As a firm supporter of God's work, let me talk about some of my knowledge and understanding of "Broken". As a "strategist control", and he is also a "personal plan" who admires the superior strategy, I will start with the character setting first:
Ikari Shinji
In the TV version, Shinji is not so much cowardly and autistic as a teenager who lacks a sense of existence. It is his lack of sense of existence and lack of self-examination in his lonely environment that makes him very negative and The extremely unstable mental state makes him sometimes avoid all kinds of stimuli from the outside world when dealing with others; sometimes he is obsessed with the desire to rely on others to prove his existence, and use it as his spiritual sustenance and comfort. . (For example, the desire to identify with his father Yuandu and the spiritual dependence of the apostle Zhu Xun after his affirmation.) It is these two extreme manifestations that make his character full of hesitation, contradiction, anxiety, anxiety, Doubts, difficulties, sometimes sensitive, sometimes negative, sometimes paranoid, sometimes cowardly, and without a sense of security. He said that the "betrayal of him" by others was nothing but a denial given to him by the reality after his wishful thinking. The psychological instability made him unable to face up to himself and others. It was this psychological immaturity, coupled with the complex of Anno. The "repeated torture" of the character made Shinji's character always in a vicious circle of "desire-belief-denial-doubt-longer-believe-re-denial-doubt" until the appearance of the apostle Nagisa Kaoru. As an apostle, he is the enemy of mankind, so he must be eliminated, but he was also the only spiritual comfort for Shinji at that time. When Shinji finally killed Nagisa Kaoru by his own No. 1 aircraft, he undoubtedly made his heart and the surrounding environment fragile. The chain of writing is completely broken, so with a state of isolation and helplessness, with doubts and confusion about self, the whole work has entered the unfinished chapters 25 and 26. (In fact, I think these two words are limited by many factors. The form is different from the influence, but the effect of completion is not bad.) It is in the so-called "completion" of these two episodes, after the character of Shinji, after constantly browsing and detecting his own image in the hearts of others, gradually He knows how to listen to the call from the bottom of his heart, and finally perceives a true sense of existence that does not depend on others, and finally completes the perception and understanding of himself with the "Human Completion Plan".
In "Broken", the psychological depiction of Shinji is much less than that of the TV version, and his mental journey and the development of the story are more direct and less tortuous than the TV version, which also makes the role of Shinji in recognition. The process of self-knowledge is much simpler and smoother. In fact, in "Preface", Shinji started to change himself when he fought against Thunder Angel, and in "Broken", at first glance, it seems that Shinji has suddenly become a lot more active in character setting, but in fact, Anno is right. There is still a lot of foreshadowing and foreshadowing in the grasp of this process. In "Broken", Anno did not push Shinji to a state of helplessness in the way of case analysis to save himself, but kept pushing Shinji after gathering the plot. The contact with the surrounding made him firmer in his self-shaping, and the communication with the blessing made him understand Misato better, and at the same time, he began to reflect on the estrangement between himself and his father; living together with Asuka made him see When it comes to everyone's different feelings about driving EVA; it is in this process of not escaping, but facing himself, that Shinji no longer blindly avoids the pain caused by driving EVA, and bravely controls the horror. The beast fights for his own happiness, and finally achieves the rescue of Zero and the "Road to God" of the first machine by his own will. This process is very similar to the German philosopher Nietzsche's prophecy setting for people from "carrying a camel" to "fighting a lion" and then to "the happiness of a baby".
Evaluation: Shinji, you finally believe in Chun-ge! Become a boy of pure man, go and create miracles!
In the TV version of Lingbo Zero
, if Anno's setting of Shinji's presence is still "missing", then Zero - this substitute born from Yuandu's obsession with his wife's love, has an extreme sense of presence. I am afraid there is nothing to explain the loss, just like Zero's classic line: Even if I disappear, there will be someone to replace me. "
If Shinji's sense of existence is just lacking, then zero's sense of self-existence is probably really "zero". It is the extreme lack of his own sense of existence that makes this character even get the honorable title of "Goddess of Three Noes", (and I personally guess that the runaway state at the beginning of the start of the zero machine is because of its lack of "existence", and it is dominated by the machine. Then, a state of loss of control occurred, and when it was activated for the second time, it achieved a self-existence maintenance by virtue of Yuandu's damaged glasses, and was saying that she was an existence maintained by "fetters", thus achieving the achievement. The stability of the synchronization rate. It should be noted that in the TV version, each body is pre-injected with soul, and this setting is weakened in "Broken".) The fate of zero in the TV version is very sad, Whether it is one-eye or two-eye or three-eye who become a god, Guan Rong took a lunch because he passed a message to Dr. Naoko on behalf of Yuandu at a young age. Although the two eyes persisted for a long time in the TV version, in her empty heart, there was only Yuandu's figure, and finally, she was gradually moved by Shinji, and finally, for his irreplaceable Commander Ikari, there was no Those who complain will destroy themselves in exchange for victory. The three eyes are even more innocent, not only to continue to be Yuandu's dolls, but also to feel sad for the fetters left by the second week. Until the theatrical version, she got rid of Yuandu by her own will, and chose to listen to Shinji's voice and lay out a future of his own for Shinji.
