There are many controversies about EVA, and it is still the case today. Reading and watching this kind of thing is neither "with objective standards", nor is it combining "objective works" with "subjective audiences" like mud, but a purely subjective process of feeling. The so-called arguing is just that they are clarifying their own thinking. It is a real painful behavior to engage in who is right and who is wrong.
Although it involves many aspects such as the relationship between man and himself, the relationship between man and himself, and the relationship between man and God, its theme is not so complicated. It just wants to explore the question of "how people should live". But compared to the clarity of the subject, as mentioned above, the supervisor has brought in a lot of materials in many fields, but lacks the corresponding tailoring and construction capabilities, making the second half of this animation too complicated and vague. It's no wonder that so many people can't understand it, just because the supervisor himself didn't make it clear. Although the multi-angle description can make audiences from various angles feel, but the feeling is not deep, and they have to endure a lot of noise that is not in their thinking. Looking at it this way, it is true that EVA started an era, but the word "God made" is not appropriate.
The reason why I revisit EVA is because this animation has opened up some of my thinking; or maybe its appearance in my field of vision is catching up with the time when my thinking started, but its exposure to human weakness is indeed correct. The audience is helpful. There are many people who are afraid of thinking, and there is nothing wrong with this. Need to know that although thinking can make people suddenly enlightened, all mental problems are caused by chaotic thinking. The thinking in the later stage of this animation is more confusing, so it is not wrong for some people to say that EVA is a poisonous weed. When I re-watched this time, I broke a cold sweat on my back: because although the producer asked questions, but did not answer the questions at a high level, a little bit from various psychology, a little from various philosophies, and whoever comes into this completely This kind of thinking is going to get confused. Instead, it is better to think that you don’t understand.
I once saw an introduction to EVA (wiki):
Starting from the ruins after World War II, Japan has rapidly transformed from an agricultural country to an urbanized and industrialized country. This process took a century in the United Kingdom, 70 years in the United States and Western Europe, and less than 30 years in Japan (1945-1975). Although this great achievement has brought about economic prosperity, it has also brought about serious cultural dislocation, intergenerational conflict, and mental pressure. Ordinary Japanese have to undergo many cultural changes in a short period of time. Therefore, the main export films of the Japanese cultural industry in the 1950s and 1960s, the Godzilla series and the Kurosawa series, all accurately represented this cultural contradiction.
I did not strictly check the historical knowledge in it, but I believe that this feeling of deep rifts is something that most young people in mainland China have today, no matter what way he tries to cover up the scars given by this era. From such a perspective, the ambiguity and complexity of EVA can be explained by the state of "learning" in Japanese society. Compared to Japan, I certainly care more about China; compared to society, I certainly care more about myself and the real people around me. So, after three years of reading EVA carefully, I found an answer for myself.
Shinji, Asuka, Misato, and even Ritsuko, they both hate their father (mother) and yearn for their parents' approval (whether in the form of inferiority + avoidance or arrogance + rejection). In summary, they are afraid of being parents. abandon. In a rapidly changing society, it is often the experience of the previous generation that can no longer adapt to the new social rules. The generation gap arises from this, and this fear of losing life's coordinates is very common. In a relatively mature society, the situation is much better. The fear of being abandoned is a human instinct. It can be transferred to objects other than parents, from friends to society. People can't stand loneliness, but people are inherently disabled. The "human complementation" mentioned in the animation-casting the souls of all people into one body-is a bit of working towards omniscience and omnipotence, and it is precisely to eliminate the loneliness caused by incompleteness. This is why people are willing to devote themselves to totalitarianism.
In a rapidly changing society, there is another phenomenon. EVA clearly describes it and the psychological impact it produces. I think it is precisely because of the intimate fit with the audience’s experience that makes this film. The film has received so much praise. Not because it vomits on many profound issues. This phenomenon is "I have never seen this thing before, now you want me to sit on it and save the world?!" Brand-new predicament, brand-new means, if you don’t go up, either (your) world will be finished, or the burden will be thrown away. Give it to someone with a lower chance of success than you. And it's wave after wave. You can choose to quit, and as long as you can bear it, as long as you really think it doesn’t matter, you can choose not to come back. But I am afraid that few people have lost all value. OK, then they have to come back and choose to be a hero voluntarily. You can say that this is forced by the situation, not completely voluntary. Please, if you really insist on the so-called "completely voluntary", then this kind of thing simply does not exist.
This is another gift of man-the situation of free will. Under the dual established conditions of congenital disability and free will, perfection is insulated from every individual.
Even a hollow person like Ling Boli, like other characters in the end, had to call for the feeling of being accompanied. Because the world is full of cracks and suffering is unavoidable, if someone is to accompany you when you are in a difficult situation, even if it doesn't help in reality, it can be very comforting. Companionship is love. People need love as the support to survive the falling moments again and again, so as to usher in the realization of their wishes in the future—that is, happiness. But love is not only simple companionship, it goes deeper, but also understands and helps to assume, which has risen to a kind of responsibility. The reason why EVA looks miserable is that it describes a group of people who support each other very little. Both loving and accepting love require critical energy, and this energy can only be accumulated under the protection of love. So there must be an initiator. So there must be people who can let go of their own misery. So someone must work hard to do the work of self-reflection and redemption. These things are about "powerful", and Asuka's 14-year-old university graduates but has never been able to know where she is, has nothing to do with these two words. So among the three female characters, I just think Katsuragi is good. But this animation, which is famous for "Can't escape, can't escape, can't escape...", after a lot of words were confused in the later stage, it just ended with pulling back the atmosphere, just to escape the question that I raised. It's no wonder that the more and more it changed, the more disgusting the world, the ugliness of Zhishu was heinous.
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