When I first saw EVA, my age was similar to that of Shinji, and some emotions could not be fully touched. Only by breaking out of the mentality of adolescence at that time and looking back at EVA and looking back at the context of myself at that time can we produce deeper emotions. Projection and resonance. Re-reading the "Preface" also understands that this is the true meaning of "your relationship with youth determines your relationship with the world". The whole film actually has a very obvious structure. The tearing, cutting and bombing of giant creatures in the three battles, the layer-by-layer operation of the giant fortress system, has become the externalization of the inner world of adolescents, and it is also the projection of Anno Hideaki's personal experience: sensitivity and depression, being Discipline to eruption; confusion and search; being stared at and hurt; doubt and inferiority, from escaping to facing responsibility; sexual awareness and shame; coexisting with loneliness, empathizing with others and then feeling trust. The young Anno Hideaki has an incomparably strong expressive power, including the collective subconscious of the Japanese nationals, as well as his personal obsession with sci-fi and monsters: fetish-style close-ups from the EVA dispatch, noisy broadcast instructions, various sound effects The amount of information brought by the crushing, after the battle, the daily scenes of static frames, the long-term cicadas and the small people under the panoramic view. Those who cut from the operation of the giant mechanical city to running in the green space belong to the consciousness of "coexistence with disasters" under the geographical structure of Japan. The second shock as collective trauma in the animation mirrors Japan's nuclear shadow. Thunder Angel has the transparency and reflection of glass, and is shaped into a huge and exquisite regular octahedron, which is a typical Big Dumb Object in science fiction concepts. After removing the outer armor of the first machine, the brain is exposed, and the wiring and artificial bones are connected.
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