Ok... let's talk about this... is Emit Flesti the devil?? i think he is... and you may probably wondering "why is this guy saying all this"... and i'll tell you why.... he tempts Cassiel everytime... we see gambling envolved, we see alcoholism...Cassiel robs for alcohol... those are vices (the gambling and drinking)... those are sins... Emit Flesti makes Cassiel a sinner... that's the way i see it... i would like to know your opinion!
Emit Flesti backwards (stay with me now) is Time Itself.
He stops the wheel at the end - he is the personification of time.
In many cultural myths, the devil is associated with time as it is human beings mortality that makes us succeptable to temptation.
Cassiel carrys on his life outside of time which is why Emit is after him.
I realise that's all a bit scatty but i think it makes sense.
During the movie I didn't understand why was Emit Flesti able to talk to humans and angels alike? Why was he so strange? First I thought he was a devil or something like that, but at the end when he talks about the prophecy, then when he is riding the motorcycle with Cassiel and talks about time and finally when he tries to stop the giant wheel I found out he was related to time. Then when I was reading the credits, I read "Emit Flesti" and I remembered that somewhere in the movie they said that if you need a different name, you can spell your own backwards, and I realized Emit Flesti was TIME ITSELF. Thats why he could try to stop the wheel, why when he whistled at the tube station everybody dissapeared, and why when he's around him or the others are saying something related to time.
I found this great, and this is one of the reasons why I liked the movie so much.
I like what Emit said about time at the end (in the motorcycle scene), something like: time is short, but time is endless. We are the creators of time, the victims of time and the killers of time. Time is kind if you are kind, time is your master if you are its dog, time is your servant if you are its master, etc. I don't remember the exact words but this dialogue is really good.
And many more details that come up naturally in the story and build a really good one to watch many times. I'm definitely going to watch this movie again to enjoy the details.
First I thought that Emit Felsti was the angel of death but then Raphaela would have called him "Azrael" the name of the angel of death.
So I thought later that he was simply the death itself... or the "time itself" for the time knows our beginning and our end.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
isn't time also "death" in this indian mythology, the bhagavad gita?
I thought he might have been the Devil when I first saw him in the film, but as events progressed (especially toward the end of the movie) he seemed much more benign. He did help Cassiel to rescue the people on board the boat, he joined in the general hilarity when Cassiel went bungee-jumping, and Damiel and Marion seemed to be on good terms with him. I think that the reason he seems so unsympathetic at times is that he is angry with Cassiel for having broken the rules-- he is trying to send him away again, and unfortunately the only way he can do that is by getting him killed. I think he's inherently good (in the sense that light and other natural forces are), but Time doesn't always do what we want...
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