Movies Angels And Demons

[Charo Lemucchi]

Iremember the first "demon" I came across in a film. More accurately, it was a poltergeist. Thought not technically a demonic force the actions of this pesky little spirit were demonic enough. You see, I grew up in the town of Poltergeist, the movie. I used to ride my bike past the poltergeist house in Simi Valley, CA. Each time, images of TVs flicking on by themselves, possessed clowns, and bodies emerging from the front lawn would creep into my mind.

Then, there were the angels. John Travolta as Michael, the post-modern angel-human romance of Wings of Desire (Der Himmel ber Berlin), Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life, or the kickass, androgynous, Tilda Swinton Gabriel in Constantine. No matter the angel movie, I have always preferred them to pop-culture demons (though Paul Bettany's angel in Legion may be an exception).

Many people believe that guardian angels watch over them and protect them from harm. Many Christians even refer to real people as angels when they help them through difficult times. Through faith, we believe that God can inspire our friends or family to be there in our time of need. While you may not have wings or a halo, God can quietly encourage you to be in the right place, at the right time for someone who needs your help.

From a busy business woman who learns what it means to truly have a servant heart, to a group of preteen gamers who rally around their heartbroken online friend, people of all types and from all walks of life are featured in this powerful series about how we can be challenged, encouraged, and ultimately changed in the most unexpected ways from a God who longs for personal relationship with his people. Never preachy, God the Father is featured as the kind of father who meets his children in exactly the way they need, helping them to arrive at the answers they might not even have thought to ask.

Featuring Karen Abercrombie and Cameron Arnett, God sends the archangel, Eden, to Earth where she is placed with people who are about to make a life decision that will impact them and others around them. Will Eden be able to help, or will Lucifer get in the way?

We know, we know, this technically isn't a "movie" about angels, but it's two main characters are indeed angels so we felt it was appropriate to add to this list! There are no chance meetings or coincidences in life. Angels are amongst us and God has sent them on a mission to intercede on behalf of whispered prayers. Every encounter presents a new opportunity to change your approach to life.

Promise, Texas is no place to raise a family. There's no rain, businesses are failing, and kids can't wait to grow up and move away. Some folks say the town is cursed. But just when things are at their darkest, a mysterious boy wanders out of the wilderness with nothing but the clothes on his back and a strange mat tucked under his arm. He has a message for the people of Promise, but they're slow to listen. Confronted by their spiritual shortcomings, the town's indignation turns to outrage. Still, the boy holds true to his message: there is no hope without Christ, and Promise can only be remade through earnest communion with the Father. Who is this boy? Find out only by watching the movie, "I Am Gabriel."

What would happen if you had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ? Get your adrenaline and your faith flowing with this Pure Flix original series about an authoritative, mysterious figure known only as "The Man." Over the course of the series, "The Man" confronts people struggling with a crisis of faith and convinces them to turn away from evil.

The world's greatest atheist has a near-death experience that challenges his views and forces him to reconcile what he witnessed with his firmly-held beliefs about God. Wrestling with his own demons, Dr. Sol Harkens, played by Kevin Sorbo, this is one of the movies about angels and demons that will renew your hope in our God.

When the star soccer player is injured, coach decides to play the water girl, McKenzie. Although not the best, the clumsy girl accepts the challenge and, following a rocky start, actually begins to improve...But what her teammates don't know is that she's not doing it alone. Unable to keep a secret, she reveals to her little brother, Josh, that an angel appeared and granted her three wished. This movie about angels will teach you that miracles really do happen if you believe in yourself...and angels!

This TV series about angels, "The Advocate," is inspired by true events. After a near death experience, a child protective investigator gains extraordinary Holy Spirit gifts, teaming up with detectives to protect and rescue those most vulnerable.

Good and bad, the dark and the light, the Jedi and the Sith. Pick your analogy, pick your metaphor for these things. Firstly as I jump into this, I'm going to say that when I talk about these things, I could be writing about this or sharing these insights as they come to me from wherever I may be, which sometimes can carry a great deal of ambient noise or some interesting experiences that pop up in the play of my podcast and what have you, so bear with me as these things might incur. Life happens as we're living life, right?

All good, but what I did want to talk about this concept of hero versus the living, the gray area and the balance we can find in between. Now, the hero and villain are present for me in a lot of different ways in my life as I imagine you'll see if you haven't already or ever really considered it for yourself as well.

Who do we consider suitors and who do we consider villains? That's what it is from a story telling perspective, acting and film and writing and this sort of thing. We have the great conflicts often in these pieces that are about hero and the villain, and the villain we don't like and the hero we do like and so on and so forth in the most literal sense. But I find it interesting that in the finest of storytelling, we have challenges with villains and disliking the villains in the best stories because there are elements of their stories that we empathize with and we can connect to. The best villains are the villains that we're like, "Man, these are not good people, but boy, they sure feel trapped, don't they?" I empathize with their struggle and their pain and their fighting through themselves. There's a way that you almost rationalize with the villain on some level. It flirts with that morality of how I could possibly like this person despite the fact that we're doing this thing. In my opinion those are some of the best, most interesting stories.

Even the darkest person becomes a hero in the circumstance of the story that we're witnessing or experiencing or hearing. I'm talking about that as it relates to film and television and fiction and things like this, but the reality is that mirrors our own life as well. In the moment, we hear stories of somebody who you never thought would be able to do this, this, and this show up, and they just have this moment of magic, of heroism that saves lives or changes circumstances or morphs into something that is exponentially larger than themselves or the existence that they were living or enjoying prior to that achievement. Same with the villain. The villain has the same tendencies or perhaps they were living in a certain way that is heroic. Maybe something terrible happens to them, which sends them down this dark path. Our champion and journey for them is to find their way back to the light, to transform themselves from the pain. Through the pain they are experiencing their world and their lives into what is possible.

We root for them in that regard. We empathize with the pain they feel, but that pain consumes them, and they project that over other people and so on and so forth. This hero and this villain dynamic, good and evil, the angel and the demon, interesting how we look at this and how it plays itself out at these poles in our lives on a daily basis.

I consider the philosophy that we are both. It depends who you ask. There's some people we would ask today about me would say I'm a villain for whatever experiences or behaviors we'd had in the past along my journey or who I stand to be in this moment in life or in business or in film or similar or more even, right? This picked scenario.

There's others that will see me as a hero, as their source of inspiration and as their source of insight and comfort and confidence. For my part, certainly I seek to hold myself in the regard and with the degree of morality and nobility of the latter. I feel that we all do. That is where we come from in our strengths, but sometimes the process of doing that makes us out to look like a villain. When is the villain actually a hero? When is the hero actually a villain?

Is the contrast of perspective to consider in awareness and in holistic observation of our lives and our circumstances, to be that personal in our lives and in business, and our ventures in management? It's really, really interesting to look at the world this way and to explore, at least for me it is, to explore these perspectives.

Case and point, I do consider myself a light worker. I'd be considered someone who consciously makes an attempt to bring a positive energy to the world on a regular basis. Sometimes that takes work to consciously remind ourselves that that is our intention, and really ritualize the process through meditation and otherwise to clear energy and stay in this positive state of vibration. Sometimes it's easy. Sometimes it's easier and lighter, and we just flow because that is our natural high vibrating state when we make these contributions, and the same as we seek in this regard. Interestingly though, coming from this place myself, in how I feel and think and see myself to be, and hope to be for people in the world, because it is a choice. Do I choose to be a villain to the world, or do I choose to be a supporter of others and an empowering force for others in the world? Surely the latter is something that makes me feel good, and I sleep well with the spirit of knowing and feeling I'm participating in such a way in my life.

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