city of angel

Posted by Yuka as Hot Cities

I like movies with magic and love, especially the fairy stories.

When I saw the name of the movie at the first sight; I thought maybe it was a fairy story, some one about beautiful princess and handsome prince’s love story, or similar like that. In one word, it must be beautiful.         When I finished watching it, I found I was right. It is beautiful, moving, and touching, it’s full of magic, but none would feel that it is fabricated.

The kindhearted angel walking around the city New York doing everything he can to help people who need his help. The excellent women doctor is busy doing operations everyday to save her patients’ lives with her confidence and excellent medical skill.
But things don’t always go as we wish——

One day, when Maggie, the excellent women doctor was doing operation as usual, and the operation went on smooth and steady. But things changed when Maggie went out for a phone call. The patient lost his life, left sadness of his families. Seth, the angel, saw the whole process of the patient’s dying, and felt the guilty Maggie felt.

Seth try to help Maggie, but he don’t know how to. When he is trying to help with the lively and attractive woman, he find himself fell in love with her. He let Maggie see him, which is not allowed by the rules of his world. It is the power of love that make him do like that, it is romantic and touching. The result is they fall in love with each other.

I don’t understand the God who’d let us meet if we could never be together.
Maggie doesn’t know why they can’t be together forever, for she doesn’t know that Seth comes from another world, he is an angel. Is God that cruel? Maybe is, maybe not, I don’t know. But seeing from the movie, no matter how cruel the god is, men can earn their happiness all by themselves. And, the key is love, real love.
When they ask me what I liked the best, I’ll tell them “It was you”.

“It was you”, simple but just right. It’s enough to express his love. Love itself is simple, no need to make it complicated. All we have to do when we fall in love is speaking it out; telling the one you loved your real feeling, that’s enough.

I would rather have had one breath of her hair.
There is a proverb” loves me, love my dog”. People fell in love will know it better. But when we comes to the movie, things are different, Seth is an angel, people can’t see him, he don’t know what touch means, he don’t know how to love a young woman, he don’t know how to express his love, and he don’t know what the future will be like when he say it out. So, he chooses to love Maggie without saying it out, he chooses to see her at corners she don’t know and can’t see.

I have a feeling there’s something bigger out there, bigger than me and bigger than you.
We are strong; we even have the ability to change the world into another one. But there are things we can’t defeat or overcome. There is another proverb “Man proposes, God disposes”. When Maggie speak it out, we may notice that some subtle change in her attitude. Knowing that relived her uneasy heart. We should know that there are something bigger out there, bigger than me and bigger than you, we don’t need to feel guilty or upset when something bad that we have already done everything we can happened. Man proposes, God disposes.

It is really a beautiful film. Thanks to the great director, actor and actress, we have the chance to see it and feel it.