Sir may have to say sorry first.
The content of today's head chart, not all poisoned rice will be interested.
It may only face a certain group of people.
Some of them are young, but when they get together, they love to talk about people and the universe, life and death...
Some are married and have children, but they tinker with plastic models in the circle of friends every day, focusing like a child.
And also.
They all embrace the same unique purple in their hearts.
The code can't be covered.
yes.
God's curtain fell.
But its aftershocks in the hearts of many people are far from stopping.
New Evangelion Theater Edition: The End
Singh Evangelion: │▌
After a long delay, "New Evangelion Theater Edition: The End" finally released on March 8 of the new year.
As of now.
It exceeded the box office of 10 billion yen, becoming the 11th highest grossing film in Japanese history.
An animated sequel with a threshold, the results are very good, especially under the epidemic, true love fans are "fully armed" to the theater two brush three brushes.
After half a year, "The End" has also been dubbed in 11 languages and 30 subtitles, launched on Amazon's own streaming media platform.
Failed to catch up with the premiere of EVA fans, this is a rush to tell.
The Douban score directly soared to 9.2.
The score is indeed high, but turning over the comments, a lot of it is this:
I believe that fans who love "EVA" again do not agree in their hearts that "can't understand" is the best conclusion of this series.
Indeed, EVA is an outlier among the widely out-of-the-box Japanese anime.
It is neither extremely bloody nor extremely warm.
More impressions focused on:
Lots of psychological monologues, dark themes, various high-concept worldviews and weird deaths...
Even if there are two versions of the ending, it has never been able to satisfy all fans.
△ After the broadcast of the old version of the ending, there was a post of "Kill Hideaki Anno"
"EVA" once went to the altar because of these higher than reality "unconscious", and now it has finally "returned to the human world".
Sir doesn't think the all kinds of questioning and chaos that once EVA was meaningless.
These are part of growing up.
Sir prefers this version of the ending.
It certainly did not exceed our expectations.
But inside and outside the play, let Sir believe
This is the greatest honesty that a creator exposes in his work after facing the pain truthfully.
The harder you've ever grown, the more you'll understand the endgame of EVA.
01.
The opening chapter is unconventional.
What is the most unique gene of EVA?
All kinds of mysterious and mysterious concept bombing, more cool fight scenes?
Yes.
What you want, it doesn't give you anything first.
Can you believe this is EVA
In the farmland, rice is planted;
Between the villages, feed the horses and chop wood.
Old classmates met, talked about marriage happiness, went to work with a baby...
This warmth is obviously Miyazaki Hayao!
What happened?
When the last "Q" was released in 2012, it dug a huge pit.
The protagonist Shinji unleashes a third shock out of control, causing widespread humanity to die, with only a small number of survivors surviving on Earth, returning to the countryside and trying to live a peaceful life.
At the beginning of "The End", it tries to explain the memory gap of these 14 years.
This confession, as always, hides a lot of information.
For example, Asuka.
Although it is not explicit, various details show that she has a more intimate bond with her old classmate Kensuke.
Shinji's former position was actually given up to someone else.
At the same time, it is also implied that Asuka is no longer human at this time.
Hints such as the inability to sleep and the inability to eat confirm that she was infected by the apostles in her previous work, Broken.
What about the protagonist, Shinji?
The death of Kaoru Tomotsuru, and his own faults that led to a human catastrophe, double whammy, and Shinji completely became autistic.
He didn't eat or drink, curled up, and drank and cried in the middle of the night.
How to cheer him up is the task of the opening 50 minutes of "The End".
Asuka's reprimand, Kensuke's kindness, and Haruji's non-interference, every important person around them, in their own way, explained this old friend.
The most meaningful thing is that Ayabori has gained a second life.
Consciousness is almost blank.
Like a child, re-understand the various habits of human beings:
- What is "Good Morning"?
- Words of wishing each other a good day
- What is "Good Night"?
- It is to let everyone sleep in peace
- What is "goodbye"?
- It is a word spoken when you want to see each other again
This is Ayapoli's new understanding: what is human beings.
