The silhouettes of the fish are clearly coelocanths. I wonder if that has anything to do with the idea of evolution. Coelocanths are very similar to the first fish to climb onto land and the ancestor of us all. The tree of life symbology fits into this quite nicely.
Yeah I think something similar every time I see it. I think linking that up with the whole religious interpretation (and the fact that the skeleton of the 'bird' we later see is very clearly based off an Archaeopteryx skeleton with the skull replaced by a human skull), it's clearly symbolic of antiquity and the way in which all living things being connected evolutionarily over the repeating expanse of time not only juxtaposes with the whole possibility of some kind of God or God-like entity that's anything like what's portrayed in scripture on a literal level, but also fits in with the whole rebirth angle as well.
I think you’re on to something when you say that the girl represents humanity and the man is divinity. Personally, I think the girl represents the innocence of humanity TRYING to survive in an alternate world where the world did not survive the great flood. The man is an actual agent of divinity; he finds the innocent survivors and delivers them to the maker (the high-tech egg-like ship) while those who had no faith (fishermen) are left behind in a soulless state.
Actually those fisherman had most faith of all...but they were blind Faith...hence why they woke up each day to chase shadows of fish...they never catch a fish yet wake up everyday and chase the shadows...I believe that was blind Faith and he harm that can do
It makes sense that the director doesn't really know what it means. I think he had vague themes and emotions he intentionally placed but he probably doesn't have a clear picture himself.
What I saw in Angel's death and the many eggs that emerged was John 12: 24 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."
This verse is the first thing that came to my mind after I watched the movie also !!! I even wrote it in the comment section under the movie , before I saw this video and your quoting the same verse !!! PTL !!
I love that you mention a loss in faith isn't an over night thing. I had my crisis of faith at 21 and wasn't really OK with where it led me till about 25-26.
I am Christian and never doubted my religion. If anything life experiences have brought me back to him. If you want to hear why just ask but rn to lazy to type out the story
Script Weaver the scene with the fishermen may also stand exactly for the prosecution of Christians, by the Romans. As the fishermen are the Romans and Christians being the fish. This may mean that he saying that the roman could always hunt the Christians down but they would never really get rid of the religion.
Schmityy722 i believe the one who caused destruction is the fisherman not the fish itself. The fish did nothing, they just there and wandering around do no harm to others. Only the fisherman are the one who destroying their own city by the own spear they threw. The same with people hunting down Christian, the Christian have done nothing wrong, they only introduce what is good and I know for sure everyone deep down inside know that what has been taught is good. It’s your choice whether you choose to follow it or not. But some blindly hate Christian to the point that they will bring destruction to anyone who dare to follow. There no religion was treated that way, only Christianity which should identify more about its truthfulness.
I believe the childish form of her is innocence, ignorance, like children whom live in a fantasy world but haven't wised up yet, she seems to become a adult when she drowns, i.e. becomes born again, thus in the end she matures as she figures out the truth through the Jesus figure.
I've recently watched Angels Egg and I'm fascinated by it. I've looked up a couple of reviews and analysis videos and so far yours and one by Stuckman seem to be the better ones, nice job. Subscribed
I like how you analyzed the movie in the context of Mamoru Oshii's personal crisis of faith. Looking at the themes through a more objective lens is fine too, but I kind of feel like focusing on the broader philosophical ideas alone can unintentionally remove the storytelling aspect of the film. After all, I wouldn't have been all that interested in those broader ideas if I hadn't emotionally connected to the characters and world-building first, so I found your approach very refreshing!!
An interesting thought that he lost his faith in favour of sustaining his personal identity. Reminds me of what Jesus said “those who lose their life for me will find it” in that we find our identity by losing it for Christ.
This is the most comprehensive and enlightening reviews of one of the most enchanting anime movies I have ever seen. I first watched Angels Egg a couple of years ago and was immediately spellbound, although, until watching your amazing review I never saw the religious connection. I see it now and it has given a semblance of meaning for me for this classic film. As a fallen christian I now empathize with Mamoru Oshii's vision. Your review has opened my eyes and whilst I have watched it many times I will forever see Angels Egg in a new light.
I don't really think it's fair to say the man has a factual mindset. For example, he can't remember whether he say the angel ("bird") or imagined it, until the girl shows him it's skeleton, proving this was a memory, not a dream.
I was never a Christian, but went to Sunday school a handful of times (mostly for Holiday reasons). I could have sworn the egg represented Jesus’s resurrection in the Easter Sunday school. So finding the egg empty is like finding that Jesus will never return.
The egg actually didn’t represent Jesus resurrection but a new birth of our human being. Just like being reborn in the Spirit and later into the kingdom of heaven. The egg was found empty is a false egg, which I believe represent a false path, the path that will not lead her to the truth result. That why the man needs to destroy it to guide her what is the truth way. And turned out, the true way to lead to “heaven” and her true happiness is inside of her: the soul
Phuong Hoang I’m sure the Sunday school teacher did say it did represent Christ (or at least the yolk part of the egg). Plus, it would be fitting for both charters to carry different parts of Christ life: the egg the girl carries that represents his life and the cross that the guy carries to represent his death.
Excelente job! This is by far the best analysis here in youtube. You were clever to make Oshi's life into the meaning in Angel's Egg. It would be great if you could do more analysis of this movie in the future (: !
