Angel Heart is a 1987 film directed by Alan Parker freely adapted from the novel "Falling Angel" by William Hjortsberg 1978.
New Orleans, the fifties. Detective Harry Angel was hired to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Johnny Favorite, a former singer was disfigured in war. The assignment he was entrusted by a certain Louis Cypher (Lucifer).
The plot (and found the narrative) winds around a man. A man who investigates a (another) man and (for) research itself.
Despite the removal process, burst lightning in the execution of events, such as awareness that occurs during this psychic mechanism that moves away from the ego consciousness which was considered intolerable, and whose presence would cause pain. To
narrative elements used (eg. The egg and soul, good and evil, the descent of an elevator) interweave multiple design elements and its semantics.
Hot air: fans; Water: rain water that washes the body of a woman, the rain water that washes the walls and becomes blood; broken mirror, a woman dressed in black who cleans the walls of a dirty room with blood. The assembly is used
connotative (semantic). The construction of meaning in fact rests on the conflict, or on collision between two or more shots that are next to each other.
Only at the end the detective discovers the horrible truth about Favorite, he is actually Johnny Favorite, an artist who had sold his soul to the devil for success. Once you have fame and glory had tried to break the pact with Satan through a magic ritual, in which he had sacrificed Harry Angel, a veteran War, taking possession of his identity. It is
oppose "I know who I am" to resist the inevitable end (down to hell) of the protagonist.
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