Fallen Angels 2
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| German title | Fallen Angels 2 | ||
| Original title | Traps 2: The Journey | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2007 | ||
| length | 82 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | Kevin Kerslake | ||
| script | Sara B. Cooper | ||
| production | Patricia Allen, Peter J. Donaldson, Jay Sanders |
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| music | David C. Williams | ||
| camera | Jon Joffin | ||
| cut | Alan Cody | ||
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Fallen Angels 2 (Original title: Fallen 2: The Journey ) is an American fantasy film from 2007 by director Kevin Kerslake . The production is the first sequel to a film series that began in 2006 with Fallen Angels and continued in 2008 with Fallen Angels 3 . The film trilogy is based on a series of books by Thomas E. Sniegoski .
Plot overview
One year after the events of the first part, the " Nephilim " (half human and half angel) Aaron is still traveling through the country, accompanied by the fallen angel Camael, who protects him and gave his dog to whom Aaron can speak he speaks every language in the world. On his journey he redeems those fallen angels who cross his path. He is hunted by the mighty, angels who want to clear the earth of bastards (hybrid beings) like him.
action
The film begins in a motel in which Aaron redeems a fallen angel, after whose redemption another rune forms on his arm, on which numerous others are already standing. On the further journey they are attacked by two of the mighty (warrior angels who want to cleanse the earth of the children of the angels cast out of paradise, since these descend from fallen angels and therefore do not belong to the plan of the Creator) and Aaron destroys both, as Camael is hurt by them. The first time the angel struggles in him and he feels superior to everyone. Camael explains to him that he is equal to the angels, but the person in him makes him superior to them. However, he considers him, the Redeemer, too valuable to take the risk of a fight. Camael was wounded by angel fire in the fight, a wound that even Aaron cannot heal.
An ambulance is called in to an accident. The paramedic finds a young driver in a car who declares her colleague dead. She sends him to the defibrillator and when he leaves she says, “Nobody dies during my shift.” She is Ariel, a fallen angel and she uses her power to save lives. She heals the young woman with her supernatural powers. Camael seeks out this Ariel and she calls him "Executor" to her colleague. However, she has no hatred for him, although it was he who, as the former leader of the mighty, cut off her wings.
Aaron uses the time to look at a college that he would like to go to but cannot go because of his escape. There he meets the sexy Cloey, who puts him in a lecture by Dr. Lukas Grasic wants to take away about angels (if the two of them collide, a book about this falls down).
The fallen angel Azazel is chained to a stone in an underground prison. A person appears who offers him freedom after 5000 years of imprisonment if he helps to protect the Savior and supports him in fulfilling his destiny. Azazel, who knows the stranger for the time being, agrees and the stranger smashes the chains with which Azazel is chained to the ground on hands and feet with angel fire.
Aaron meets the fallen Ariel and is amazed because he doesn't feel the need to be redeemed with her. She explains to him that her time has not yet come and that she will be the last of the fallen angels that he will redeem. For the time being, she would like to continue repenting on earth. Aaron now also learns that she is the leader of an underground movement which, through Camael, passed him all the dead that he had redeemed in the last year.
Azazel now appears in a bar whose barmaid Gabriela he knows, because she is a fallen woman who has been hiding on earth for 5000 years. A rocker wants to take him off and offers him a game. Azazel spends a night with Gabriela against the rocker's motorcycle. With a single push in billiards, he uses his magic to sink all the balls in the correct order and win. A short fight ensues, which he easily wins.
Aaron is now plagued by nightmares in which he sees war and destruction. However, he followed the lecture with interest. Lucifer is led by Dr. Lukas Grasic is shown as a being wanted by the Creator. It would be the necessary opposite pole to the good, because without this opposite pole nobody would recognize the good. Lucifer is portrayed very humanly by him, as an angel who lives in constant struggle with himself. In his opinion, the rebellion of Lucifer was only the rebellion of the angels, who felt themselves set back by the creation of humans, because humans got an immortal soul, which the angels did not have. He describes Lucifer as sympathetic, because he, just like humans, is not perfect and now, after his defeat in his revolt against the Creator, he must be plagued by deep self-doubt. Dr. Lukas Grasic asks whether the rebellion was actually Lucifer's work or just a predetermined fate. However, he also notes that it may have been planned beforehand to make Lucifer the epitome of evil, but it was his own decision to follow this path as well.
After the lecture, Aaron briefly meets Dr. Grasic. He apologizes for his heckling in the lecture, Dr. But Grasic also pointed out that his view of Lucifer was unfamiliar. Dr. However, Grasic suddenly has no time and invites him to meet him in the library that evening.
Aaron now has deep doubts about his fate, the redemption of the fallen. He wonders whether someone who has fallen deserves to be redeemed at all and whether the earth doesn't need angels like Ariel who only help. Ariel says this is his decision alone.
In the evening he goes to a club with Cloey. They get closer to each other, but when he is harassed by other teenagers, he loses control and uses his superior powers very brutally. Cloey turns away in horror and Aaron is now only looking for Dr. Grasic. He finds him in the library and confronts him with a question about the Nephilim. This amazes Dr. Grasic, he hadn't expected that he would even know these beings and deal with them. Dr. Grasic when Aaron asks about the Savior Nephilim. He did not expect that Aaron would have any knowledge of these Nephilim at all, much less that he would even have knowledge of the prophecy regarding the Savior Nephilim. Dr. Grasic becomes cautious and is very unsettled and surprised by Aaron's knowledge and questions. Quite carefully and deliberately, Dr. Grasic now the extremely controversial prophecy, which heralds the coming of the Savior: The Savior can absolve everyone of every sin and send them to heaven, but there are also indications in the prophecy that the Savior serves a much darker purpose. Ultimately, one does not even know whether the Redeemer is a power of good or evil.