I liked this analysis but there are three things I wanted to add in terms of symbolism. 1. Fish and fisherman are further tied to religion in a passage in the new testament in which Jesus tells two of his disciples he'll make them "fishers of men." This has to do with converting people to the Christian faith. I saw the scene with this in mind; the fisherman thought they were doing something worthwhile like how missionaries do, but in reality they were chasing shadows or wasting their time trying to spread the Christian faith. 2. The tree may not be the tree of life, but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This tree is also found in the garden of Eden in the book of Genesis and is where the serpent tempted Adam and Eve with fruit. If we're to tie the film's themes to Oshii's loss of religion, that tree would make more sense because he became privy to knowledge that was once forbidden that made him see the world in a different light just as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil did to Adam and Eve after they partook of its fruit. 3. When the girl dies, she looks like a woman. She even touches her stomach and reaches up to her breasts to display her physical development. Up until that point, she looked like a child. This may be a symbol for the death of faith as constituting the growth and personal development of Oshii.
I got interested in Angel's Egg when I heard about it, and I found it neat that it had this sort of symbolism at first, because I myself am a Christian, but when I heard that this movie was made right after the director had lost his Faith, I was a bit grieved by what the story would entail, and I can see how people have come to their conclusions a bit. But this is coming from a perspective that had lost its faith, and you as well have taken into account of such losing faith, as the director did. But Christianity doesn't necessarily do anything in and of itself for people to lose Faith. People do that to themselves when they lose hope and let people on the outside get to them. The way I see it, the man carrying the cross is more like a persecutor of Faith. He discourages the girl whenever she speaks of her hopeful faith in the egg and the life that could have come from it. After all, it was the Pharisees who had put down Christ and nailed Him to the Cross to try shutting Him up, but in reality, that had brought about much more life, and as the girl runs off and lets go of her life after the egg had been smashed, this had only backfired and created many more eggs full of life that shall soon spring forth. This should be more symbolic of how Christ had given Life to those who would believe in Him and take His offer to have new life abundant. In effect, it's the opposite of what your analysis was, and this is coming from somebody who actually knows The Faith in question here. Don't make assumptions and analyses on something you're looking at from the outside. Try seeing it from an inside perspective too, and you may see the opposite effect from that view.
Yeah the problem I've seen with lots of reviews of Angel's Egg is that most people analysing don't have a solid understanding of theology and therefore miss many of the symbols. The director, despite losing his faith, clearly did have a solid grasp of theology. Like you, I saw this in quite the opposite way. I think the man was someone who represented the director's personal struggle. He really wanted to believe and hope like the girl, but the outside world had hardened his heard to accepting it like she could so easily. He broke the egg out of frustration at himself, as well as out of curiosity as to the genuineness of her faith. The eggs that come from her mouth with her last breath seem to signify that the faith was inside her, and were based on more than just the physicality of the egg. Him seeing her in salvation confirms that he knows her faith was true. The ending leaves us guessing as to what his response will be.
I actually disagree a bit with you on the thing about the man. I think he the one who save her. Cause the egg, which is precious to her, bear nothing good for her both spiritually and physically. She has a strong faith indeed, the faith in believing that the egg will hatch because it is alive. However, the truth it is not. Would you think she will be happy hold on to what she believes is good and turn out it is not? The same mindset for those get addicted to drugs. They all begging for it, but can you just let them continue using it after knowing it is bad? So the man, after knowing the “truth”, has decided to set her free. If you noticed at first, when the girl dropped her egg, it was the man who came and brought it back to her saying: you should cherish what important “inside” (sorry if my quote is not right lol”, which hints to her that what important is not the egg she holding outside but many eggs inside of her that she hasn’t discovered. And indeed, it is painful when something we thought important was taken away even it’s for our sake, but there still hope ahead, as when she about to enter the next world, she was able to fulfill her utmost desire: bearing the living egg and believe it will hatch. I think this movie got deeper than it seems. It’s not negative but somehow depicts pretty good what the journey of faith should be. As a person who Catholic since birth and starts following God by my own will 4 years ago with studying in Bible, this movie depicts a lot about how God sees things different than us. To almost anyone that doesn’t have faith, what they see is grief because of what has been taken away even though it is not truthfully good. While as for me, I felt like the girl has reached her ultimate goal, granted by God (through the image of the eye). Though she has false faith and suffer because of her method, but her innocence desire has nothing wrong, and to God it is true pure.
@@PhuongHoang-gm6xx To that I say not everything we hold so close is bad. Sometimes we need something to hold onto in order to survive and find meaning in life. After all, what are we supposed to do when there is no goal to follow? Wander around like some hollow and hopeless shell of a person? We as a human race thrive off of goals, whether we give it to ourselves or somebody gives it to us.
Boomblox5896 yes of course we all need to hold onto something to put our wholeheartedly believing that we will receive good results and bear fruits in the end. However as you can see not all things can help you reach the true fulfilnrss. Or I must say nothing in this world will give you eternal happiness. It’s only temporary. And it’s good to have temporary joy as well, as long as that temporary joy doesn’t stray you away from what is truly important. That’s why, as for me solely, the one I invested in and know I will receive good things in the end is God and only Him can make me happy. So hope you can also decide who and what you should choose to rely yourself on so you can receive fruitful results as well 😊 God bless!
ive watched AE for the first time last week, and do even found a analysis That Good, dude keep the great work and make material about other symbolic titles.
it's rather simple really; The girl represents humanity and the egg the duality between purity and sin. The man himself represents jesus christ, as can be evidently seen from him carrying a cross (or just a christian in general). The man smashing the egg enables the transformation for humanity. The girl chasing the man and falling into water represents a baptism, through which the girl is eternalised in heaven. And all of the new eggs growing on trees represents humanity's new birth. TLDR; The girl carried a precous and fragile item and cared for it, but caused her to not use it for it's intended purposes (to shatter it). The wandering man carrying a cross than comes in to rectify that issue. He's literally send by heaven and god to go and "fix" the problem. And through the destruction of the egg, humanity is saved and born as new. It's also interesting how the girl's house/boat is similar to the Noah's Ark.
