Why did the animals die?
In constantine, the guy that found the spear of destiny jumps over a fence. The camera pans around and there is a field of animals. As he walks through the field along the path, the animals die.
Why did this happen?
Best Answer
I don't have my DVD with me, so I cannot check, but if I remember right, this was not addressed in the movie.
When that scene takes place, we only know that the thing (that we later learn is the Spear) is something (possibly a relic, given the type of the movie) that was wrapped in the Nazi flag and that possessed Manuel, immediately killing him but keeping him "alive", and setting him on some mission. So, I think that the movie wants to add an ominous feeling to this - at the moment unexplained - sequence of events.
We can easily argue that the Spear is not deadly in itself, but rather affected or manipulated by something or someone (as is later indirectly confirmed). Had it been deadly, neither Manuel nor his friend would get close to it. Instead, they'd just drop like the cattle you're asking about.
The Spear also didn't kill Constantine and Chas when they were in the same room with it, giving me further reason to consider the death of the cattle just a means of building the suspension, and not something deeper.
One could argue that it only killed animals, but - again - no explanations nor in-movie reasons for that are ever given.
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