It is also Hideaki Anno who is looking back at "the meaning of life"
Putting aside the cruel war and the turmoil of the desperate situation, human beings can still generate faith in various "superfluous ritual senses" and use "useless use" to fight against inner emptiness.
Ayapoli's awakening finally awakens Shinji.
She tried her best to share the beauty of being alive with Shinji, telling him that the world was worth it until the last moment of her life.
As a replicant, her life and death are predetermined.
Ironically.
When she first began to learn to love the world, the world ended her life.
Shinji didn't succeed in saving Ayapolis, and now the new substitute is dying in front of him like a joke.
Ayapoli's second death.
The red-eyed Shinji, who was crying, no longer evaded, decided to go to the front line again with Asuka.
Abrupt shift?
No.
Think back to the beginning of the dream.
Shinji is willing to take the first plane and take responsibility, isn't it just when he sees Ayabori who is covered in scales?
Because of her injury, Shinji took the first step.
Because of her departure, Shinji took the last step.
02.
At the beginning of the story is the reorganization of Shinji.
The other end is the orderly progress of the human completion plan.
"The End" is the ending of another version after the TV version in 1995 and the theatrical version of "True Heart for You" in 1997.
Although the versions vary, the main story is the same human completion plan.
With the help of God's power, we will return human beings to the source of life, unify all things, and complete the broken soul of human beings.
The story of "The End" is the final step in the implementation of this plan.
Compared with the old version, the new version of the human completion plan is much more complicated to set up.
In True Heart for You, we only know that the launch condition is that the Adam embryo contacts Lilith, with the help of the first machine and The Gun of Longinus.
But in The End, more parts are needed to complete the plan, the Key of Nebuchadnezzar, The Thirteenth Machine, the Gun of Cassius, the Apostolic Sacrifice...
It's hard enough to sort out their relationship, and the leper has added more new terms without explanation: L Junction, Utopian EVA, Anti-Universe...
Stop, stop, stop.
Sir knows you're dizzy.
But the point of "The End" is not the "evil plan" itself.
Rather, through the attitudes of all parties to this plan, it reflects what everyone believes and is paranoid.
In this supplementary plan, the person at the helm is Shinji's father, Tsubondo.
The two people who were the deepest in the mustard were finally able to face each other.
In order to stop his father's plan and make a decision with him, Shinji once again took the first plane.
This time, he was proactive.
For Shinji.
Fathers are a collection of contradictions, both fearful and eager to approach.
After his mother died, Shinji was basically "forgotten" and "snubbed" by his father.
Why was Yuantang so indifferent to his son Shinji?
In the old version of the ending, "Really For You", it is said that everything stems from fear.
Fear of hurting the child around him, fear of the child being hurt and thus hurting himself.
So I can only blindly escape and close myself.
Feel that you are not qualified.
Reject the world before you get hurt.
In "The End", this "fear" is covered with a layer of expectation.
As Professor Dongyue said to Yuantang:
You are here to teach him
That's why he went through the same experience as you
What kind of encounter?
The encounter about the "loss".
The entire human race completed the plan, and all the high-sounding reasons were false (that was Seele's idea).
He just wanted to see his wife again.
So far.
The "Human Completion Plan" is more like the "Self-Completion Plan" of Yuantang.
The protagonists are two of his closest relatives:
Son (true heir) and wife (only).
"Wei" hides his soul in the first trumpet machine, accompanied by Shinji;
Under the protection of his mother, Shinji completes the "killing of the gods" and ends his father's obsession.
Now we finally understand the indifference of The Source Hall.
It is the timidity that all of us have experienced
I'm looking forward to mending regrets (meeting my wife again).
But deep down, I long even more for someone (son) to feel his pain and then poke through his fear.
03.
Toshio Suzuki, the Ghibli boss, said that the protagonist Shinji is the incarnation of Hideaki Anno.
"I want to be an adult, but I can't."
Too accurate isn't it?
Even Sir feels that the entire "EVA" series so far can be seen as a child's questioning of the world, and finally hating his own limitations, but still creeping towards the south wall.
