Where to find fallen angels

Wong Chi-ming, a cold-blooded Hong-Kong-based assassin, has decided that he wants out. One last job stands in the way of a new life; however, Wong is unaware that his female partner-in-crime is utterly infatuated with him.

Then, Wong has a late-night encounter with seductive Blondie in a fast-food restaurant, only to spark his obsessed partner's jealousy. Elsewhere in the city, mute Ho Chi-mo, who has recently escaped from prison, uses unorthodox ways to eke out an existence.

During one of his nightly escapades, Ho crosses paths with Charlie, who enlists his help to find her ex-boyfriend's new lover. But, can there be redemption for the fallen angels? Comedy Crime Drama Romance. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia The character He Zhiwu, who is mute but able to communicate with the audience through narration, tells us he became mute after eating a tin of pineapple with a past expiration date. A character in the earlier Kar-Wai Wong film, Chung Hing sam lam , is obsessed with the expiration dates on tins of pineapple.

In addition, they are both named He Zhiwu though the character in Chung Hing sam lam is a cop, and the character in this film is a former criminal and both are played by the actor Takeshi Kaneshiro. Also his cop number and prisoner number are the same. Connections Edited into A Moment in Time User reviews 95 Review.

Top review. One of my favorites. Absolutely brilliant. When I first saw Chung King Express, it quickly became one of my favorite movies. It still is, but Fallen Angels is even better.

It encompasses so much. There is such a potent mix of action, drama, humor, love, music etc. Since I've seen it four times now and the effect hasn't been diminished one iota, I'm convinced that this one oughta go down in the record books. Take Asbeel. He's the one who gave the evilest of counsel to the "holy sons of God," and introduced them to the wonders — and basest evils — that came with hooking up with women.

Kasdeja was the one who brought mankind knowledge about spirits and demons, and who showed them "the smitings of the embryo in the womb" and "the smitings which befall through the noontide heat. The creation of a race of giants half-angels, half-human was said to have been the work of one angel in particular: the leader of the fallen, Shernihaza via the Gnostic Society Library. Other sources cite variations of the name, like Samjaza, but he was the one that led to the ultimate imprisonment of the fallen and the end of the world with the Flood.

The Book of Giants tells the story of some of his children — like Ohya and Hahya — but sadly, much of the manuscript has been lost. Perhaps the strangest of all was Penemue, the fallen angel credited with giving mankind something that led to all kinds of evil: the written language. With writing came the knowledge of destruction, and writing was supposedly responsible for widespread death and descent into darkness. There's one fallen angel in particular that warrants talking about on his own, and that's Gadreel.

According to the Book of Enoch , Gadreel was responsible for a lot of trouble on his own and even though most might not recognize his name, they're familiar with his work. He's the one who's credited with enticing Eve with the forbidden fruit and leading otherwise unsuspecting, holy humans down the path of sin in the first place.

He's also the one who gave mankind "all the weapons of death," along with shields and armor, and he first showed people how to kill each other. That's completely different than the picture many have about just what went down in the Garden of Eden, an act of temptation that's usually credited to Satan in the guise of a snake.

But according to the Biblical Archaeology Society , that absolutely wasn't on anyone's mind when it was first written, mostly because at the time there was no concept of the devil as we think of him today.

Personification of the snake started with Enoch and Gadreel, but it took a few centuries before the fallen angel morphed into one much more well-known. Quick, describe a fallen angel.

There are probably some scowly faces, bat-like wings, maybe even some horns or cloven hooves. But National Geographic says it wasn't always like that.

In early Christian art, fallen angels looked pretty much the same as their holier counterparts. One of the earliest representations of the idea that there were angels and fallen angels opposing each other in an otherworldly battle is featured in a mosaic above in the Basilica of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy.

Jesus is in the middle, and on one side are an angel in red with some sheep. The sheep are the faithful, and red was originally used to depict the holy kingdom. It didn't become associated with brimstone and hellfire until later. On the other side is a figure thought to be Lucifer or Satan, but he doesn't look very Satanic. He stands next to goats instead of sheep, and he's wearing blue, which was the color of the damned. The mosaic also suggests fallen angels kept their iconic halos, which were a symbol of power, not holiness.

According to the British Library , this image of fallen angels started to morph into something much more grotesque in the Middle Ages , and they were designed to be an evil interpretation of a traditionally angelic form.