This was a really solid analysis. If there's one point of critique I could make it'd be the weakness/indecisiveness your written voice sometimes has. You do a good job of conveying the speculative nature of the film, so it's fine there, but you often sort of beg the question from the audience or assume their thought process. "One would think...," "you're probably wondering right now...," "you're probably thinking to yourself...," etc. It's used as a device to get to a point you want to express, and not totally ineffective towards that end, but is somewhat clumsy, serving as a distraction to take one out of the experience when their thoughts don't/they wonder if their thoughts do line up with what's being ascribed to them. I also think your establishment of "three main subjects of symbolism" is a bit tenuous, as they don't all really show up prominently throughout the analysis. For example the distinction between the old and new testaments as subjects of symbolism seems unnecessary, as there's no particularly clear line of division drawn between that biblical symbolism that draws from the old testament as opposed to the new. The structure your analysis ends up taking just seems to be pretty removed from these "three main subjects." All that said, the analytical points themselves are really interesting, and even if the framework or your manner of introducing them is sometimes a bit messy it doesn't interfere with that insight to any noteworthy degree.
Yeah I liked some of the perspectives but the writing definitely felt awkward. I think he tried to add a lot of fluffy transitions and extras when he should've just kept it to the main topic of the video, an analysis.
The movie to me seems like a metaphor for the struggle between knowledge and faith. It seems to be impossible to have knowledge and be innocent. So those innocents that exhibit faith without prior knowledge should be venerated.
I ... do not feel at all confident about notions that Oshii was being somehow consciously deceptive, or “bluffing,” or otherwise speaking to the contrary of meaning, by expressing that he, himself, did/does not understand the film (that he, himself, created). There is a limitless number of possibilities concerning how knowing that a lack of understanding can exist between someone’s conscious mind and anything else, even between a “person” and their own “self.” What is there which can assume a perspective that contradicts a broad statement which professes a lack of understanding? If the subject matter was more within the domain of the “sciences,” a more believable answer might emerge. Theorist/Academic X figures out the mathematical solution to a problem which has been expressed in mathematical terms. The solution works. But the person who figured out that solution does not understand it. Perhaps it is just not understanding how the mathematical expression represents any real thing or how it works. It is not at all difficult (especially in this age of specialization) to observe people engaging in all sorts of activities and even highly esteemed professions, with a superlative degree of skill and knowledge, without understanding _________. Knowledge and Understanding are neither mutually inclusive or mutually exclusive. In an all too common exchange, familiar to the present ear/culture, it is all too likely to hear, or read, “OMG! That’s amazing! How’d you do that?” “I have no idea.” These days, it takes a lot of pretense to really get deliberately placed symbolism to work at intentionally conveying a direct meaning, and an enormous degree of craft to conceal that pretense and “come off as seeming ‘natural.’” Where there is an art involved, a “true work of art” emerges from an audience being able to extract far greater, further, more diverse meanings and understandings from that creation than what the artist could have even possibly been aware of or intending, while creating it. The viewer becomes the completion of art and artist, while the work is a medium. That was the principle, or theoretical meaning that defined “The Surrealist Look.” It was not any particular “style,” set of techniques, or “genre,” but rather a measure of success or failure, (accomplishment), at creating a media/medium that transformed the way someone looked at it into a creative act. (If there seems to be something that is somehow ... “culturally resonant” in that, then it may be, perhaps, of some interest to look into the theory, methods, aims, ideas, concepts - “The Gist” - which formed/informed the writing of Carl Jung”s book, “Man And His Symbols.” Or, just for kicks (as Alan Watts might have put it), you could add on a further comparison, from yet another seemingly unrelated field of knowledge and understanding, from the same person, expressing knowledge vs understanding or knowledge and understanding, in two very different sorts of ways, without either disagreeing with the other. ruclips.net/video/QkhBcLk_8f0/видео.html ruclips.net/video/NM-zWTU7X-k/видео.html
It honestly can be interpreted in a prochristian way aswell, as jesus smashes the old traditional jewish religion with his cross and spawns a new and more numerous faith. It can be seen as how jesus denounces the old ways, as he was very vocal of how jewish scholars followed rules very strictly but loosing the meaning of them completely. Like it seemed that so many years have passed of tradition that they didn't remember what was the purpose of the comandments and the laws. The girl fills bottles of water all day and brings them back to the arc filled with dead animals, not knowing why she is doing it. But then jesus smashes her blind faith in the old ways and she gets baptized spawning many more believers with their own faith, and is remembered as a saint of sorts. It is also hard to ignore all the sexual connotations of the film, as the man arrived in very fallic tanks as a manly figure in the life of the inocent girl and then smashed her egg with his stick, leaving her to cry in horror and eventually grow into a woman. That could be a reference to a very common symbolism in christianity about seeing jesus and his church as husband and wife. And that the crucifiction of jesus and the birth of christianity as their wedding mention in various parables
The fishermen arent hunting for some random fish, it is one special fish, the Coelacanth. In my opinion this is not a symbol for Christianity, its a symbol for evolution.
I noticed it was a Coelacanth as well. It's an extremely specific choice and definitely has some meaning. Back when the living fish was re-discovered, for a while it was considered an anti-evolution symbol, since evolution skeptics said such a primitive creature should have evolved into a more modern shape like other fish.