"The End" is about the limitations of man.
Asuka is limited to loneliness.
Her competitiveness is to make herself live, and to resist the emptiness of being alone.
- Strong, so that you don't need others.
One thing she couldn't let go of for 14 years: Why didn't the true heir of the year come to save herself?
At the end of the story, the two reunite on a surreal beach.
The same beach, in the 1997 version of "True Heart for You", appeared, that version of Shinji wanted to "strangle" Asuka; in "The End", he chose to tell the other party the confession that was 14 years late.
△ Top: "True Heart for You", Below: "The End"
In Sir's view, the two versions of the ending seem to be completely different, but they have the same destination:
A belated death or confession is a decision to give yourself to the other party, but ultimately let go.
Kaoru is limited to the ego.
In The End, Shinji says to him, "You are like my father."
Meaning: Kaoru is always living for others.
In order to obtain the optimal solution to the happiness of Shinji and the human completion plan, the two met countless times in different time and space.
Shinji's success freed Kaoru from eternal fate, and at the same time, Kaoru's existence was completely eliminated.
There are also Ayapolis, Tsubakido, Wei...
In The End, they have more or less completed their self-redemption, because they have finally faced and let go of some of their limitations.
The protagonist Shinji remains.
The ending seems to be the most satisfactory
Saved mankind, awakened his father, and fulfilled his friends.
He himself completed the metamorphosis.
Can you listen to others and accept their deaths?
You've grown up, Shinto
After Hideaki Anno destroyed the EVA world he had built by himself, he still left a trace of tenderness for Shinji.
EVA is the only protection of the mother for her son.
It is also a memory symbol for all viewers for 26 years.
But only by saying goodbye can Shinji grow up.
Only truly free.
Is it really so complete?
Don't forget, no matter how many times you save the world.
The former true heir has sinned in the eyes of many:
Hesitation, fear, weakness, childishness, closure...
The limitations of Shinji are also the limitations of Hideaki Anno.
04.
Hideaki Anno has a nickname called "Leper".
"EVA" was once the best endorsement of his character:
A large number of frustrated people in life gather here and excrete extreme emotions.
Over the course of 26 years, a series of fanatical believers have been cultivated.
How fanatical?
In 2005, NHKBS TV did a special program for the 10th anniversary of EVA.
One of the guests is a novelist named Ryuhiko Takimoto, who has been an avid fan of EVA since adolescence and has faced bad reviews of the theatrical version in the society.
He angrily called these people idiots.
He even shouted that these people should die.
The leper knows very well that he has had too much of an impact on the world, especially negative ones.
An important reason why the old version of "EVA" was so dark in the later stages was that when the animation was being made, there was an earthquake and a sarin gas incident in Japan.
These two social events that deeply affected Japanese society made the suicide rate in Japan soar that year.
Restlessness, anxiety, fear.
These emotions, and the wanderings in the face of them, are projected into EVA by Hideaki Anno.
Like a mirror reflecting Japanese society.
Twenty-five years later, in 2020, the tenth anniversary of the 3.11 earthquake in Japan coincided with the tragedy of the coronavirus ravaging the world.
At that time, the leper was still making "The End" in a hurry.
Perhaps in the past, he would put this negative emotion of society into his work, and there was a reason for a darker ending.
However, he did not do so.
Instead, all the characters have a peaceful home.
Maybe he's become gentler, maybe he wants to give everyone a little hope of survival.
So make EVA less "EVA".
The leper is not a leper, and it is necessary to mention another "behind-the-scenes trader".
True Hippo.
The long-planned destruction plan in the film has various clues pointing to her. But his character's own anecdote is extremely limited and full of mysteries.
Fans are willing to believe it
Shin-shibo is the embodiment of Yume Yoko, the wife of a.
Not only in appearance and that iconic red-rimmed glasses.
If you understand the production process of the new theatrical version of EVA, the dream appearance (true Shibo) may be the key to the promotion of the whole story.
