Understanding of "Angel's Egg"

After watching it twice and adding some movie reviews, my thoughts are basically filled.

Story interpretation: (spoiler, please read after the movie)

The story can be considered to take place in another parallel world on Earth (other planets)

Both men and women are angels. You can tell from the color of their hair and the feathers that the heroine sheds. The male protagonist is the last angel sent, but he seems to have forgotten his mission, or his mission is religion (cross). God's purpose is to guide the development of the world, and he found that his guidance was unsuccessful, so he sent a new angelic heroine. (From the huge aircraft at the beginning and end of the film, it can be seen that Oshii Shou believes that God is a high-dimensional civilization).

Whether or not the male protagonist remembers that he is an angel (after all, he told the story of Noah's Ark that he remembers part of it), he is now confused, and he seems to have the same religious beliefs as humans.

The vibe of the whole city is depressing and reminds me of the Middle Ages. People at that time were breaking the old order and establishing a new order (combined with the middle ages to break polytheism and establish a monotheistic system). Human beings are oppressive, the environment is decaying, and the faith is broken (the church shows that fish was worshipped, and fishing seems to be persecuting fish, just like religious persecution at the time).

The female lead teaches the male lead to wait. She and Dan are both incarnations of hope. When God sent her, she did not tell her the truth of the world, and she also received part of the mission.

The long-shot male protagonist thinks that he has waited long enough and still does not see hope, and uses his religion and weapons (the Crusaders to the Islamic countries of different faiths) to forcefully try to see what hope is in the egg. What, but because he is not patient enough, hope has not hatched the bird that symbolizes the discovery of a new world, a new continent. He left disappointed.

Although the heroine died at the end of the film, she turned into more eggs, just like God replanted the seeds of hope. Both God and the heroine completed their tasks, and the heroine turned into a stone statue (an angel in history) and flew away.

The male protagonist and human beings are still unable to see the essence of the world because of their own limitations, they are confused, and cling to wrong beliefs. Not knowing that they were on the prow of Noah's Ark, they questioned the veracity of the old story. The male lead left in disappointment. They didn't know where they came from, where they were going, and where did the male lead go? The direction he was going was still on the ark, but he couldn't see it because of his limitations.

Film interpretation:

Rate the movie. The narrative rhythm of Oshii Mamoru is boring in the early stage. His film explanations are always unintuitive, and the way of expression is different from that of mainstream films, which will dissuade many audiences. Most of his films do not serve the audience. The problem is the least obvious. Yoshitaka Amano's paintings are both aesthetically pleasing and incomplete (for example, when he draws water, he does not draw waves, and his hair has no layers), which is perfect in "Vampire Hunter d". It was 1985, and it was still the evolutionary stage of the masters. But if you think about the movie carefully, at the beginning, our audience entered the world like a female angel with a dazed face to explore. Just like the limitations of the human vision that the film wants to express, it is only at the end of the film that we can understand what the world looks like. This corresponds to the theme Oshii Mamoru wanted to express, which is very clever. By the end of the film, when I watch it for the second time, I can see the wonderful world he wants to show us from the creator's point of view, which is also a wonderful feeling.

Oshii Mori once said: "I would rather lose hundreds of so-called 'fans', and I also hope to have more real fans who can read my works several times." I think the director always has the attitude of refusing others, but he puts his own little world in front of the audience, with expectations and hopes that the audience will explore the world he presents, which is actually very loving.