@@latch78 yes. and when see screams it echo's inside that 'giant ark' which is not the ark but a repository of all history of life on the planet. As if it happens somewhere lost in time. Just another small event in a long long cold history.
great job script might i add for future reference the part where the girl crosses the meadow after leaving the arc, during that soundtrack multiple voices whisper along and since i do know some japanese, the line "sono hara inochi ni" (lit. for that life) comes up. whether this is meant for being devoted to the life of the egg or not is questionable but still worth to mention (since i will probably never make an analysis video ever haha)
Really? That's very interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. If I end up making additional Angel's egg videos in the future, I might add that in and point out your comment.
yeah! if you want, i suggest you finding a middle volume setting (not too loud). it may take a bit of a while for others not familiar with the language tho ; u ; you really dont have to unless you find it that way yourself; i just love speaking to people about angel's egg! aaaaa there are so many things like the small hands turning into grotesque, older hands (the symbolism of growing up; learning and adapting to the ugly world-- or truth?) and i also theorize the same thought as you (with the boy and the girl being two parts of oshii-san). in my perspective, the boy was once just like the little girl (white hands in the intro) but he grew accustomed to the truth (and thus his hands turned). the hands act as if to treasure something (the gestures haha) and there is just so many things and i just love this movie just kill me
16:12 i also see that dialogue as people saying that religion dictates some beliefs but it's actually people that put their own biased beliefs in the name of religion
14:30 Maybe the dichotomy between the girl and the man isn't just mankind vs the divine, but simple faith, ie. the egg, simple *childish* beliefs perhaps vs *organised* religion (ie. the usage of symbolic crosses and stigmata). The way religions are structured is what shatters faith, shatters the egg. A different interpretation of what is said at 17:38 18:00 "the birth of many new faiths" This got me thinking: starting with Jesus' death as a way for him to free us from the previous contract with god (the old testament), then the destruction of the egg by a cross serves the same purpose. It frees us from our faith, ie. the egg. But the girl, or mankind, failed the next step: rather than live in a faithless world many new faiths are born, as depicted and explained at 18:00 And then you have the last moments of the movie, where the man looks at god's "space ship", with its unmoving statues. It seems to suggest that god has the last laugh in the end: "you freed them and yet they still prefer my prison of faith." 19:16 I saw this translated as "Transfiguration" elsewhere, which has a more direct christian connotation.
Very cool look into this movie. Came here RIGHT after I had finished watching for the first time. I guess it's safe to say that I might have to look further into theology on Christianity, but your analysis mostly made sense to me.
I've never watched it but is this music in this movie? Is this meant to be a dark anime? I loved puella Magi Magica Madoka movies and they were dark and sinister but this video of this movie is really creepy...
I just watcched it and I could'nt understand ,i do get the idea that it is definitely related to Christianity, since i am not Christian, i couldn't get the whole thing, so thanks for the explanation
As I said at the end of the video, there is just so much to cover when it comes to angels so considering the video had already reached a whopping 20 minutes and took several months to edit, I decided to hold off any other interesting pieces I had on angel's egg for future video's. Considering how well my angel's egg video has done, I might just as well make those said videos in the future.
I wouldn't say the man's mind was clear (like God's). He was also lost, like the girl, he wasn't happy so his mind wasn't clear. He forgot the meaning of his life just like the girl but now she carries her egg and puts her faith into it so she has found her meaning. However he still feels lost and in the end crushes her faith. I don't think he has a lot in common with Jesus beside that cross-looking weapon and bandages on his hands
Thanks for your thoughts! One correction : We Confessional Christians affirm a physical resurrection of Christ’s Body, not that He left it behind (though He did descend into Sheol, spiritually, in time during His death). Hope that clarifies. Just watched Angel’s Egg today and was confused by it, so your analysis helped!
Script Weaver most of Japan are not even Zen Buddhist, buddhism makes up only 34% of the Japanese population and Zen Sect is 9% of that...lol Most of us Japanese are Shinto or Atheist. lol
Hey! Ok, so there's a couple problems with your statement. I never said most of Japan are Zen Buddhist. I said Japan is popularly consisted of Zen Buddhist. I'm not saying its a majority, I'm saying its commonplace. Which it is (At least, Buddhism is, not necessarily Zen Buddhism). Even going by your statistics, 34% is still 1/3rd of the entire population of Japan . That's not a small amount. Also, considering the fact we are talking about a film being produced in 1985 and culture/religion being very dynamic, I thought it'd go without saying that when I speak of "Japan", I'm referring to 1985 Japan. It wouldn't make sense to refer to today's current Japanese society for inferred cultural inspiration of a film made over 30 yrs ago. When looking at the stats for Japanese religion in 1990 (much closer to 1985 and with the important note that 1990 is before the Japanese Economic Bubble popped), you'll find that a whopping 84% of Japan observed Shintoism and Buddhism. www.public-library.uk/dailyebook/Japan%20-%20a%20Country%20Study.pdf I'd also like to add that even if most Japanese people don't identify themselves as "religious" they can still be considered spiritually involved considering many of them still practice spirituality/religious affiliation at a cultural level through weddings for Shintoism and funerals for Buddhism. In essence, its sort of to the effect of philosopher Daisetsu Suzuki's idea that religion is so infused into Japanese culture that just by being born Japanese and taking part in the rituals and observances, you become part of the ‘religion’. I think a good Suzuki quote for this would be "Obedience is an act of spirituality, and natural accordance with the Way. It is something that has passed through denial". In other words, as long as a person is performing the practices, even if its out of respect for the dead or in celebration of something spiritually significant, they are following the Way (Shintoism and to a greater degree, Zen Buddhism). Despite all that, I will admit, I did slip up when saying "Many were Zen Buddhist". Many were Buddhist, specifically the Mahayana branch of Buddhist (which Zen is one of the many sects of), but not the specific sect Zen solely (though Zen was practiced amongst some of those many Buddhists none the less). So yeah, I guess I goofed up there lol Thanks for watching!