After the release of "Q", Hideaki Anno fell into decadence.
He must reveal the ending, but he doubts his own ability- he is extremely afraid of not being able to create a satisfactory ending for everyone.
Eventually, he suffered from depression again, and the production of a new theatrical version of EVA had to come to a standstill.
The reason why it survived.
In addition to the support of his friends, for example, Miyazaki not only often comforted the lepers, but also specially asked him to voice the male protagonist of "The Wind Rises" Horikoshi Jiro.
More importantly, the wife next to him does not abandon him.
Seeing her husband constantly putting pressure on himself, it seems that there is nowhere to retreat.
Yume yoko comforted her husband with her companionship, and she said, "Even if everyone is gone, I am still there." ”
Every time her husband has an important moment, she will immediately come to the scene to congratulate and praise him.
Perhaps old fans will feel that the new theatrical version is weakened in its deep sense compared to the grand theological and philosophical propositions of the old version.
but.
Is it necessarily shallow to return to reality and admit some degree of "failure"?
Documentary "Goodbye to All Evangelion!" In Hideaki Anno's 1214th Day, there is a scene that moves Sir.
Shinji's voice actress Megumi Ogata asks the ruffian, "Will a new story start here?" ”
He replied:
"No, it won't. It's lonely, but it's time to graduate. ”
This farewell was not easy at all in Anno Hideaki's heart.
He threw a "graduation ceremony" for himself and all the audiences that were a quarter of a century late.
Exactly 26 years.
But this torment and glory will not be cut off.
On April 3, at the 50th anniversary of Kamen Rider's birth, the third bullet of the commemorative work was officially announced as the finale: director, Hideaki Anno. This is another special film project (released in 2023) after "Godzilla" and "Ultraman".
Stepping out of the completely fictional animation and moving towards the half-truth and half-false close-up, the 61-year-old wants to make up for what animation can't do through live-action movies.
Sir was delighted that Hideaki Anno no longer used "profundity" as a target for his creations.
Because of ignoring oneself, ignoring the profundity of one's surroundings, one will eventually become a light-hearted preacher.
What is the target that replaces "deep"?
That's the "absolute realm" that all good creators are hungry for.
Haruki Murakami likens it to "the toxin of the pufferfish":
I largely agree with the idea that writing novels is unhealthy. When we intend to write a novel, when we intend to use words to present a story, the toxin-like things hidden in human nature seep out inexorably and appear on the surface. Writers have to confront this toxin to a greater or lesser extent, knowing the dangers, but still having to deal with them skillfully. Without this toxin in between, we cannot really practice creative behavior. I apologize in advance for the chiba of the following metaphor: this may be similar to the most delicious part of the puffer fish. No matter how you think about it, writing can't be said to be "healthy livelihood".
--Haruki Murakami, "What Do I Talk About When I Talk About Running"
Ang Lee likened it to an "island in the Pacific":
Halfway through the shoot, I found it terrible... In fact, I am no different from "Young Pi", and A tiger is drifting on a boat and in the Pacific Ocean, which is a very frightening feeling. I find that everything I see is wrong, everything I believe in is disillusionment, so I am trying to find an island in the sea, I have to innovate, I have to reach a coordination with this technology, I have to use it to communicate with the audience, to combine the things that are broken.
——Lee Ang North Film Festival Master Class
And in Hideaki Anno.
It is the honesty of "even if you are lonely, you have to graduate".
Honesty is not a complete expression of nakedness.
It's real struggle, feeling the bounce back of the struggle, and eventually having to reveal your powerlessness, sleepiness, and even frustration.
In the end, Hideaki Anno's most colorful "smuggling" is a piece of peace.
Shinji and Shinji rushed out of the station hand in hand.
The animation switches the real scene.
Breaking the Fourth Wall tells you:
After all, "EVA" did not save the grown-up adult.
It was she who was beside me who finally rescued me.
This is probably the growth that Hideaki Anno wants to pass on to us through this goodbye
You finally know.
What you want to protect and what you can protect.
You've finally seen it, too.
How to be protected.
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