This is a very difficult animated film from 1985, directed by Mamoru Oshii, whose name I believe everyone is familiar with, the hat likes the "Wolf" written by him very much, (everyone has their own preferences, I Knowing you guys prefer shelling, don't use this to spray).
I saw a discussion about it on the Internet before I saw it, and it seems that everyone seems to understand it. A strange and strange story, the atmosphere of the picture is mysterious and depressing, there are few colors, and there are only a few lines of dialogue. So what exactly does it say?
Some people say it is about reason and emotion. The man who bears the cross is reason, while the girl is emotion and faith. Yes, a man's reason can't let him understand the girl's obsession with an unknown egg, and the girl's faith allows her to finally obtain the so-called salvation, bringing more faith to mankind.
Or maybe it's about hope and disappointment. The girl represents the expectation of life in a lifeless background. She puts the eggs in her clothes like a pregnant woman, and she nurtures hope in the image of a mother. A man wants to see hope, but he who is eager to prove it just destroys that hope. When hope dies, more hope is planted, because a man already has a desire for this hope.
The most direct view should be about religion. One eye in the sky looks at all this from a high place. It is the real perspective of God. The man may be Noah, or it may be Jesus. Because I was on the boat for too long, I forgot who I was, and the bird that was looking for land never came back, but the girl said that the bird existed, and pointed to the fossil on the wall, but the fossil was a man with wings, it was an angel .
This film is called Angel's Egg. The bird may be an angel, and the girl is also an angel. He is responsible for helping men see clearly and find their way. The eyes of God looked at this man's confusion in the sky. He couldn't wait for the egg to ripen and eagerly wanted to know the result, but in the end it was all empty. Humans are always chasing some inexplicable things, and gradually lose themselves. You are already in the middle of the sea, what fish are you looking for?
It can also be about technology and warfare. Human beings have a very high level of technology, they are looking for every reason to prove their strength, and they continue to provoke wars. The reason for this war may be just a group of big fish that do not exist, and they broke the window and put out the fire on the way of fishing. The lights ruined the original beauty. The fact is that it is impossible for human beings to be content. Even if a fish is caught, there will be another bird. The expansion will never end. This may be the reason why Noah has never been able to find land or birds. Humans always repeat some Stupid mistake, over and over, to give this flood no reason to recede.
It can also be a critique of humans blinding themselves. Girls can hear the voice of life in the egg and see beauty in the bottle. And human beings are like a pile of sculptures, they only know how to catch the shadow of fish, what beauty, life, has been forgotten. And when the man saw the girl in the window from the opposite side, he saw the stained glass, the girl let him open his eyes, and truly saw the possibility of life.
Here's the beauty of art cinema, you can interpret it any way you want, and there are no wrong answers.
Some people say that this movie has no story, it is not good-looking, and it is incomprehensible.
It actually has a story, the most superficial. The story of a girl trying to protect an egg that was smashed by a man. This is also a story.
My opinion on film, especially art films that feel obscure. It's that you don't need to be obsessed with what the director wants to say and what each shot represents. That kind of thing is only done by someone like me who has to write a movie review. Because of the knowledge structure, what I see is not the film itself but something outside the camera. So I'm not really an audience member.
But you are, so for a movie, all you have to do is to have your own perception.
If we are lucky, we will sigh when we see some good works: "I don't understand it, but I like it." Or, "It's really good, but I don't know how good it is."
If it was my movie, I would say, you got it right. You don't need to have deep insights, and you don't need to cut the film with a paring knife to analyze it. As long as you get that feeling, that feeling that only you can get, then this movie will already have meaning for you. Why bother to pursue and cling to that bird, what kind of bird is it?
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