Everything you said is wrong, stop using Wikipedia kid. You got caught bullshitting and now you're trying argue semantics. And Shintoism is practiced in the 80s was not even Shinto, it was a form of Judaism! As the Yamato people of Japan are direct descendants of the lost tribes of Israel! SHolom! ruclips.net/video/qqIiKVPdV1A/видео.html
Well you got the evolution chart right that's something. Nobody seems to get this movie whilst it's really not that difficult. The core of it at least. I guess the people who get it keep quiet. It is a very anti-christian faith movie. It exposes the core of it. The place they walk around in is supposedly 'the ark' but it's actually something else. The movie juxtapositions two things. The bottle, her life, vs the egg, her soon to be realised christian faith. The ark, a christian story, vs the whole history of life on the planet. If you want to get it take a good look at the fossile of that 'bird'..
Not trying to bash on you or your video here but this video was way too long for the few points you made. So much allegory in this that you just went with without ever questioning why. girl: pregnant mary, guy: christ. C'mon that's so on the nose. I liked the part about the tree of life though. Never thought of it like this. Keep it up.
if you look into isis (virgin mary) and osiris(jesus) and how the ark is the nightsky containing them.....yea look up manly p hall. i bet the director also read him or looked up the history of christianity.
the fish symbol also goes back to sacred geometry and Pythagoras who most likely learned of numbers and geometry from his studying in the east and egypt perhaps. he def learned numbers from qabalah.
Sry Dude. Chris Stuckmann's review owns you. Did you even think to mention how the younger man she meets basically is the incarnation of Jesus? Cloth around both hands where Jesus was crucified... The dude even caries a cross shaped sword on his shoulder.. how more direct can you be than that..? Angel Eggs obviously can have MANY interpretations.. you missed a few obvious ones.
This is a stretch. You're pointing out everything that can vaguely be associated with some religious symbol you can find and the result is potpourri of heterogeneous religious symbols.
right. oshii became a luciferian. Christ figure has been punished and left alone while sacrificed humanity achieved ascension ( luciferian enlightment - eye of horus blatantly visible ) ;p
The silhouettes of the fish are clearly coelocanths. I wonder if that has anything to do with the idea of evolution. Coelocanths are very similar to the first fish to climb onto land and the ancestor of us all. The tree of life symbology fits into this quite nicely.
I'm pretty sure it's faith. I can try to explain it as best as I can if you want. But if you think about it. It does make sense.
Yeah I think something similar every time I see it. I think linking that up with the whole religious interpretation (and the fact that the skeleton of the 'bird' we later see is very clearly based off an Archaeopteryx skeleton with the skull replaced by a human skull), it's clearly symbolic of antiquity and the way in which all living things being connected evolutionarily over the repeating expanse of time not only juxtaposes with the whole possibility of some kind of God or God-like entity that's anything like what's portrayed in scripture on a literal level, but also fits in with the whole rebirth angle as well.
I think you’re on to something when you say that the girl represents humanity and the man is divinity.
Personally, I think the girl represents the innocence of humanity TRYING to survive in an alternate world where the world did not survive the great flood. The man is an actual agent of divinity; he finds the innocent survivors and delivers them to the maker (the high-tech egg-like ship) while those who had no faith (fishermen) are left behind in a soulless state.
Actually those fisherman had most faith of all...but they were blind Faith...hence why they woke up each day to chase shadows of fish...they never catch a fish yet wake up everyday and chase the shadows...I believe that was blind Faith and he harm that can do
I am years too late, but also it would explain why the man never drinks any water or eats any food or even sleeps.
That's Quran.
The man are jesus, look the cross and his hands.
It makes sense that the director doesn't really know what it means. I think he had vague themes and emotions he intentionally placed but he probably doesn't have a clear picture himself.
What I saw in Angel's death and the many eggs that emerged was John 12: 24 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."
Thanks be to God
This verse is the first thing that came to my mind after I watched the movie also !!! I even wrote it in the comment section under the movie , before I saw this video and your quoting the same verse !!! PTL !!
I love that you mention a loss in faith isn't an over night thing. I had my crisis of faith at 21 and wasn't really OK with where it led me till about 25-26.
LunaSDominni I'm still not okay.
loss of faith implies the religion you followed could not answer your questions and did not have methods to alleviate your suffering,.
Artificial Intelligence, Man, is God.
I am Christian and never doubted my religion. If anything life experiences have brought me back to him. If you want to hear why just ask but rn to lazy to type out the story
Mine started at 14 and is still goin’ strong 12 years later 🙃
Script Weaver the scene with the fishermen may also stand exactly for the prosecution of Christians, by the Romans. As the fishermen are the Romans and Christians being the fish. This may mean that he saying that the roman could always hunt the Christians down but they would never really get rid of the religion.
Or the fish are just false prophets trying to follow but forever having nothing but destruction.
Schmityy722 i believe the one who caused destruction is the fisherman not the fish itself. The fish did nothing, they just there and wandering around do no harm to others. Only the fisherman are the one who destroying their own city by the own spear they threw. The same with people hunting down Christian, the Christian have done nothing wrong, they only introduce what is good and I know for sure everyone deep down inside know that what has been taught is good. It’s your choice whether you choose to follow it or not. But some blindly hate Christian to the point that they will bring destruction to anyone who dare to follow. There no religion was treated that way, only Christianity which should identify more about its truthfulness.
I believe the childish form of her is innocence, ignorance, like children whom live in a fantasy world but haven't wised up yet, she seems to become a adult when she drowns, i.e. becomes born again, thus in the end she matures as she figures out the truth through the Jesus figure.
