Yesterday at eleven o'clock ,11:00 ,00 ,"New Age Evangelion Theater Edition: The End" was officially launched on streaming media (global synchronization around the continent), and I was also the first to watch the entire theatrical version in the live broadcast room, and as an audience, I was very happy to see the film source only half a year away from the release
When the CP storm was first released in Japan, it was naturally a point of concern to everyone, but when you actually watch the theatrical version, you will find that this work does not actually put any space on describing the so-called CP between the things, until the end song remembers, I did not turn my attention to the CP dispute, but silently sighed: "Ah, it's over"
According to the popular saying now, if the focus of the movie is on CP, it will only make people feel that the pattern is small
The story continues with Q ending with Shinji being taken back to a sanctuary-like town by Kensuke for spiritual recuperation after the shock, where Kurori and Asuka are also located
As one of the few more everyday plots, it mainly describes the current state of mind and experience of the three people, including Kurori's relaxed and pleasant rural life and Asuka's "re-being" transformation of Shinji
This peaceful life soon ended with the orange juice of Kuroi, and Shinji also picked up his spirits, and everyone followed Misato on the Miracle to destroy The 13th Machine
On the way, Asuka also made some sad confessions to Shinji, which also paved the way for the subsequent plot
The plot of the battle part in the middle will not be repeated, and there is a special battle scene that may not be liked by everyone, but it is also quite interesting
Everything was in the Commander's plan, and the crowd did not succeed in destroying the 13th machine, and in the end it was still a one-on-one dialogue between Shinji and his father
The middle is still full of riddles of the Longinus gun and the Cassius gun representing a large number of religious elements such as hope and despair, respectively, which are too unfriendly to us non-corroborating parties
Because the two have exchanged too many riddles around hope, despair, and creation, the audience can only look confused when they hear it
(And listening to the discussion between their father and son around hope and despair, what I thought in my head at that moment was):
VS
The voices of the two CV classic characters Madao and Makoto Naeki (super high school hope) really made me unable to enter the play ==
However, this does not prevent us from understanding the more core plot after that, and this is where the audience can see that Shinji has finally really grown
Shinji accepts himself and his father, and offers to learn about Tsubasa as a person, and the father and son communicate spiritually through the medium of "headphones"
The monologue of TingYuantang is the story of his own rescue by his wife by a marginalized person who is afraid of social terror and refuses to integrate into society, and unlike the information that the audience has learned from the theatrical version of the old work in the past, this monologue is closer to "reality" and more like the protagonist himself shows the audience his own mental journey
And it is precisely here that unlike the previous EVA story, Shinji and his father understand each other and successfully unravel Tsubakido, and the biggest promoter of the completion plan changes his mood and purpose (it looks like Hideaki Anno's reconciliation with the audience).
After sending off his father, Shinji, who has fully grown up, bids farewell to the three important protagonists of Asuka, Nagisa, and Ayapoli:
The depiction of Asuka is the most detailed, first talking about asuka's vulnerability of longing to be recognized and loved, and then Kensuke appearing as a puppet to appease her with fatherly words (personally, I think that the character of Kensuke here is actually a substitute for blessing, but after all, Blessing has been dead for a long time and has locked up a relationship with Miri Ikuko)
After that, it returns to the final scene of "True Heart for You", which is a completely different ending from the two people who did not understand each other and taunted each other before
Shinji volunteers to confess to Asuka and wakes up Asuka from the Old World and returns the plug where she is located to the ground
Later, in the conversation with Ayabori, it can be seen that Shinji entrusted the Old World's Asuka to Kensuke
It is followed by Nagisa, revealing the real reason why Kaoru cares so much about Shinji and wants him to be happy: Kaoru wants herself to be happy
It can also be seen from Nagisa's monologue that the new theatrical version explains the various endings of the old work as parallel worlds, while Nagisa wakes up on the moon again and again and experiences human completion again and again but can't find the answer (here you can imagine Nagato Yuki's experience)
Similarly, this time the ending changes, the attack is reversed, and the toddler image of Shinji once again persuades Nagisa Kaoru
Finally, Li, this dialogue does not focus on the relationship between the two, but Shinji tells Li her thoughts, ready to restart the world, enter the real world without eva, and also tell Li that she will eventually find her own home in the new world
After that, Shinji also bids farewell to his mother, who has always been by his side, and travels to a new world with Shinjibo
The world resets, everything that happened in the old world ceases to exist, and people meet at the station platform but do not know each other
Shinji, who has fully grown up and said goodbye to his former cowardly and world-weary self, and Shinji, who also retains memories, skillfully fight and joke
The two ran into the real world hand in hand, and the ending song sounded
The end of the play
After watching it, the biggest personal feeling is still the growth of Shinji, after all, since the old work, I don't like his cowardly and incompetent personality and setting (and therefore I have no feeling for all the CPs), even in the TV and the old theater version of the ending, I didn't see the positive changes in his personality, but this time from the beginning of the dialogue with his father, he actively and bravely faced himself and faced others all the way to achieve true growth in the past twenty-five years, which made people look at him without impressment
At the same time, it also reflects the changes of Hideaki Anno himself in the past twenty-five years, although the core idea of this work is still to persuade the dead house to return to reality, but it has no longer twisted itself, insisting on opposing the audience, giving everyone a relatively happy ending, giving EVA a complete end to the long IP story (and then embracing the close-up and Ultraman)
As for the so-called CP dispute, this work actually has a lot of blank space, and the interpretation of various plots is a matter of opinion, enough for the audience to reverie without arguing at all, and the personal understanding is:
Asuka from the Old World entrusts kensuke with a family-like emotion, while Asuka of the New World is still alone
Ayapolis and Nagisa are more like a metaphor for Adam and Lilith being arranged on the platform for dialogue
Compared with the CP relationship, Shinji is more like a spiritual symbol leading Shinji back to society together (after all, her role description is relatively thin, and the laying of the foundation is too little, and from the final Shinji's separate confession object, it can be seen that her positioning is significantly lower than that of The Three Kaoru)
Of course, if you are seriously immersed in the narrative of the second half of the end, you will not care about all this at all, as any old fan who has been chasing for many years, the words left after watching the movie are only: the end of the flower! EVA ended successfully, Grandpa Green Knot!