Today I’m going to explain a French Drama Fantasy film called “Angel”. Spoilers ahead !
Louise is a beautiful young girl working as an
assistant to a magician. She falls in love with
his charm, and so does he with her beauty. But
tragedy comes when in one of their performances,
the magician depicts being invisible and never
returns. His disappearance causes Louise to fall
into a spiral of depression. For some reason, she
believes he will return to her soon because he has
the ability to turn invisible on command.
Her depression turns into hallucination and
delusion which eventually ends her up in a
mental asylum. Nine months after the magician’s
disappearance, Louise goes into labor. No one
knows she is pregnant so she has to give birth
on her own. The baby born that night is invisible.
His existence proves that Louise is not delusional
but she is too scared to tell the nurses.
She knows her son will turn into a subject of
experiments if people find out about his
existence, hence, she keeps him a secret.
The nurses come every day to give her food
and medicine but never find out about the
invisible kid living in the room.
Louise calls him angel which eventually
turns into his name. She takes great care
of him and raises him like any normal child.
We see her patting his back, feeding him, teaching
him to talk and eat. When he grows old enough,
she uses chalks and the wall to teach him
to read. Angel loves to play with Louise’s
old dress and shoes which is the only way he
can see half of himself in the mirror.
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Every night, Louise tells him about her childhood
home. She used to live in a cabin in the middle
of the woods owned by her father. On vacation,
they used to travel by train and go to a lake.
It is Louise’s favorite place in the world and
she hopes her son will be able to see it one day.
She also wants to teach him to swim in
the lake but the thought of him meeting
the outside world scares her to death.
On his birthdays, Louise lights up rolled pages
and puts them on top of two slices of bread to
mimic a cake. Angel doesn’t know any better,
hence, he never complains. As the years pass,
Angle grows up to be a smart ten-year-old
but doesn’t come to terms with his invisibility.
With growing age, his curiosity grows as well.
One evening, he gets on top of a chair and
looks outside the window. For the first time
in his life, he sees another human his age. A
little girl is with her parents outside her home.
She trips on a stair and is helped by her
mother. Angel returns to his mother in bed
and tells her about the girl. Louise is
terrified that her son is growing curious
about the outside world. She tells him he
is different from the rest of the world
which the normal people don’t like. Hence, he has
to be careful to never be noticed by anyone.
The comment makes a lasting impression on the
kid but his interest in the pretty neighbor
doesn’t die. He frequently watches her through
the window and realizes she always plays the
same two keys on the piano. He listens to it for
as long as he can, hoping to meet her someday.
One morning, Angel asks his mother what
it is like to see herself in the mirror.
Louise describes the feeling as seeing yourself
a little more than you see other people.
Louise always believed that her lover would
come to her and Angel one day. But after
years of waiting, she has fallen deep into
depression. She barely talks to Angel nowadays.
When she pulls away from him, he feels lonely
and spends days drawing on the wall. One day,
the pretty girl looks directly at him
from the garden in front of her house.
Angel feels nervous and runs to tell his
mother who turns away without saying a word.
Later, Louise is brought outside her room by the
nurses. Angel takes the opportunity to run outside
without being noticed. He walks on the grass, away
from the cold marbled floor for the first time in
his life. A few minutes later, he ends up in front
of the pretty girl who is playing on a swing.
She feels his presence and asks him to come
closer. A stunned Angel questions her if she
can see him and finds out she is blind. Her
sense of smell and touch is heightened which
is why she can feel his presence nearby.
Angel, who has never seen himself before,
feels like he exists for the first time. The girl
introduces herself as Madeleine and touches his
hand. They talk for a minute before Angel
gets nervous. Madeleine makes him promise
that he will come again before he runs away.
She has no friends because of her disability so
talking to someone her age is as delightful
for her as it is for Angel. He returns to
the room with the nurses and lays beside
his mother. By now, Louise has stopped
smiling altogether. Angel tells her he has
a girlfriend but she shows no reaction.
He goes to meet Madeleine again as soon as he
can. She touches his face and can see him clearly
in her imagination. Angel also tells her that he
watches her from the window and loves to hear her
play the piano. Madeleine laughs because she only
uses two keys and has never played a melody.
The two play hide and seek for hours even though
one of them is invisible and the other is blind.
Soon, the two become inseparable and Angel starts
spending most of his days with her. One day,
they take a step forward and kiss. Madeleine can
perfectly guess what part of her body Angel is
looking at because she can feel his gaze.
Angel couldn’t be happier in life but that
doesn’t last long. Madeleine reveals that
she is about to get eye surgery the next week
after which she will be able to see. She is
the most excited about finally getting to see
Angel but he doesn’t feel the same way.
They spend the next week together before
she waves at him from her house and leaves. That
night, Louise speaks for the first time in months
and invites Angel to sleep by her side. She
also asks him to go to the cabin in the woods
if something ever happens to her. When Angel wakes
up in the morning, she has already passed away.
