Daily Dialogue — December 29, 2019

“I hate this place… I hate myself… and before I arrived, I didn’t even know what that feeling was.”

— Gabriel (2007), screenplay by Matt Hylton Todd & Shane Abbess, story by Matt Hylton Todd & Shane Abbess

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Angel.

Trivia: The film was mostly funded out of the filmmakers’ own pockets. Director Shane Abbess worked as a building laborer, a removalist, at a call center and as a dockyard truck driver simply to raise money for his film. Five weeks into shooting when it looked like the money was about to run out, he was prepared to return to his job as a removalist when his old boss gave him sufficient funds to complete the film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The movie tells the story of an archangel who fights to bring light back to purgatory — a place where darkness rules — and save the souls of the city’s inhabitants. Gabriel locates Uriel hiding in a rundown bus. He explains that the Archangels all assumed human form and became subject to human desires and feelings which weakened them.