I've recently watched Angels Egg and I'm fascinated by it.
I've looked up a couple of reviews and analysis videos and so far yours and one by Stuckman seem to be the better ones, nice job. Subscribed
I like how you analyzed the movie in the context of Mamoru Oshii's personal crisis of faith. Looking at the themes through a more objective lens is fine too, but I kind of feel like focusing on the broader philosophical ideas alone can unintentionally remove the storytelling aspect of the film. After all, I wouldn't have been all that interested in those broader ideas if I hadn't emotionally connected to the characters and world-building first, so I found your approach very refreshing!!
An interesting thought that he lost his faith in favour of sustaining his personal identity. Reminds me of what Jesus said “those who lose their life for me will find it” in that we find our identity by losing it for Christ.
She lost her life to find the man for that he is Jesus and she found herself
This needs more views. Your analysis makes more sense than a lot of others for this film.
This is the most comprehensive and enlightening reviews of one of the
most enchanting anime movies I have ever seen. I first watched Angels
Egg a couple of years ago and was immediately spellbound, although,
until watching your amazing review I never saw the religious connection.
I see it now and it has given a semblance of meaning for me for this
classic film. As a fallen christian I now empathize with Mamoru Oshii's
vision. Your review has opened my eyes and whilst I have watched it many
times I will forever see Angels Egg in a new light.
I don't really think it's fair to say the man has a factual mindset. For example, he can't remember whether he say the angel ("bird") or imagined it, until the girl shows him it's skeleton, proving this was a memory, not a dream.
I was never a Christian, but went to Sunday school a handful of times (mostly for Holiday reasons). I could have sworn the egg represented Jesus’s resurrection in the Easter Sunday school.
So finding the egg empty is like finding that Jesus will never return.
The egg actually didn’t represent Jesus resurrection but a new birth of our human being. Just like being reborn in the Spirit and later into the kingdom of heaven. The egg was found empty is a false egg, which I believe represent a false path, the path that will not lead her to the truth result. That why the man needs to destroy it to guide her what is the truth way. And turned out, the true way to lead to “heaven” and her true happiness is inside of her: the soul
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I’m sure the Sunday school teacher did say it did represent Christ (or at least the yolk part of the egg). Plus, it would be fitting for both charters to carry different parts of Christ life: the egg the girl carries that represents his life and the cross that the guy carries to represent his death.
Excelente job! This is by far the best analysis here in youtube. You were clever to make Oshi's life into the meaning in Angel's Egg. It would be great if you could do more analysis of this movie in the future (: !
I liked this analysis but there are three things I wanted to add in terms of symbolism.
1. Fish and fisherman are further tied to religion in a passage in the new testament in which Jesus tells two of his disciples he'll make them "fishers of men." This has to do with converting people to the Christian faith. I saw the scene with this in mind; the fisherman thought they were doing something worthwhile like how missionaries do, but in reality they were chasing shadows or wasting their time trying to spread the Christian faith.
2. The tree may not be the tree of life, but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This tree is also found in the garden of Eden in the book of Genesis and is where the serpent tempted Adam and Eve with fruit. If we're to tie the film's themes to Oshii's loss of religion, that tree would make more sense because he became privy to knowledge that was once forbidden that made him see the world in a different light just as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil did to Adam and Eve after they partook of its fruit.
3. When the girl dies, she looks like a woman. She even touches her stomach and reaches up to her breasts to display her physical development. Up until that point, she looked like a child. This may be a symbol for the death of faith as constituting the growth and personal development of Oshii.
An excellent analysis, one of the best on youtube.
I got interested in Angel's Egg when I heard about it, and I found it neat that it had this sort of symbolism at first, because I myself am a Christian, but when I heard that this movie was made right after the director had lost his Faith, I was a bit grieved by what the story would entail, and I can see how people have come to their conclusions a bit. But this is coming from a perspective that had lost its faith, and you as well have taken into account of such losing faith, as the director did. But Christianity doesn't necessarily do anything in and of itself for people to lose Faith. People do that to themselves when they lose hope and let people on the outside get to them.
The way I see it, the man carrying the cross is more like a persecutor of Faith. He discourages the girl whenever she speaks of her hopeful faith in the egg and the life that could have come from it. After all, it was the Pharisees who had put down Christ and nailed Him to the Cross to try shutting Him up, but in reality, that had brought about much more life, and as the girl runs off and lets go of her life after the egg had been smashed, this had only backfired and created many more eggs full of life that shall soon spring forth. This should be more symbolic of how Christ had given Life to those who would believe in Him and take His offer to have new life abundant.
In effect, it's the opposite of what your analysis was, and this is coming from somebody who actually knows The Faith in question here. Don't make assumptions and analyses on something you're looking at from the outside. Try seeing it from an inside perspective too, and you may see the opposite effect from that view.
Boomblox5896 wow thats great!
Yeah the problem I've seen with lots of reviews of Angel's Egg is that most people analysing don't have a solid understanding of theology and therefore miss many of the symbols. The director, despite losing his faith, clearly did have a solid grasp of theology.
Like you, I saw this in quite the opposite way. I think the man was someone who represented the director's personal struggle. He really wanted to believe and hope like the girl, but the outside world had hardened his heard to accepting it like she could so easily. He broke the egg out of frustration at himself, as well as out of curiosity as to the genuineness of her faith. The eggs that come from her mouth with her last breath seem to signify that the faith was inside her, and were based on more than just the physicality of the egg. Him seeing her in salvation confirms that he knows her faith was true. The ending leaves us guessing as to what his response will be.
