Sophomore year, revisiting EVA, heartache, deep thinking.
The story of EVA has three levels. On the one hand, it is the social psychology of children who have been injured due to family reasons since childhood.
The four people in the play all live in the hearts of others due to childhood trauma, hoping that others can recognize them and find their own value. They seek escape and recognition in their own way. Misato seeks the gentleness of a man, Asuka always wants to prove her strength because of being abandoned by her mother, Ling Bo Li wants to know her identity, and Shinji drives an EVA just to get his father's praise.
Face trauma rather than escape, dialogue rather than closure, self-affirmation rather than seeking confirmation from others. I am who I am, I think, I do. Maybe I, like Shinji, want to live in my own world, but that will not be the way back. Maybe many people, like Asuka, are trying to prove their strength, but that's just a kind of fragility. Maybe many women are like Miri, and the love in their eyes is just for shelter. Even like Ling Boli, she is at a loss to find herself. However, we will eventually grow, and we will eventually fight the storm.
Thinking on a philosophical level is fascinating. This is about existence, about freedom, about the nature of man. We are constantly looking for ourselves in the eyes of others, and we are always asking others: Who am I? What kind of person am I? We also always feel that we are not free, but absolute freedom does not exist in reality (in the last episode, you can enjoy freedom by adding a restraint to freedom). A person cannot be alone, and there is freedom. "You can't see yourself without anyone else" The way to find yourself is to see the difference between yourself and others, and you exist because of others. What is your real self? "It is born of a narrow worldview, a message modified to protect itself, a distorted truth."
All this is also a reflection on the future of mankind. EVA is a replica of the apostle Adam, and it can also be seen that humans seek themselves in the universe. The Human Completion Plan was born to make up for human vulnerability and fear. In the face of powerful alien life, the fragility and insignificance of human beings, the fear and escape of human beings, the closed humanity is not the opponent of intelligent extraterrestrial civilization. This is not only an understanding of the weakness of human nature, but also a challenge for mankind to go to the universe (it can be called "the era of the universe").
The combination of the EVA and the driver in the play, the EVA is also a part of the driver, the last episode said "to rely too much on the EVA, it will become a part of you, the real you will disappear without a trace." Our reliance on machines, our reliance on gigantic cities, we use these man-made objects to mask human fears and fragility.
The existence of human beings exists because of other beings in the universe. Without other intelligent beings, we would think that we are invincible, we will be arrogant and arrogant, but this arrogance is actually a lack of self-confidence in ourselves. Living at peace with him, believing that there is only a relationship between civilizations to destroy or be destroyed ("Dark Forest").
Believe in yourself, exist for yourself, and face the dark side in order to be a stronger self. This is "human completion".
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