Anno has a story to tell, so he has dramatize the process. If he showed GNR fall apart, etc, without offering some indication as to why it was happening, the audience would be lost. EoE portrays the process in a very compressed fashion; #26 offers 20+ minutes of blah, blah, blah about the psychological and philosophical issues involved. As I've mentioned before, if he were to show the physical reality of Instrumentality, it would be something like a bunch of little red dots just hanging there, winking at each other...Reichu wrote:Which kind of makes me wonder... If, at that point in Instrumentality (since, like, all minds are connected and stuff), Shinji knew everything that Rei knew, why did Rei need to tell Shinji what was going on?
Word to the wise: when you see something onscreen in Evangelion, as a general rule, your 'default' assumption should be that it is, in fact, happening. This applies even to scenes taking place within Instrumentality; for while such scenes are not depicting physical reality, that does not by any means mean that it is not, in some sense, happening. Think of Instrumentality as a sort of Pseudo-reality, i.e. a manifestation of the interaction of the minds of the characters involved...evolve wrote:well before your informative post here, I had assumed that the part where Kaworu (I spelled it right this time!) shows up was "symbolic" (ie: didn't exactly happen) or something like that.
Originally posted on: 17-Sep-2004, 03:52 GMT