I actually disagree a bit with you on the thing about the man. I think he the one who save her. Cause the egg, which is precious to her, bear nothing good for her both spiritually and physically. She has a strong faith indeed, the faith in believing that the egg will hatch because it is alive. However, the truth it is not. Would you think she will be happy hold on to what she believes is good and turn out it is not? The same mindset for those get addicted to drugs. They all begging for it, but can you just let them continue using it after knowing it is bad? So the man, after knowing the “truth”, has decided to set her free. If you noticed at first, when the girl dropped her egg, it was the man who came and brought it back to her saying: you should cherish what important “inside” (sorry if my quote is not right lol”, which hints to her that what important is not the egg she holding outside but many eggs inside of her that she hasn’t discovered. And indeed, it is painful when something we thought important was taken away even it’s for our sake, but there still hope ahead, as when she about to enter the next world, she was able to fulfill her utmost desire: bearing the living egg and believe it will hatch.
I think this movie got deeper than it seems. It’s not negative but somehow depicts pretty good what the journey of faith should be. As a person who Catholic since birth and starts following God by my own will 4 years ago with studying in Bible, this movie depicts a lot about how God sees things different than us. To almost anyone that doesn’t have faith, what they see is grief because of what has been taken away even though it is not truthfully good. While as for me, I felt like the girl has reached her ultimate goal, granted by God (through the image of the eye). Though she has false faith and suffer because of her method, but her innocence desire has nothing wrong, and to God it is true pure.
@@PhuongHoang-gm6xx To that I say not everything we hold so close is bad. Sometimes we need something to hold onto in order to survive and find meaning in life. After all, what are we supposed to do when there is no goal to follow? Wander around like some hollow and hopeless shell of a person? We as a human race thrive off of goals, whether we give it to ourselves or somebody gives it to us.
Boomblox5896 yes of course we all need to hold onto something to put our wholeheartedly believing that we will receive good results and bear fruits in the end. However as you can see not all things can help you reach the true fulfilnrss. Or I must say nothing in this world will give you eternal happiness. It’s only temporary. And it’s good to have temporary joy as well, as long as that temporary joy doesn’t stray you away from what is truly important. That’s why, as for me solely, the one I invested in and know I will receive good things in the end is God and only Him can make me happy. So hope you can also decide who and what you should choose to rely yourself on so you can receive fruitful results as well 😊 God bless!
ive watched AE for the first time last week, and do even found a analysis That Good, dude keep the great work and make material about other symbolic titles.
amazing, perfectly digestible and makes sense. I want more of these reviews! :3
This is, till this day, the best analysis of this film I have seen. Tanhk you for helping us understand a little bit more this beautiful movie.
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it's rather simple really;
The girl represents humanity and the egg the duality between purity and sin.
The man himself represents jesus christ, as can be evidently seen from him carrying a cross (or just a christian in general).
The man smashing the egg enables the transformation for humanity.
The girl chasing the man and falling into water represents a baptism, through which the girl is eternalised in heaven.
And all of the new eggs growing on trees represents humanity's new birth.
TLDR;
The girl carried a precous and fragile item and cared for it, but caused her to not use it for it's intended purposes (to shatter it).
The wandering man carrying a cross than comes in to rectify that issue.
He's literally send by heaven and god to go and "fix" the problem.
And through the destruction of the egg, humanity is saved and born as new.
It's also interesting how the girl's house/boat is similar to the Noah's Ark.
This was a really solid analysis. If there's one point of critique I could make it'd be the weakness/indecisiveness your written voice sometimes has. You do a good job of conveying the speculative nature of the film, so it's fine there, but you often sort of beg the question from the audience or assume their thought process. "One would think...," "you're probably wondering right now...," "you're probably thinking to yourself...," etc. It's used as a device to get to a point you want to express, and not totally ineffective towards that end, but is somewhat clumsy, serving as a distraction to take one out of the experience when their thoughts don't/they wonder if their thoughts do line up with what's being ascribed to them. I also think your establishment of "three main subjects of symbolism" is a bit tenuous, as they don't all really show up prominently throughout the analysis. For example the distinction between the old and new testaments as subjects of symbolism seems unnecessary, as there's no particularly clear line of division drawn between that biblical symbolism that draws from the old testament as opposed to the new. The structure your analysis ends up taking just seems to be pretty removed from these "three main subjects."
All that said, the analytical points themselves are really interesting, and even if the framework or your manner of introducing them is sometimes a bit messy it doesn't interfere with that insight to any noteworthy degree.
Yeah I liked some of the perspectives but the writing definitely felt awkward. I think he tried to add a lot of fluffy transitions and extras when he should've just kept it to the main topic of the video, an analysis.
Nothing was flawed
Luke S lol it's not an English essay it's RUclips. I think his analysis is pretty good and if it was too formal would it do good on RUclips
The movie to me seems like a metaphor for the struggle between knowledge and faith. It seems to be impossible to have knowledge and be innocent. So those innocents that exhibit faith without prior knowledge should be venerated.
Really makes you think. Good job Script.
Well done. This was very interesting.
I ... do not feel at all confident about notions that Oshii was being somehow consciously deceptive, or “bluffing,” or otherwise speaking to the contrary of meaning, by expressing that he, himself, did/does not understand the film (that he, himself, created).
There is a limitless number of possibilities concerning how knowing that a lack of understanding can exist between someone’s conscious mind and anything else, even between a “person” and their own “self.”
What is there which can assume a perspective that contradicts a broad statement which professes a lack of understanding?
If the subject matter was more within the domain of the “sciences,” a more believable answer might emerge.