The goddess in "Broken" has indeed changed a lot. In the dimly lit kitchen, the stare holding a kitchen knife is really quite sick and charming! In fact, in "Preface", Ling Bo's smile to Shinji that he no longer relied on his impression of Yuandu started, it has already heralded zero's change, and in "Broken", Zero is not just trapped in his own share of nothing In the emptiness of existence, under the temptation of Shinji's cooking skills, he gradually discovered all kinds of joys in life, and tried to use his own hands to strive for happiness for her and everyone around her. Zero in "Broken" It is no longer a substitute for Ikari Yu who only has Yuandu in his heart. She began to have a place for others in her heart, and began to use her determination to influence everyone around her.
Comment: You were originally a "Three No Personnel". It's really hard to make up your words, but now you are not astonishing and dying endlessly.
Asuka
Asuka in the TV version is set as a girl with a dual personality. On one side is the genius he cobble together with honor and praise, and on the other is the loner surrounded by feelings of inferiority and denial. Compared with the previous two characters, his setting is more of an extreme denial of self-existence. She desperately pays attention to honor to eliminate her sense of denial, and her extreme arrogance is to balance her extreme arrogance. Inferiority. The clearer her goals became, the more her failures and her denial of herself became greater and terrifying. For this reason, she kept hinting at herself, and at the same time, she refused to be detected by others, from showing off her actual combat skills to Shinji when fighting against the fish angel, to longing for the attention of the elders to her, and the ambiguous night with Shinji. The truth is revealed, and kissing Shinji when bored is to get rid of the sense of loss caused by inferiority complex (only Shinji is so unsatisfactory!)
Asuka is like an acrobat walking on a tightrope with a balance stick, her split Personalities are divided into two sides. Once one side is stretched, in order to balance, the other side must sink deeper. Asuka is relying on this delicate sense of balance to maintain her image of life. (I always feel that compared to the "indifferent" goddess, Asuka's role is really heavy.)
In the TV version, from the music angel to fighting the egg angel in the magma, and even fighting against the bird angel to stay in NERV, she will never allow others to despise his existence and paralyze her own self through the attention of others. disgust. However, Shinji and Zero hit her the hardest. They are both qualified. One of the "dolls" in her opinion was deliberately cared for by the commander, while the other novice was able to make their own synchronization rate surprisingly good. These All her efforts have become meaningless, her delicate sense of balance is constantly eroded, the absolute strength of the force angel makes her strength seem so insignificant, and the spiritual attack of the bird angel makes her ego even more. The disgust was completely exposed. When rescuing the No. 0 machine eroded by the angel of the womb, its synchronization rate was "0", which finally completely destroyed her balance, and made her fall into the abyss of self-enclosure. Awakened by her mother's soul, she realized that the so-called "absolute realm" is the best proof of her own existence, the best proof that she is independent and different from everyone. So the awakened No. 2 machine was extremely dazzling and shining under the fire of destiny. Even after the mass production machine defeated her, she absolutely defended her sense of existence, which made her become a miracle after completing the miracle. Lilith in the new generation, an "absolute existence" different from Shinji.
In "Broken", the No. 2 machine that fell from the sky is still gorgeous and neatly wiped out the apostles, but the driver Asuka's character setting has changed a lot, and the original dual character has been reduced to a kind of arrogant appearance A lonely girl who lacks communication with others. Although her appearance is still so domineering, it is no longer the kind of deliberate display in the TV version, but more of her indifference to dealing with people in unfamiliar environments. After the changes in many settings of "Broken", the comparison and misunderstanding between Asuka, Shinji and Lingbo have been weakened. And the various performances in describing his life are closer to the discomfort when Shinji first arrived at Miri's house, such as being frightened by PENPEN, (but the actions he took after that were very different...) until he was in Santai. After the EVA body defeated the sky angel, Asuka began to face herself at the same time, her former sense of loneliness was gradually broken, and she tried to communicate with the people around her and sense each other's existence in the process. The night talk with Shinji eliminated her prejudice against Shinji, the "Second Generation of Power", and understood the original intention of Shinji driving the EVA. During the dispute with Zero in the elevator, when she saw Zero's full-handed OK Bong, she no longer regarded Zero as a "doll" favored by Commander Ikari, and understood that Ling Bo was trying to promote Shinji and his son. Reconciliation determination. It is under these little details that the gap between her misunderstandings and others gradually dissolves, and she is no longer just an EVA qualified person who relies on insertion plugs. While communicating with others, she also opened up her heart and used her actions to strive for happiness for herself and others. When she heard Zero's thanks in Misato's car, she, like Shinji, put her chin in her hand and faced the car window to truly taste the so-called happiness. And in the process of preparing to start, she confessed her heart to Miri, and it was after this gain and knowledge that she sighed that she was relieved under the happiness of inserting the plug: "So, It turns out that I can laugh too!" A cheerful and lively Asuka reappeared in our sight, no longer a disguise, but a real "bird" full of good expectations for life. Even if she replaced Touji's "cup" in "Broken", I personally believe that Asuka, whom Anno has worked so hard to reshape, will never be like this. I bet Asuka will do well in "Q".
