Aug 5, 2011
ok, this is my first review and i'm writing it not to forget, why i like NGE so much, cause it really is a masterpiece. and i highly recommend you to watch firstly anime and than read the "review" (cause it's not rally...), and it might contain spoilers!!!(anyway i'm writing this, because in my opinion lot of people misunderstood this EVA, cause i think there is nothing vague in those series and doesn't really gives you the chance to interpret it) so this is what i think the main idea of NGE is.
in the first series we hear the phrase "hedgehog's dilemma" . quote:
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"even though, a hedgehog may wish to become close to another hedgehog, the closer they get, more they injure each other with their spines."
and after that we hear many times, that man cannot survive alone, shinji sad in last episode, that being alone is like being nothing. but it is really hard to live with others as well, it can bring so much pain, when the one you love doesn't really loves you and bails you or whatever...
and than (i must say here, that shinji rally is the younger self of his father) you grow up and learn "haw to interact with others, without pain", but in reality you become alone and close your heart to anyone, you start to stand on your own legs, like asuka realized, that "only one who can take care of you and understand you, is you yourself". and so you escape reality, but "sometimes escaping from reality can be painful too". it hurts when sometimes you see reality, it's like seeing yourself empty and incomplete when your alone, and time by time you loose the courage to face anyone, but at the same time you know "you must not run away",' cause this might be the salvation.
as for the angels, who are they and why they are called angels.
angels were the form of life like us,lonely like us, who hated being alone and wanted to interact with us, so that we could be together, although i'm not really sure what they in reality symbolize, but it must be something like our everyday problems that wont us alone, and rather than face it we run from them, because it's too much of a headache to face it, but with every faced problems, and mistakes that we make,we study something new. "nothings gonna change, until you have the courage to face it." nobody and nothing is ever really perfect, that is what we should be able to see it and accept it. but mankinds will to be perfect was so great (in NGE) that they created the living god (when all the souls melted together) , so that they would be no longer alone, they thought that it could bring them happiness, but they were wrong. NOTHING can be perfect in THIS world, like perfect map can't be perfect because it's so complete and hard to use (if you're an IB student probably you know what i mean). AND SO author, (i believe) tells us, that yes, we can't choose our parents, or the situation and the era we are born in, but we can change our present an, yes we make mistakes, but who doesn't, that's nothing to be upset of, just stand again and face whatever you have to face. "miracles aren't something that just happen, they're something that people make happen." "if you want the real happiness you've got to find that by yourself, not waiting someone to give it to you." " remember, that anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live." and for the final "to all children CONGRATULATIONS!"
As Jostein Gaarder sad, life is a lottery where every ticket's owner is a winner and you, who are reading this book is one of those winners, lucky one!
this is my understanding of NGE and this is the reason why i love it so much... hope you'll enjoy this masterpiece too..
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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