Death Flashbacks
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Angel Heart
Medinensis — 10 years ago(May 15, 2015 07:54 AM)
Am I missing something?
Watched AH last night (it'd been awhile) and noticed something that I would consider an error in the film.
At the end, when Harry is having flashbacks of his killing spree, it appears that we are to understand that each meeting he had with a victim ended in their death during that same meeting. He would murder them, but have no recollection.
Ok.
But for Evangeline's murder there is a problem: the detectives see her alive after the infamous bed scene the scene during which she was murdered.
Now standard damage control would be to argue that he went to bed with her again after the detectives left and then murdered her. But that is a bit of a cheat. The most obvious reason is that hers is the only murder shown simultaneously with her visit. It is shown in a few glancing frames during the love making and Harry is shown murdering her during that scene. There are other reasons given why we are to understand that that is when the murder took place, but that will do for now.
So I ask again, am I missing something?
I love the film and if this was a flub it doesn't take anything away from the film as far as I'm concerned.
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spookyrat1 — 10 years ago(December 13, 2015 03:25 AM)
I think we have to believe there were 2 bouts of love-making, because we see Epiphany at one stage having a bath and singing one of Johnny Favourite's songs. I know it can be confusing with all the intercutting and you do raise a good point, but I think the bath scene is supposed to represent the intermission, so to speak and the police were there for the first half of the show.
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Itsmedrooms2 — 9 years ago(November 27, 2016 12:56 AM)
Evangeline wasn't murdered by Harry. She was murdered by the devil's minion( the man in black) who is at the hotel when Harry runs back to presumably save Evangeline. We see Louis Cypher take Harry's gun from Margaret's apartment, so it wasn't Harry/Johnny.