Comments: Even if Asuka takes off that disguise, you are still the cutest Tsundere in the masterpiece!
Makiba
This newly added character has been "chasing in" all the time. In "Broken", Makiba separated many of the original Asuka's settings, and it feels like a character separated from the TV version of Asuka's dual character. In "Broken", she took over a lot of scenes of Le Asuka (such as her relationship with blessing, and the battle with Li Angel), and at the same time, she also relieved Asuka's heavy psychological burden in the TV version, and made the story before and after coherent. , coupled with the prevailing sickly temperament, it really makes this glasses girl very eye-catching. There is also a personal feeling that from her appearance, the third apostle and the fifth machine perished together, to the intention to destroy the second machine when she confronted the force angel, plus the relationship between blessing and her, I personally guess that she may be in "Broken". Plays the role of a plot corrector, ie, corrects the various out-of-sync flaws in the TV version. I believe that its excavation in "Q" will be very large.
Zhu Xun
in the TV version of Zhu Xun is an apostle with free will. While exercising the destiny of an apostle, he also observes the hearts of human beings by adhering to the characteristics of the previous bird angel and womb angel (from "Hallelujah"). ” to “Ode to Joy”, his position as an apostle seems to have changed indistinctly.) In the case of Asuka’s collapse, zero once again unfamiliar, and all the familiar things around him vanished, he fell into a hopeless spirit again. The fate of Shinji and the last messenger intersected. Nagisa Kaoru's sense of mission as an apostle and his pity for the fate of mankind made him more like a curious passerby who was urged by fate. This setting made him look very detachment. And under his free will, his fate as an apostle and his concern for Shinji were properly expressed. (But to be honest, if there is no foreshadowing of the previous plot, it is really unacceptable that one person can say so many nauseous words, and it also shows how "hungry and food" Shinji was tortured by the ruffian Anno at that time... ....) Because Nagisa Kaoru's appearance in the TV version is more to bring in the emotions of Shinji, and his appearance is only one episode, and the information is limited, so the personal evaluation will only stop there.
By the way, in "Broken", ... Zhu Xun, when you come up, you worship Yuandu as "father-in-law", and at the end, you put a token of love for Shinji. what, you! you! Your Japanese style of "proposing marriage" makes us onlookers feel so bad! ! !
Comment: Nagisa Kaoru, what kind of happiness will you give Shinji alone in "Q"...?
Finally, I want to talk about Yuandu. It turns out that Yuandu's setting is a "ghost" character. In short, it is a black-bellied uncle who even pushed his son into the fire pit in order to be able to reunite with his wife. But in "Broken" he changed too much! Especially after seeing Zero's "vision" of his wife Wei, he foolishly agreed to Zero's invitation. I just want to say: Yuandu..., have you been infected by Mr. Hasegawa, the uncle of waste wood... Silver sauce! ! !
The following is a little personal experience comparing the TV version:
The "Pure Road"
of the TV version In the TV version of "EVA", the ruffian focuses on depicting a "pure" independent state of individual spirituality, and through the EVA body Amplifying and deepening this sense of purity, there is not much overlap in the relationship between the characters, each of them is almost paranoid self-centered, (perhaps it is normal for blessing), too obsessed with themselves and right The surrounding environment is indifferent (Yuandu unscrupulously pursues his love for Yui, Misato's pursuit of his father's memory, Ritsuko and his mother Dr. Naoko's obsession with Yuandu, etc.), it is based on this "pure" setting , its use of the "plug-in" deserves our attention.
