Was just thinking the other day how Gendo has zero credentials other than saying "Launch the Eva" and every other time you see him he's just kinda chilling
people really forget how Bureaucratic Evangelion feels. you see the exact chains of decisions made in any given situation and the exact way responses to those decisions are handled, in board rooms, control rooms, etc by specific people. itโs an Anno specialty and very nice to see
people love to get mad at hot gay guys off the assumption that theyโre mean shallow people and then end up saying a ton of unprompted mean shit to them
I also find it interesting how little discussion there is (online anyway) about how stunting poverty can be. It's not a movie about one thing - Chiron growing up poor and seeing his mother suffer from substance abuse is just as important to understanding him as a character.
@Pile_of_Things Was typing "A little pop culture interrogation never hurt anyone" then i remembered kpop fans doxxing naysayers was a common event in the late 2010s
Almost seven years clean and sober.
Not a victory lap. Just a fact.
To anyone in the fight right now: it gets quieter. Not easier. Quieter. In the quiet, you find out who you actually are.
Thatโs the part they canโt take from you.
A fake abstract industry set up by car dealerships and sex fiends, sure, but that was such a common theme in media growing up, a critique against having lived a shallow life with the express purpose of consuming more to further thin it out
...arrested the bureaucrat and made sure his village got their clean water - literal opposite of what USA is doing here. These types of incidents are always going to colour my view of both countries. It's truly "socialism or barbarism," as the adage goes!
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