I thought it was a mecha battle before watching it, but after watching a third of it, I found it to be a youth growth film with a unique aesthetic style. The mother who died early, the father who was absent, the sensitive and cowardly teenager, the lively and strong girl... all face the confusion of the meaning of existence under the burden of saving the world. As the plot progresses, these psychological problems also intensify. Teenagers constantly want to escape, while girls change from conceit to inferiority because of being surpassed and ignored by others.
But the adults who are supposed to provide them with spiritual counseling also have their own problems. The two elder sisters, Misato Katsuragi and Ritsuko Akagi, a father died to protect her, and a mother fell in love with the same person as her. Childhood problems seem to have been properly resolved over time, but in the face of love, the loneliness and doubts are revealed again. Even if they wanted to care about boys and girls, all they could do was touch their hands indifferently. Older politicians and those in power seem indifferent to their lives. Although, Ikari Shinji's mental problems can be said to come from his father, Ikari Gendo, who is always blue-faced, and he is too lazy to give a sign of concern and approval.
Those in power have bigger goals and never seem to hesitate. There may have been times of confusion and sincerity, but since the death of his wife, Ikari Gendo has also begun to be cold to the end, and resolutely decided to implement the human completion plan. Only with Ling Boli, his wife's replica, did he occasionally show some tenderness. For others, even his own son, Shinji Ikari, they are regarded as indispensable tools for the execution of the plan.
Just as the religious conspiracy of the politicians is about to be fully revealed, I came to the last two episodes, and the human completion plan began - only to find out that it was a mindfuck movie! Messy lines, chaotic pictures, repeated confessions, the product of the stream of consciousness that the production team gave up on themselves... I realized, "words start to lose their effect from here", when everyone stood on the earth and applauded the enlightenment of Shinji Ikari When I shed tears of dementia. People can't understand each other, people find existence value in other people, people would rather choose to close themselves... The point of view that everyone's life story is unsupportable has been repeated upside down, and the sentences describing such a mental state are long ago. It is about to lose its meaning in the constant repetition. The realization of the Human Completion Plan, which claims to make all lonely individuals one, is more like a zero-choice choice after being insane by these problems.
Humans were supposed to be an individual when they were born (the eighteenth apostle like the other apostles), but because of the fragility of the wall of the heart (AT force field), they became separate individuals, and each individual has a heart. Wall, so suffering from disability and loneliness. The human completion plan is for people to reintegrate into one and return to the tree of life. "EVA" is about this, in fact, "Naruto" is also about this. Shi Tiesheng said that people are thrown into the world "one by one", so everyone is broken and lonely. After leaving the Garden of Eden, we have clothes and walls, but we never give up our efforts to understand each other, and we can find heaven by relying on each other's open love. If there is a real compulsive union, the universal and fatalistic background of loneliness disappears, and love disappears with it.
But for "EVA", when Shinji Ikari finished his work and finally laughed, the subtitle that finally appeared was "All the children, congratulations." At this moment, its purpose seems to be fully revealed: the so-called completion plan is completed by human beings in the script. In fact, it is to help the protagonists and the audience as teenagers to complete their self-identity, to accept themselves after understanding their own defects, so as to be able to Likes and trusts others. So this is a teenage growth movie.
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