i dont get the last scene with evryone turned into lcl, and the whole 'choking to life' scene. what was that about.?
2006-12-14 04:49:20 · 7 answers · asked by african_woman 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
i watched the series and the two movies. im still stumped.
2006-12-14 05:04:53 · update #1
everything is about shinji coming to terms that 'woman' is both a motherly and sexual dichotomy. Immediately before the choking scene, we see shinji's mother stroking his face as she sinks into the sea. On land, Shinji chokes Asuka and she responds by performing the same gesture. Think of it as the symbolic act of Asuka becoming 'woman' for shinji now that he has learned the carnal truth of the world and must discard the ideallic concept of the virgin mother. Effectively, shinji completes his Jungian reconciliation of opposites necessary to define the 'self.' This movie is very sexual but in a strange and confusing way, much like it is for a 14 year old.
It makes it easier to grasp if you think of it as a yin and yang thing. Shinji is the yang, but he absolutely comprehends that he is missing his yin. He feels that absence and tries to fill it with non-sexual Rei and Kaworu as non-sexual female and male, respectively, but realizes during the process of instrumentality that if he uses Rei/Kaworu he is effectively removing himself from the reason we exist... the desire to find our missing piece... it gives us value, purpose, joy, everything. When Adam and Eve sat in the garden of eden, they had food without hunger, drink without thirst, day without night, etc... no contradictions or opposites... therefore no reason to do anything. Shinji finally figures it out and expresses his true honest emotion with Asuka--he is exerting his AT field, so to speak--and Asuka drops her AT field and does not try to hurt Shinji, her first reciprocal act of love. The last line of dialog is tremendously vague in japanese, and in its most uninflected form could be "feeling is bad." But whatever translation you choose, it is clearly the first time Asuka expresses a view to Shinji that isn't egotistical optimism... therefore more evidence of Shinji and Asuka solving the hedgehog's dilemma.
2006-12-14 20:36:52 · answer #1 · answered by Sean M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not watch neon genesis!! Maybe watch episode one, that ways you'll know how overrated and shitty it is. Really I couldn't even force myself to watch episode 4. If you like stuff like neon genesis watch cowboy bebop or code geass. Neon genesis has a retarded plot and I feel it is aimed for children about 10. Only watch neon genesis if there is absolutly nothing else to watch.
2016-05-24 03:22:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understood it (to an extent lol). It's pointless knowing it anyway, the movies are slighty better alternative endings.
2006-12-14 10:14:05 · answer #3 · answered by Steivan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, yes, the crazy ending to Eva...well, thank goodness they are remaking the series, hopefully we'll get part of it this time!
2006-12-14 05:04:52 · answer #4 · answered by Melissa L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not supposed to make sense. You have to watch the 2 movies for it to start to make sense.
2006-12-14 04:57:27 · answer #5 · answered by Kayte 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anyone really understood the ending. It was too much philosophy for me.
2006-12-14 09:35:59 · answer #6 · answered by aya 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's said that people have the choice to return to being alive if they have the will to do so. However, it's what the will is dependant on.
2006-12-14 05:40:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