Azazel's Fallen: Summary

Fallen is a thought-provoking -person narrative film that begins and ends with the voice of the film’s narrator and protagonist, Azazel. The movie, which is based on his personal story, opens with an intriguing self-introduction that snares the audience’s attention from the outset: “I want to tell you about the time I almost died.” As the movie proceeds, Azazel reveals that he is responsible for killings, as well as the false indictment and subsequent suicide of a detective named John Hobbes. Azazel himself is described as an “evil spirit of the wilderness.” Where Genesis 1 and John 1 narrate all thigs to have been created by God, Genesis 3:15 explicitly mentions an enmity between humans and the serpent. (Revelation 20:2 also mentions this snake.) Dr. Stephen Ray argues “God is the causal effect of everything” and that “if God didn’t create Azazel, there would be no evil.” This paper will reflect on some of the various perspectives of the powers of the evil spirts and explore to what
By “mistakes” I mean mistakes made by humans to challenge the evil spirits that they can fight against them on their own. It is obvious that a war between humans and demonic forces cannot happen with nuclear weapons, guns or grenades, but with a rebuke that can be commanded in the name of Jesus Christ. Mark 5: 8 mentions Jesus rebuking the “Legion.” The movie reveals that Azazel uses human bodies to “have fun” and the “time” is on its side because humans have not resisted to the temptations of the evil. It makes me wonder if circumstances might have been different had Hobbes not fled from the police. It appears that Hobbes had become noticeable to Azazel and had invited a war against him and Azazel, for Azazel states “Sometimes you can feel the moment coming and that’s the