@ScumFuckCowboy_ with the claustrophobia of the entry plugs (which are portrayed both calming and terrifying in different contexts) and its just very spooky and dreadful feeling.
@ScumFuckCowboy_ One way I think it does this is the massive sense of scale in the backgrounds. NERV is just unfathomably massive, but even non-NERV settings just seem scaled up dramatically and end up making the atmosphere feel unsafe. An Angel could just swoop in at any moment. Contrast that
@bendreyfuss I think it could. If you travel to the same city 25 times that doesn’t make you well travelled. If you eat the same food everyday that doesn’t make you a foodie.
@andre_w_gg@jupiterbrandos@revivedrealized@thatoneguy7560 teen crush behavior, like Asuka being overly mean to Shinji, telling him to look at her in her bathing suit, asking him for a kiss, etc. But it's messy because she's got an intense superiority complex due to her childhood.
@andre_w_gg@jupiterbrandos@revivedrealized@thatoneguy7560 Haven't seen the 30th anniversary special but there's lots of evidence in the show that Asuka has complicated crush on Shinji. She realizes it in episode 22 (but she still hates it at that point) when Kaji is replaced by Shinji in her angel hallucination. Also plenty of classic
@revivedrealized@thatoneguy7560 Btw I also saw people saying your interpretations are idiotic and I think thats rude, figuring out the dynamics of the show is part of the joy of it. Sorry people are weird lol. They probably have their AT fields up quite high :)
@revivedrealized@thatoneguy7560 I think if it showed a positive loving vibe ending, it would take away from a key message about how life is still going to involve a lot of suffering. It’s the other way around: Shinji is wracked by the pain of life, but despite that he has the will to go on.
@andre_w_gg@jupiterbrandos@revivedrealized@thatoneguy7560 We don’t get to see how everyone else rejects instrumentality (there isn’t enough time). But imo it’s b/c she loves him. She’s not yanked out, she chose to reject it too. Her hand drops, she says she feels disgust, it’s complex love. But it’s one more final: i need you.
@naranciagaming Even without fully understanding the context though it's an extremely cathartic and still fully understandable from an emotional standpoint.
@naranciagaming Once you understand the full context of shinji rejecting instrumentality, this movie truly becomes such an emotional experience. So many intersecting lines center on shinji making that choice, extending to essentially asking the viewer if they reject it themselves.
My End of Evangelion theater take is that they should have bumped the volume up by like 50%, I know I’m blasting that shit louder at home and it hits way harder. I wanted the theater to be shaking.
@pourfairelevide Killing of a Sacred Deer accomplishes this imo, its title and plot inspiration comes from Iphigenia in Aulis (a Trojan War story) and I’ve always interpreted as portraying ancient Greek morality in an alien manner.
I’m excited for Nolan’s The Odyssey for the weird reason that I’ve always had a similar view of The Odyssey to Nolan’s other works in that they are presented/taken seriously but I’ve always found them to be very funny.