The news is too much for the kid to take. He
watches his mother’s body for hours before the
nurses come and take her away. They also remove
all of her belongings and the writings from the
wall. The room is the only thing Angel ever knew
apart from Madeleine. It is gone and Madeleine
will hate him when she knows the truth.
So, without anything in his possession, he boards
a train and goes to the lake his mother always
talked about. He imagines Madeleine coming out
of the water which only makes him sadder. Then, he
boards another train to the cabin in the woods.
He breaks in and looks around before sleeping
on the sofa and declaring it his house. Weeks
turn into months, and months into
years. Angel is now a grown man,
evident from his raspy and manly voice.
He has only talked to himself for years but still
hopes he will get to see Madeleine someday. Then
finally, one day, she arrives at the cabin.
Angel feels like he is in a dream
and cannot stop looking at her.
He stands right in front of her but even with her
recovered eyes, Madeleine doesn’t see him.
For the next two days, she goes around the
nearest town and asks people about him. It
turns out she has been looking for him since
she returned from the hospital. Madeleine knew
about his mother but the asylum had no records
of his existence. Hence, she did more research
about Louise and found out about the cabin.
That day, she also visits Louise’s grave and
leaves a letter for Angel. It says that
she is back and asks him to come to her.
Angel continues following her and stays with
her at the house without her knowing.
Madeleine frequently feels his eyes on him
like she did years ago but she dismisses it
every single time. Having had enough, Angel
writes a letter back to her, saying that he
misses her as much as she misses him but can only
meet if she promises to keep her eyes closed.
They meet in the woods later that day and as
promised, Madeleine keeps her eyes closed.
They return home together and lay down by
each other’s side. Madeleine feels his face
and takes in his scent, trying to relive the
memories they shared. His scent has changed a
little but she can still recognize him.
The lovers are overwhelmed by the sudden
closeness after years of longing for each other.
In the following scene, Madeleine is blindfolded
and naked with Angel on the bed.
Angel asks her how she felt when she
first regained her vision. Madeleine describes it
as a strange experience. Before, she thought the
things in the room only existed when she touched
them. A bouncy ball would disappear from the face
of the earth when she threw it to the wall and
then reappear again when it touched her hand.
But when she gained her vision, she realized the
ball was always there. Similarly, she found out
that many things in her room exist simultaneously,
not just when she touches them.
The profound explanation makes Angel question
his existence when he is away from Madeleine.
For the next week, they live in paradise.
Madeleine continuously has a cloth over her
eyes but doesn’t mind it. They talk about
their childhood, and their teen years and
end up falling in love for the second time.
Then, Angel brings her to see the lake,
which has turned into his favorite place over the
years. Madeleine takes off the blindfold and is
mesmerized by the view. But the only thing
she really wants to see is her boyfriend’s
face. Angel kisses her on the neck from behind
and promises to reveal himself at night.
The night comes and he is in the bedroom with
a sheet over his head. Madeleine promises to
love him no matter how he looks. But when she
takes the sheet off, she retreats in shock.
Angel tells her the truth which is too much
for her to take. She breaks down crying,
making Angel feel like the ugliest person in the
world. He watches her curl up on the floor in
tears till the morning. When she falls asleep on
the ground, he puts a blanket over her. It wakes
Madeleine up from her sleep. She says she is ready
to keep her eyes closed for life if it means they
can be together. But Angel doesn’t want that. He
doesn’t say anything to her face but registers
that she has to be blind to actually love him.
Madeleine wakes up the next morning and looks for
Angel but doesn’t find him. Instead, she finds
a note that says he is going away from her life.
He promises to always love her
but asks her to stop loving him.
Madeleine sheds a single tear after reading it.
She packs her luggage and is ready to leave when
she feels something in her chest. It is almost
as if she can tell where Angel is at that moment.
After closing her eyes and searching for his
scent, she realizes he went to the lake.
In the following scene, Madeleine reaches
the deck and calls for him. She knows he
is nearby because of his scent but Angel
refuses to talk. Suddenly, a splash of water
is heard. Angel has accidentally fallen into
the lake but he doesn’t know how to swim.
Madeleine jumps behind him even though she
cannot even see him. After frantically searching
for a while, she sees bubbles underwater
and brings him to the shore. Angel gains
consciousness after a few rounds of CPR.
Madeleine declares that this is the end of
their misery and they will remain together
forever after this moment. She promises to
learn to see him with her eyes open like
she used to see him with them closed.
In the following montage, we see the couple
living a happy life together. They play,
fight, talk, and make love like any normal couple.
Sometimes, Madeleine puts makeup on Angel and they
laugh at the absurd result. Eventually, she
gets pregnant and gives birth to a visible
baby. The couple starts their own magic
show which becomes a hit. In the last scene,
we see them swimming together.
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