Pop That Corn 10 - Neon Genesis Evangelion / The End of Evangelion
Added 2023-01-23 21:49:07 +0000 UTCAndrew, Charles, and Nick (@JucheMane) discuss the 1995–97 Hideaki Anno series Neon Genesis Evangelion / The End of Evangelion.
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I'm happy I watched this shit for the first time when I was like 19 instead of a tween dumbass lol. Also I think the whole thing is really a metaphorical journey and the feasibility of their survival in the post film world doesn't really matter all that much. In fact it would even be kind of thematically appropriate to assume that part of their failure is that it took this global cataclysm that resulted in the loss of all life to finally get them to become real people
bruce moment
2023-03-07 20:51:03 +0000 UTCYeah we probably sold the Freud stuff a little short in this episode. I do think there's more intention behind it than the religious imagery, and you don't really have to believe that Freudian psychology is "true" in order to see how it's a useful tool for Anno to develop his characters.
episode 1
2023-01-26 17:39:23 +0000 UTCThe Watchmen parallel really works here, never thought to use that analogy.Thank you for the insight, Corn Boys!
Libeccio
2023-01-26 14:34:55 +0000 UTCLate, but great ep, I think the focus on existentialist themes was great, but I will say I know you guys thought it was a bit hack, but my joke was always that the show takes seriously "what if Freud was true." I imagine part of it could be the using of Freud references just like Christian ones, but I remember reading about Anno finally reading some stuff about psychology and Freud, and I imagine that, since mental illness stuff is still stigmatized there and other places, that that might have been relevant. Of course there's also the issue of translation (i.e., there's one episode with the translation "The Splitting of the Breast" which is very important for Kleinian psychoanalysis, for example, and there's background radio chatter in one episode that is translated as being about a woman whose lover isn't sure whether he wants a woman or his mother).
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2023-01-26 04:51:24 +0000 UTC
