the end of evangelion: it all returns to nothing
All right, so I just watched End of Evangelion, and the ending of that perhaps made even less sense then the series ending. I mean, at least the series ending could pretty much boil down to Shinji finding self-acceptance and all that. But the movie ending? I pretty much stopping knowing what was going on after everyone turned into Tang.
The movie as a whole was probably one of the weirdest, messed up things I have ever seen (but I don't say this in a bad way). First of all, it's pretty much the king of Soundtrack Dissonance. You've got Asuka going on a mad rampage... with Bach's "Air on a G String" playing in the background. And oh yeah: songs with lyrics about contemplating suicide, played over a sequence of everyone dissolving into orange goo, SHOULD NOT BE SO DAMN CATCHY. I'm going to be singing "IT ALL RETURNS TO NOTHING, IT KEEPS TUMBLING DOWN, TUMBLING DOWN, TUMBLING DOWN" for the rest of my life now.
And then, of course, there's the fact that EVERYONE DIES. When everyone isn't turning into orange goo, they're dying in ridiculously bloody ways... except for Asuka, who gets eaten. I think the most upsetting death for me was Misato, because she was one of my favorites, but the fact that first she had to make out with Shinji was a bit creepy. Oh, and the fact that Rei was naked for about 95% of the movie, including when she grew into Giant Naked Rei and.... yeah, that was about the point when things stopped making sense. Especially when she started rambling on about reality and existence and I'm like "Seriously? We didn't get enough of this in episodes 25 and 26 in the series?" And the random live-action sequences? This is precisely why movies like this should not be watched at 12:15 in the morning. I can only hope that I don't have dreams involving everyone turning into Tang and Giant Naked Rei and Asuka/Unit 02 killing everything.
... However, this provides a handy snarky summary of everything which still doesn't make any sense but at least it's funny instead of horrifying.
The movie as a whole was probably one of the weirdest, messed up things I have ever seen (but I don't say this in a bad way). First of all, it's pretty much the king of Soundtrack Dissonance. You've got Asuka going on a mad rampage... with Bach's "Air on a G String" playing in the background. And oh yeah: songs with lyrics about contemplating suicide, played over a sequence of everyone dissolving into orange goo, SHOULD NOT BE SO DAMN CATCHY. I'm going to be singing "IT ALL RETURNS TO NOTHING, IT KEEPS TUMBLING DOWN, TUMBLING DOWN, TUMBLING DOWN" for the rest of my life now.
And then, of course, there's the fact that EVERYONE DIES. When everyone isn't turning into orange goo, they're dying in ridiculously bloody ways... except for Asuka, who gets eaten. I think the most upsetting death for me was Misato, because she was one of my favorites, but the fact that first she had to make out with Shinji was a bit creepy. Oh, and the fact that Rei was naked for about 95% of the movie, including when she grew into Giant Naked Rei and.... yeah, that was about the point when things stopped making sense. Especially when she started rambling on about reality and existence and I'm like "Seriously? We didn't get enough of this in episodes 25 and 26 in the series?" And the random live-action sequences? This is precisely why movies like this should not be watched at 12:15 in the morning. I can only hope that I don't have dreams involving everyone turning into Tang and Giant Naked Rei and Asuka/Unit 02 killing everything.
... However, this provides a handy snarky summary of everything which still doesn't make any sense but at least it's funny instead of horrifying.