Postby Kendrix » Sun Aug 30, 2015 1:17 pm
It's beautiful and obviously highly metaphorical, for me personally the Rei-filled parts were a particular attack to the heartstrings.
But mostly here we see Shnji observing the post-apocalyptic wasteland and reflecting on the past and we see things blur together, past!Gendo, Shinji's stint in the awakened EVA 01, a scary angel mask face but not the one EVA 01 had...
Obviously the shot where he gets Sachiel's chest/cracked core symbolizes the utter devastation of his heart, but it's also the blurring between angel and human.
One big point of interests are those trees in the background - they're not red, and i there's something as sophisticated as trees within walking distance from ground zero, this planet is most definitely still habitable. There were those flowers in Q but you could blame these on "eye of the storm".
But you also see core-ified grass and even the trees are... kind of purplish or blue in some shots, so we'll have to wait and see. But it puts a still-mostly habitable each back on the "somewhat possible" tab for me.
I mean, those floating pieces and half-translucent skeletons/ core-EVas aren't encouraging, it's like the laws of physics themselves are desintegrating.
Then there is the elaborate depiction of Shinji's reaction to snowflakes, like they're this alien, fascinating thing, just another part of the bizarre wasteland. Snowflakes should be the last familiar thing but Shinji's never seen them before. So it's a very deep and complicated and complete kind of sadness there.
He probably finds them to be an inexplicable, beautiful thing in a world that's become a surreal nightmare.
As for the spear spitting things, they have big green eyes, like nekkid EVA 01. Although the eye scare wasn't in rebuild, so yeah...
Beyond the already mentioned Asuka's, there's also the shorelines that follow them (or come shortly before them)- Blue to red, (as in NGE) blue on the fish preservation institute, red with stuff from the Q wasteland.
How meaningful to see the aquarium so much because that was one of the things that really hit me while rewatching 2.0 post Q - These efforts to preserve and "restock" the earth were in vain and now it's even more devastated, and as for "taking care of Katsuragi", Shinji couldn't do that either look what's become of her.
But the whole thing - Asuka going from proud and hopeful to broken and vulnerable/ old and bitter, respectively, the devastation of earth, even those pics of Kaworu in various poses from inviting to downcast (as in farewell, or lost) is a depiction of rise and decline, cummulating in that shot of ReiQ, who, for Shinji, is also a reminder of things he's lost.
This is all really from Shinji's perspective, not ReiQs or Asukas, so this montage might be something to be seen in similar terms, a recap of what's been rather than what's gonna happen, Shinji letting the image in his mind wander: He made a small, tentative effort to get closer to Rei, and his feelings/intentions actually reached her (communication motif; See all that talk about ep 6) and she made her own small, tentative steps toward him... and then she just dissapeared.
She does seem to be at the same shoreline that Shinji is ar in the later shots. they wouldn't spoil something as massive as what happens to ReiQ though a bad end doesn't seem too unlikely and everything was worse than before.
Note that in the last shot, we see Shinji-in-plugsuit overlooking a rain water lake... with Shinji-in-uniform overlooking what looks a lot like the crater that replaced Tokyo3 post ep 23, something similar to those shots from eps 24 or 25' where Shinji stands overlooking the water, all hope lost.
So, he's at a similar point in the journey basically, and now for another finale.
The little chime when he sees and follows the Rei-in-uniform aparition really kills me, though. If this is literal, he probably isn't going to reach her. But then again, Rei always represented hope so that might be it, simply put, that the next step is some sort of hope appearing before him.
Most likely he'll encounter her in a mindscape-like environment during final impact as a last farewell. Or we might catch a break, which I always hope for, but Q being the way it was...[/i]
I wanted to try harvesting the rice
I wanted to hold Tsubame more
I wanted to stay together forever with the boy I like
Sailor Star Dust wrote:According to Eva Fan, based on Hayashibara's manner of speaking, another Eva short related to the main story (NTE in this case??), like a completely separate "derivative-version Eva" is possible. He speculates maybe it'd have to do with that 3D CG Eva-like mecha from the PV (the "Black Evangelion").