In EVA, it is the plug that shields the qualified person from the surrounding environment, and then places himself in an environment that is almost absolute self-isolation. Therefore, in this pure environment, the characters are freed from the various conditions and environments set by the story. He was pulled out and became Anno's "guinea pig" for psychological case analysis. In the TV version, whether it is the start-up test of the pilot swap, or the imaginary space called Dirac's Sea where the first machine falls, or the fusion of Shinji and the first machine with a synchronization rate of 400%, and the pair of bird angels. The mental attack of No. 2 machine, or the erosion of No. 0 machine by the womb angel, both reflect this setting, coupled with the inability to intervene in the observation and control of the command headquarters, that is, the so-called "inability to control" under external conditions , which highlights the near-absolute isolation of the qualified. In this kind of environment setting, the qualified person jumps out of the story line and only the personal psychological level analysis begins. The audience begins to peep into their hearts together with the characters in the work. It is in this self-questioning and self-answering similar to psychotherapy that shields the external interference, the various psychological activities of the characters begin to be induced and expressed independently. Come out, so they are in the environment set by Anno, conflict, doubt, anxiety, struggle, distress, extreme and even crazy. And this pathological analysis-style setting brings the audience into the character's deep understanding and reflection on himself.
Similarly, in terms of rendering this "pure" feeling, Anno uses the EVA body to use the insertion plug as a medium to achieve a certain ratio of neural connections with the qualified person (from the plot setting, if the synchronization rate is too high, Then it will lead to the fusion of the spirit of the qualified person and the EVA body, so the synchronization rate is regarded as the ideal state of driving under the condition that the synchronization rate is not higher than 50%, that is, the control led by the spirit of the qualified person, the synchronization If the rate is higher than 50%, I am afraid it will become an uncontrollable state dominated by the body. Of course, I am talking about the TV version), making the EVA body a manifestation of the independent mental state of the qualified person. With the power of the body, this kind of The eruption of self-will is magnified visually and sensually, and the bloody “runaway” state magnifies the absolute refraction of the qualified person’s spirit to the limit, and even transcends the surrounding environment, that is, it becomes the “noble and noble” described by Rousseau. barbarian". That is to say, the release of the independent mental state of the qualified person achieves the "hurricane" state of the EVA body. In the process, the rendering and contrast of elements such as religion and mystery will magnify this purified sense of purity infinitely. It is this organic combination that has achieved a very eye-catching view of the masterpiece. The plot of TV is not complete, but it is on the basis of this overall incoherence that the work's purely psychological depiction and deep excavation of each character's personality is more prominent and impressed the audience.
The "Road to Discovery" of "Broken"
Compared with the TV version, the plot in "Broken" has been greatly increased, decreased and changed. Personally, the biggest change is that in the portrayal of characters in the whole new theatrical version, Anno no longer uses "EVA". "The characters are driven to a desperate situation, and then they are extracted by specific means and then subjected to psychological analysis. Instead, by depicting the mutual perception and cognition generated by the inadvertent friction between the characters in life, the psychological completion is carried out little by little. In the TV version, the characters are always forcibly completed by Anno when there is no way to retreat. In "Broken", Anno began to use a more gentle way and grasp the details to complete the completion. And this method is no longer the pathological analysis of the psychological counseling style. Instead, everyone actively observes others with their own eyes and touches others with their words and deeds. Asuka felt her loneliness in the changes around her, and gradually eliminated her prejudices and barriers, and changed herself in her own way. From miso soup to bento, from the formulation of the
If what touched me in the TV version was the "pureness" extracted from nothingness and the mystery and profoundness it brings, then in "Broken", what makes me happy is how everyone treats others "discovery". Personally, I think that it is the purity and depth of the personal soul portrayed in the TV version that makes the "discovery" between them in "Broken" more intriguing. So in my opinion, the new theatrical version can be regarded as a very good "completion" of the previous TV version. No longer relying on the emptiness, huge and mysterious ceremony under the divine plan, but only the sublimation of each of our hearts, the ruffian's ability to control the script has indeed reached a new level.
In terms of story complex, I personally feel that after comparing "Preface", "Broken" has indeed entered the "summarization" stage as SEELE Speaker Kilo said at the end of "Preface", and the original story complex in the TV version has been highly regarded Compression merged. Nagisa Kaoru wakes up early; Sky Angel, Music Angel, and Horror Angel are compressed together; Kasumi Angel, Bird Angel and their erosion of Asuka's spirit are compressed; Power Angel, Womb Angel and their fusion with Zero are also compressed; the original The plot has been highly summarized, and it is indeed impossible to predict the subsequent development of the story on the basis of the original TV version. The new theatrical version has indeed "broken" the original story framework and began to develop in a new direction. So my unreliable topic was finally circled back by myself. (Shamelessly excited...!)
In a word: "Q", the one-year wait has begun again! Just let us fellow gods wait for the call of gods again, and stare at how the youngsters in gods use their own power to create a more brilliant miracle!
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