Still, fallen angels retained the ability to disguise their true form, and that's extremely creepy. If fallen angels started out looking like, well, angels, why do we think of them as horrible, twisted, demonic creatures? But it's more complicated than that. Milton — who was writing in the 17th century — tapped into what was essentially a pop culture depiction of a fallen angel who wasn't described in the Bible at all.

Throughout the Middle Ages , a strange thing started to happen. Creatures from ancient Babylonian texts — called Lilitu — started to take on a new life as these winged seductresses became associated with Adam's first wife, Lilith. At the same time, parallels were drawn between Satan and the ancient Canaanite deity Beelzebub, and the ancient Roman half-goat, half-man god of nature, Pan.

Then, in the 14th century, Dante described Satan as lording over the deepest depths of hell, and gave him his bat wings. Milton hopped on board a bit later — when Satan had been transformed from a passive adversary into an active evil — and wrote the descriptions of the fallen angels that we now think of today, existing in "Adamantine Chains and penal Fire.

The existence of fallen angels has presented theologians with some serious problems; namely, how could they even exist?

Since God created everything, that also meant God had created something evil or with the capacity to be evil, and that just wasn't going to fly with most Christian scholars.

The implications of that were terrifying, so there had to be another explanation. Until the 12th century, "pride" was the typical answer as to why fallen angels fell. But that meant God would have had to create something with a crippling, all-powerful amount of pride, and that didn't fly. So scholars came up with the idea that angels had been created with a natural love that allowed them to love God, themselves, and each other.

Part of that love was involuntary, and another part was voluntary. That voluntary love was further divided into the idea of friendship and the idea that some love exists because it makes someone happy.

It was further argued that angels' love of God was the involuntary kind, and all was fine. Until, that is, one angel realized that he loved God because God made him powerful, and that made it voluntary. Once that angel — Lucifer — realized how nice it was to love and be loved for selfish pleasure instead of simply for love's sake, well, that's when all the problems started.

The idea that Lucifer kicked off the fall of the angels because he started experiencing love for a selfish reason is all well and good, and it kind of makes sense. It's another side to the pride coin, but a twisted, dark, selfish love That may have made it possible for that Lucifer to fall, but what about the other angels that went with him?

That presented another theological problem because other angels just weren't on the same level as Lucifer, God's most beautiful creation.

Scholars thought it was a little unbelievable that lesser angels could possibly love in the same way, so what's up with that? The explanation is actually pretty heartbreaking. The theory developed by thinkers of the Middle Ages says those angels fell not because they hated God but because they loved Lucifer. God was largely an absent, distant figure, after all, and Lucifer was their friend. Rather than condemning themselves to struggle for the acceptance of an unreachable father, perhaps they followed their brother into exile.

Religion impacts the material, human world in strange ways, and one of those ways, says scholars from the Mirabilia Journal , is that the idea of fallen angels impacted just how homophobic the world was for a long time. Scholars have long debated about whether fallen angels and demons are capable of love, and some described it not as a love like most know it, but as a desire for other creatures as a sort of stepping stone in the creation of their own evil ends.

Since Christian writers as far back as Paul warn women of attracting the lusty gazes of fallen angels, it's safe to say they believed there was something going on there. But it's not so much love as it is lust, and the male demons and fallen angels seem to only have these affections for women.

Early scholars declared that since not even fallen angels would lust after their own sex, there was something very fundamentally wrong with humans who did that. The role of fallen angels is to tempt in the most horrible and basest of ways, and even they wouldn't tempt other men.

Cue centuries of persecution. If you think about it — really, really think about it — there's nothing in our contemporary version of things that suggests there's really any kind of punishment for the fallen angels that joined Lucifer from his descent from the heavens.

Sure, there's a hell, but they're not exactly at the mercy of all the demons there Not quite. According to the Jewish Virtual Library , the seven archangels counted the punishing of the fallen angels among their heavenly duties. Each one of the archangels was in charge of particular facets of the otherworldly life: Jeremiel, for example, keeps watch over the souls in the underworld, while Michael protects Israel, Gabriel is the overseer of Paradise, and Uriel leads the host.

They're the ones with direct access to God, and they're also in charge of punishing the fallen. Punish how? Take Azazel, who was the one who taught mankind how to make weapons. According to the Watkins Dictionary of Angels , he was punished by Raphael, who put him in chains, threw him in a pit full of sharp rocks in the middle of the desert, and brought the darkness down on him while he waited for his condemnation after the final judgment.

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