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I have died a long time ago
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1997 - End of Evangelion
There’s plenty of stellar work I’ve seen and enjoyed but that for whatever reason just doesn’t make its way into my heart in the same way a more flawed title might. Evangelion the TV series is one such example (another would be Cowboy Bebop). However End of Evangelion is a different story… which even I find strange considering it’s a, you know, direct continuation of the TV series. Yet I also feel EoE has its own very unique feel and in any case, it’s the highlight of the Eva canon for me.
This movie is one of the rawest things I’ve ever seen. It’s extremely cathartic in the way it is completely unafraid of not just undoing its characters but its entire world, and watching everything come to pieces is effecting without being schmaltzy thanks to a stark lack of sentimentality from the narrative. Yet it’s not that EoE doesn’t care about its character (as I’ve seen some people claim)… just the opposite. If you love a character you need to strive to be true to them, and for the cast of Eva the brutal deconstruction of EoE is what all their development has been leading up to. That’s why I feel I’m only watching lookalikes in the Rebuild movies, and while revisiting things is fun, nothing will ever change that this was the END of Evangelion; there’s nowhere further to go thematically than those last few beautiful shots on that apocalyptic shore.
While the Komm Susser Todd breakdown scene is fantastic, it’s the triumphant breakthrough sequence (accompanied by this track) that defines the film for me.
So where is my dream?
It is a continuation of your reality.
But where is my reality?
It is at the end of your dream. -
happy birthday Leelah Alcorn
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