Topic > Analysis of the Movie 'City Of Angels' - 724

The fourth characteristic is that “in trying to achieve their goals, the main characters face antagonists or a series of problems” (308). There were numerous issues between Maggie and Seth that both characters had to deal with. Maggie was facing relationship problems with her boyfriend named Jordan when she met Seth. Maggie had to deal with the death of a patient on her operating table and having to tell her family that their loved one wasn't strong enough to survive the surgery. Seth found himself loving a human just as he didn't know the meaning of hunger, pain, touch, or fear. The fifth characteristic is: “the emphasis is on the clear cause and effects of actions. What events happen and why they happen are clear and unambiguous” (308). A cause and effect demonstrated in the film was when Seth saw Maggie for the first time while she was having open heart surgery. Seth immediately fell in love with Maggie when he had to take the man away when he died. Seth was watching over one of Maggie's patients named Mr. Messinger. Later in the film, Seth and the audience discover that Mr. Messinger was once an angel until he gave it up to his wife Teresa. Long story short, Mr. Messinger gave Seth advice on how to become a human being to be with