During the conversation, Aaron played with a necklace that Ariel had given him. Dr. Grasic is puzzled because he knows the symbol on the pendant of the chain. It is a rune of protection that can be used to hide from angels. Aaron is hiding from angels! This is what Dr. Grasic and thinks Aaron has seen through. He, Aaron, belongs, just like him, to the order, whose members know that there are indeed angels and that they walk among men. Aaron does not understand him, but follows him when he reveals that he could show him an angel.
He drives Aaron to his house. Here he leads Aaron into an attic room. There is a young woman lying in a bed. She is wearing a short white dress with spaghetti straps and she is being looked after by Dr. Grasic asked to show him her wings. She does so, still with her back turned to the two of them, showing her white wings. When she turns around, Aaron recognizes in her his childhood sweetheart Vilma, which he had to leave behind after part 1. He wants to see her, but cannot overcome a magical protective wall that also prevents her from escaping. He demands from Dr. Lukas Grasic to remove the runes that activate the protective wall. However, he pulls a gun and tells Aaron to leave his house. He would do anything to save the only living angel, his angel, from the dissection table on which, in his opinion, he would end up without his protection. Aaron disarms Dr. Lukas Grasic almost effortlessly. He uses his superhuman physical strength, which Dr. Meet and astonish Lukas Grasic completely unexpectedly, disarm him and knock him to the ground with ease. Dr. Lukas Grasic now also recognizes the runes on Aaron's arm (“These times!”) And begins to understand. “Who are you?” Is his fearful question. He doesn't even try to pick up the pistol lying next to him on the floor again. He is afraid of the sheer unbelievable physical strength of Aaron and he begins to suspect who Aaron is. Since he still refuses to remove the runes from the protective wall that prevent Aaron from approaching Wilma or from being in Dr. When Grasic's absence escapes, Aaron begins to lose control of himself. With the now ultimate demand for the removal of the runes ("Wipe these runes away!" - "I don't want. Who are you ?!" - "Do it! Now! Immediately !!!") his anger discharges. He blasts the roof of the house over him with angel fire and sends a huge beam of fire into the sky, which both Azazel and Camael and Ariel see. Dr. Lukas Grasic finally understands the truth and is shocked: “The Savior! It's you! ”He now follows his orders immediately and visibly humbly, but also fearfully. After removing the runes, Aaron takes Vilma in his arms, unfolds his almost black wings and flies away with her through the large hole in the roof.
However, this burst of energy has not only alarmed the fallen angels, the mighty ones have also recognized this beacon and rush to it. Camael gets to Aaron and Vilma. He persuades them to flee so that he alone can face the mighty. Aaron is reluctant to accept. Camael manages to keep five of the mighty in check until their leader Mazarin appears.
In the meantime, the mighty Nathaniel tries to kill the two Nephilim Aaron and Vilma, but is prevented from doing so by Azazel, who easily destroys Nathaniel. They flee together. Camael is now subject to the superior Mazarin, which is also due to his previous wounding and weakening.
Azazel now confesses to Aaron that he is the fallen angel par excellence, because he led Lucifer's angelic army. He lost and was chained for 5,000 years. Aaron doesn't trust him, but acknowledges that they must follow him for the time being. Azazel also reveals to Aaron that Camael would have sacrificed himself for him and must now be dead, because otherwise the result of a fight between the mighty and a fallen man could not end. On their escape, he overpowers a mugger and clearly enjoys his abuse. He robbed him of his car and his looted money. When Aaron criticizes this, he reveals himself to be Azazel: “I am not a guardian angel ... I am an angel of vengeance! ... The world needs both! "
He offers him to lead him to the "Light Bringer" because he knows everything and he made the prophecy of the Savior's appearance in the first place. Aaron decides to follow him.
Camael is in the power of the mighty. Mazarin is blind to any explanation and lets the mighty Sachael chop off his wings with angel fire. Dr. Lukas Grasic is now being visited by a member of his order. He makes serious accusations, but is enthusiastic about the information about the appearance of the Savior before he kills the professor. Grasic wanted to die because he had lost his angel, whom he adored, and with it the meaning of his life.
Meanwhile, Aaron is going to the mountains with Azazel and Vilma. Azazel asks Aaron about Christ in the face of an advertisement and is amused to learn that “the old man” has a child. He also explains to Aaron that Noah was his friend and that the Flood only came because God was trying to wipe bastards like Aaron and Vilma from the earth. Azazel: "The old man overreacted." According to his version, after the flood, Camael came with his mighty men to kill the surviving Nephilimes and to make an example of him.
At a rest stop, Azazel seduces the female waitress, has sex with her and robbed her on the side. For him women are only objects of pleasure. He also only calls Vilma “snail” or “sweetness”, which he only does not conquer because the Savior stands on her. Aaron forbids him to do similar things for the duration of the trip together.
They are now being persecuted, but the pursuer is just a fallen angel who asks Aaron to send him back to paradise. He is mortally wounded by angel fire, but accepts that Aaron does not want to redeem him because of his doubts about the correctness of his work of redemption. The fallen man makes it clear to Aaron that, as an angel, he has no immortal soul and will therefore soon disappear into nothingness. After Vilma's encouragement, Aaron redeems the dying man, much to Azazel's displeasure, because through this activity he has shown the mighty where he is. These also appear, but that's where the film ends and continues seamlessly in Part 3.
criticism
"Second part of a fantasy trilogy based on a book series by Thomas E. Sniegorski, which offers dignified target group entertainment."