I remember that although I watched a lot of anime when I was in elementary school, there were two of them that I particularly liked, one was "Space Knight", and the other was "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". When I was in junior high school, I saw "Evangelion" on TV intermittently. What left the deepest impression on me at first was that the male lead often looked at the ceiling, and then it took a long time to see it. When I was in college, I didn't know why I was particularly impressed with "Ring Tone", "The Story of the Boy and the Girl", and "The Last Weapon and the Girl". It seems that I liked those kinds of pictures when I saw the pictures, but these 3 animations were not until after I graduated. Just saw it all. After many years, I found out that the classic anime I like are all of the same type. Although "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Evangelion" and "The Man and the Woman" tell different types of stories, they are indeed from The same studio, which is also something I didn't know until long after watching these animes.
In the summer of the last year of graduation, I ordered "McDull's Story" and "Evangelion: You Are Not Alone" and "Evangelion: Really For You" at Bertelsmann. "The Story of McDull" was given away without opening. I spent an afternoon watching the remaining two EVAs carefully. This was the first time I watched the EVAs completely without any interference. I still remember when I watched it, I was completely dumbfounded. He stared at the last subtitle that appeared. The feeling at that time seemed to understand a little, but I didn't understand it. What I remember the most is the "adult kiss" Misato gave Shinji on the elevator.
I have always felt ashamed. Although I have liked EVA for many years, I have not watched the TV version in its entirety, but I have watched the entire movie version. As for the storyline and intricacies of it, I've always been half-clear. So this time, after I finished watching TV+OVA, I finally understood something.
What impressed me the most this time was the last two episodes of the TV version and the last shot of the OVA. Or in a way, the last shot of the OVA should be the last two episodes of the TV version. It's a lot smoother this way, and the last two episodes aren't so abrupt.
In the last scene of OVA, the whole world has disappeared, only Asuka and Shinji are left, Shinji wants to fake Asuka with his hands, and Asuka strokes Shinji's cheek with his hands. Shinji shed tears and let go of his hands, Asuka glanced at Shinji and said, "It's really unbearable." Many people thought the ending was abrupt and confusing. I did too at first, but think about it. In fact, what the official author wants to express is that although the whole world is dead, only Shinji and Asuka are left, but nothing has changed in his heart, and Shinji wants to strangle Asuka. In fact, there is such a scene in OVA. In the conversation in the room, Shinji longed for Asuka to save him, but Asuka ignored him, and as a result, Shinji wanted to strangle Asuka to death, but Shinji let go. . In fact, we can clearly find that Shinji's self-contradictory heart is that he desires to depend on others, but is afraid to contact others. Because of fear, they want to kill each other, and because they need to rely on them, they want to kill each other. In the last two episodes of the TV version, there were a lot of questions and answers, and finally Shinji finally understood and redeemed himself.
In fact, there are not many lines in EVA, but the basic export is a classic. Although the whole animation is relatively jerky and difficult to understand, this is also the charm of this animation. In itself, about people and groups of people, the individual of the human self is a subtle relationship that is difficult to explain. Therefore, the whole anime borrows a lot of metaphors from the Bible to make the whole reach a higher ideological height.
One of the interesting things in the film is that the drivers are 14-year-old boys and girls. Teenagers in this period are just a critical period for the transition from immaturity to psychological maturity. It also hints at the core of the film.
I hope that I will still gain something when I watch it next time, but it is estimated that it will take a long time~~ a long time later~~~
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