of Gabriel, the first of a small franchise (the following are four at the time .) Legion takes these issues and – with some suggestion from Terminator and, above all for aesthetics, fromI / recensione.asp? id = 29287th "> Matrix – develops them trying to insert some original ideas into a story rather simple.
Los Angeles, 23 December. God is tired of misdeeds and human on Earth has unleashed a legion of angels to bring the Apocalypse. The Archangel Michael, to not agree and want to save Humanity. In a shabby room at the edge of the desert, Paradise Falls, a group of people living their problems: Jeep is concerned about Charlie, the waitress single eight months pregnant, Bob, pap Jeep, is anxious to get on the local aided by the cook philosopher Percy; pending Jeep adjust their car, Howard held in check his wife Sandra, concerned about the high degree of disinhibition of her daughter Audrey, Kyle has family problems trying unsuccessfully to fix the phone. Everything seems decadent, everyone is worried about something, but without any positive momentum. Suddenly, radio, TV and telephones cease doperations. Gladys enters the enclosure, a sprightly old lady and gentle at first and then much, much less. Howard snapped his neck, the poor, warns all who are about to die. A cloud of insects appear on the horizon, then Michael arrives to face with the men the final test.
Use of a nice old lady, a bizarre ice-cream vendor and an angelic child in a more or less unconventional. Interesting desolate air, disillusioned, from old noir on the border, the location decisive for the fate of mankind. Guessed too apocalyptic and mysterious tone of the first third of the film, most gloomy that grandiloquent, as was the case in other examples of the trend. Then began the concessions to a religious-philosophical comparison pretty easy, a doctrine Bignamini considered it necessary for viewers who are not satisfied implicit. In this middle phase, the film loses its grip on the story it tells and frays in psychologymannered. The final section finds a certain liveliness, but conditioned by the use of classical iconography too in the portrayal of angels in the fight and a total surrender to the rules of melodrama. Between blows and shots wildly loses some 'sense of the clash of ethics, but it probably was not the purpose of the film.
Some effective dialogue: When a baffled Bob tells Michael not to believe in God, Michael, in return, replied that normal, not even God believes in him more. And this because God does not believe most nell'umanit and after the flood, now uses more ways slices and violent horror films in fact: the humans possessed by destroying angels are like zombies and besiege the lone local in the desert. Michael armatissimo and acts as a Rambo-worldly (the thing ironically underlined) fights for the men disobeying God because he has lost confidence in them. Lucky him.
The birth of a child as (re) naScythian hope for Humanity Draws The Seventh Sign, which, without shine, an approach was a bit 'more difficult to Revelation. Dennis Quaid suffered thickness d of the portrait of a failed seeking a ransom to his resignation. On TV his local damage Wonderful Life: other angels, other movies.

Christine, a young woman forced by the wheelchair with multiple sclerosis. Resigned to his status as a firm ', participates in a pilgrimage to Lourdes, hoping to regain some' confidence in life. Always smiling, looking for conversation with the handsome young volunteers of the organization, clings all'espressivit the face, the only body part that can move. Spiritual participation to the tour sick in body and mind, all part of a micro world accustomed to solitude and slipped individualism. Quanor vacation days are about to end, the miracle happens: Christine slowly, regained sensitivity in the fingers, then arms and legs up to their feet to the ground and begin to walk. Healing sudden surprises everyone and inaugurates cruel envy among peers. Meanwhile, Christine is enjoying the little moment of happiness, still uncertain about his precarious future.
Christine will do well by all. sweet, funny and curious, but also sensitive and reserved, laconic, as if his physical block he had also stolen the words. Seems not expect anything from anybody, pray much less than the other fellow travelers can enjoy life in despair. Outburst of anxiety that consumes only takes place before God in the confessional, where he pleads guilty of envy normal people '.
But what does it mean to be normal? Casualit rely on a miracle? The search for happiness and integration through the sbidder, ever. The Church dithers, he paints simplistic answers, unwittingly hilarious. Blame the sinful soul and away from the thought. The secular counterpart (the volunteers of the Order of Malta) seems to have stopped believing in miracles a long time, cos you let go and jokes that make fun of Madonna, or accusing glances and puzzled that would create serious difficulties to the sermons of the priest . The normality for them, only a mirror reflecting itself: all are regular and eccentric at the same time. The strength of the doubt overwhelms desecrating Lourdes, the place of hope par excellence, transforming it into a corner of alienating world where the illusion of improvement, spiritual and physical, is sold at the price of garish souvenir statuettes, and mysticism is offered at breakfast, along with hot coffee.
The minimalist style of the director highlights the paradox of sacralit, focusing on the secular aspects. Forit touches and tones popular environments, homage skepticism Kaurismki and subtle irony of French Jacques Tati. Each stage corresponds to a fixed frame (between the most beautiful, the opening sequence of the silent and apathetic preparing the dining room), every action carefully inserted in a harmony of shapes and colors that plays on contrast and opposition. The narrative process is built on the cos sequence of small sequences that move to the rhythm of a swing forever. Christine goes on, regained the use of his legs, touching the happiness (fall in love, dancing and singing as a teenager) but then comes back a little 'back, he fell again nell'assurdit of everyday life, trapped like everyone else in a condition of doubt and continue flying order.