More than ten years of
separation : no new century can be
broken
"After the second impact....the Earth's axis is deviated...so Japan has summer all year round." It's
been a long time, EVA.
For the first time, I just started elementary school. At that time, I was completely brainwashed by the Hero Five of Gundam W. The robot's angular and beautiful shape, gorgeous and dazzling fighting style and attack power were fantasized and almost deified. Technology, there is nothing that can't be done, there is no place that can't go, just sit in GUMDAN and you can fly high. The earth is nothing, and the universe is actually the habitat of all human beings - and the Hiro five-member team drove five "stylish" GUMDANs to implement the ideal of protection from the bottom of their hearts. The life-and-death cannon that destroyed the artificially controlled satellite that fell to the earth has already conquered my young heart. So after W, I can't remember whether the second grade or the third grade discovered EVA for the first time - when Evangelion began to broadcast on the local station, it can be said to be full of expectations.
However, the first episode of the TV version immediately disappointed the naive me. The too ordinary hairstyle with bangs and pot lids, the unbelievably introverted, cowardly boy who succumbed to his father's obscenity, almost made me puzzled as the male protagonist. In fact, now it seems that it is just the role of a fourteen-year-old boy who is no different from reality. It is so ordinary and realistic that it made me feel that the heroine of Gundam-style romance and heroism has an infinite upper hand in my heart. of. To put it simply, at the beginning, I didn't like Shinji Ikari and even disliked it. It was because I was moved by the romanticism of Gundam W in my childhood, and I couldn't like the more "realistic" EVA in comparison. Although there are Ling Bo Li who has a goddess breath and Asuka who has a strong aura, I don't remember whether it was ignored intentionally or unintentionally, or the sensitivity of the subject matter was not broadcast in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and I couldn't watch EVA. But in the third year of junior high school, when I had some thinking ability at the age of fifteen, and the desire to understand the plot of EVA and many mysteries, that was the "first time" to see EVA in the true sense.
It belongs to the fantasy of Anno Hideaki. The teenagers in the play are at the "eternal fourteen years old", which is said to be the most rebellious age of adolescence (including the meaning of sexual maturity). The gray stream of consciousness analyzed in the heart, the red body sprayed in the sky or the blood of the apostles and the outer ocean, the black mechanicalness, desolation, loneliness, loss of existence, a scene of a doomsday city - all belong to the third new Tokyo city. Apart from these, I can always feel the free image of the blue sky and white clouds, the short-lived breath of loneliness that belongs to summer, the sea breeze, and the joy of the occasional gathering of teenagers on campus. All this was further confirmed after watching "Broken": the original blue sky in my mind appeared in the animation. The old theatrical version of Air/Sincerely for you, the peerless scene described by many fans: only Shinji Ikari and Asuka are left watching the new world after the destruction. It is the feeling of desolation in the lonely century. I haven't watched it until now. The new theatrical versions of "Preface" and "Broken" are obviously clear: the picture quality is so fresh, there is still the blue sky and white clouds that are summer all year round, the episode announcement with black screen and big bold characters, the cruel and bloody struggle of real teeth and real teeth The pictures and voice actors are still those voices; but the ubiquitous heaviness, gloom and anxiety in the past, the feeling of enduring the explosion at all times has disappeared, the character depiction is no longer so stream of consciousness, and the former obscure lines of the characters are now replaced by "alternatives". Audience Notes". Even the name of EVA is divided into the previous "old century" and the current "new century". Ten years later, after the script was adapted, EVA seems to be no longer the EVA it used to be. No wonder some people commented that it was a "commercial work that cheated money", or that it was the growth of Anno Hideaki. "Broken" has the highlights and splendor of "Broken", but after the delusional feeling of depressing and desolation that was Hideaki Anno's original creative intention disappeared, I still liked and leaned towards the "old century" - which existed in 1995-1997. EVA.
After watching "Preface" and "Broken", I look forward to seeing "Q" and the last new theater soon, and enjoy it as a clearer understanding of the mystery of EVA. "Immersed in one's own dreams, escaping from reality", living in the current twenty-first century, all the changes in the external world are constantly flowing, but the inner feeling has not changed, once again looking at the scene of the barren doomsday city can be triggered .
"EOE is actually just to let the audience (perhaps including Anno himself) understand that when faced with happy dreams and cruel reality, don't be fooled by false and happy dreams, but should face up to the cruelty and cruelty of reality. Pain, and beyond this pain, and finally bravely accept, admit and adapt to the reality.”——From Baidu Encyclopedia, EVA business card.
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