Angel Heart

Few movies disturb you, and linger around the mind for a long time. Without a question, Angel Heart is one of them. Keep away from the film if you are addicted to happy ending and can’t stomach hard hitting realities – blood, murder, incest, betrayal. It is a supernatural thriller with a gripping story line. Symbolism is used to the hilt. Every scene is open to multiple levels of interpretation.

It is not a new film, I happened to view it recently by chance. Performance by all actors is top notch, in a way everyone has lived his or her character. It is a dark film and deals with the dark side of us.

Our good intensions are often colored by primal forces. Good person is the one who is not aware of his dark side just like the evil person who is not aware of his good side. At the right moments, at the right place one is capable of doing anything – act of great sacrifice, cannibalism, incest etc...

Soul is used as a symbol of one’s own interior positive self. We know not the importance of its presence till we lose it. Once we lose it, we try our best to redeem it. Since short cut is what we seek to achieve our most cherished goal – power, fame and glory -, we invariably seek redemption too in short-cut. In that process, we complicate our life to the extent we know not who we are and what to do, in utter confusion we swallow and swallowed by our miseries, sorrow and self-pity.

If you are weak hearted, afraid of dark do not watch this film.