Theorist/Academic X figures out the mathematical solution to a problem which has been expressed in mathematical terms. The solution works. But the person who figured out that solution does not understand it. Perhaps it is just not understanding how the mathematical expression represents any real thing or how it works. It is not at all difficult (especially in this age of specialization) to observe people engaging in all sorts of activities and even highly esteemed professions, with a superlative degree of skill and knowledge, without understanding _________.
Knowledge and Understanding are neither mutually inclusive or mutually exclusive.
In an all too common exchange, familiar to the present ear/culture, it is all too likely to hear, or read,
“OMG! That’s amazing! How’d you do that?”
“I have no idea.”
These days, it takes a lot of pretense to really get deliberately placed symbolism to work at intentionally conveying a direct meaning, and an enormous degree of craft to conceal that pretense and “come off as seeming ‘natural.’”
Where there is an art involved, a “true work of art” emerges from an audience being able to extract far greater, further, more diverse meanings and understandings from that creation than what the artist could have even possibly been aware of or intending, while creating it. The viewer becomes the completion of art and artist, while the work is a medium. That was the principle, or theoretical meaning that defined “The Surrealist Look.”
It was not any particular “style,” set of techniques, or “genre,” but rather a measure of success or failure, (accomplishment), at creating a media/medium that transformed the way someone looked at it into a creative act.
(If there seems to be something that is somehow ... “culturally resonant” in that, then it may be, perhaps, of some interest to look into the theory, methods, aims, ideas, concepts -
“The Gist” - which formed/informed the writing of Carl Jung”s book, “Man And His Symbols.”
Or, just for kicks (as Alan Watts might have put it), you could add on a further comparison, from yet another seemingly unrelated field of knowledge and understanding, from the same person, expressing knowledge vs understanding or knowledge and understanding, in two very different sorts of ways, without either disagreeing with the other.
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It honestly can be interpreted in a prochristian way aswell, as jesus smashes the old traditional jewish religion with his cross and spawns a new and more numerous faith. It can be seen as how jesus denounces the old ways, as he was very vocal of how jewish scholars followed rules very strictly but loosing the meaning of them completely. Like it seemed that so many years have passed of tradition that they didn't remember what was the purpose of the comandments and the laws. The girl fills bottles of water all day and brings them back to the arc filled with dead animals, not knowing why she is doing it. But then jesus smashes her blind faith in the old ways and she gets baptized spawning many more believers with their own faith, and is remembered as a saint of sorts.
It is also hard to ignore all the sexual connotations of the film, as the man arrived in very fallic tanks as a manly figure in the life of the inocent girl and then smashed her egg with his stick, leaving her to cry in horror and eventually grow into a woman.
That could be a reference to a very common symbolism in christianity about seeing jesus and his church as husband and wife. And that the crucifiction of jesus and the birth of christianity as their wedding mention in various parables
The fishermen arent hunting for some random fish, it is one special fish, the Coelacanth. In my opinion this is not a symbol for Christianity, its a symbol for evolution.
I noticed it was a Coelacanth as well. It's an extremely specific choice and definitely has some meaning. Back when the living fish was re-discovered, for a while it was considered an anti-evolution symbol, since evolution skeptics said such a primitive creature should have evolved into a more modern shape like other fish.
@@stonetic2515 i don’t think there’s a concrete conclusion to be gained as much as it’s trying to carry the theme of skepticism and faith
There was NOTHING inside the empty shell. An empty egg.....
Is that why she was so bewildered...not because the egg had been smashed...but because there was nothing inside? 🤔
@@latch78 yes. and when see screams it echo's inside that 'giant ark' which is not the ark but a repository of all history of life on the planet. As if it happens somewhere lost in time. Just another small event in a long long cold history.
Because that egg is a false egg. The true egg is inside of her. Just like whatever outside can not bring you true happiness but what inside, your soul
Very good stuff.
I’m still not finding a satisfying idea as to what her matured death / release of eggs means; “birth of new faith” is awfully vague.
great job script
might i add for future reference the part where the girl crosses the meadow after leaving the arc, during that soundtrack multiple voices whisper along and since i do know some japanese, the line "sono hara inochi ni" (lit. for that life) comes up. whether this is meant for being devoted to the life of the egg or not is questionable but still worth to mention (since i will probably never make an analysis video ever haha)
Really? That's very interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. If I end up making additional Angel's egg videos in the future, I might add that in and point out your comment.
yeah! if you want, i suggest you finding a middle volume setting (not too loud). it may take a bit of a while for others not familiar with the language tho ; u ;
you really dont have to unless you find it that way yourself; i just love speaking to people about angel's egg! aaaaa there are so many things like the small hands turning into grotesque, older hands (the symbolism of growing up; learning and adapting to the ugly world-- or truth?) and i also theorize the same thought as you (with the boy and the girl being two parts of oshii-san). in my perspective, the boy was once just like the little girl (white hands in the intro) but he grew accustomed to the truth (and thus his hands turned). the hands act as if to treasure something (the gestures haha) and there is just so many things and i just love this movie just kill me
16:12 i also see that dialogue as people saying that religion dictates some beliefs but it's actually people that put their own biased beliefs in the name of religion
14:30
Maybe the dichotomy between the girl and the man isn't just mankind vs the divine, but simple faith, ie. the egg, simple *childish* beliefs perhaps vs *organised* religion (ie. the usage of symbolic crosses and stigmata). The way religions are structured is what shatters faith, shatters the egg. A different interpretation of what is said at 17:38
18:00 "the birth of many new faiths"
This got me thinking: starting with Jesus' death as a way for him to free us from the previous contract with god (the old testament), then the destruction of the egg by a cross serves the same purpose. It frees us from our faith, ie. the egg. But the girl, or mankind, failed the next step: rather than live in a faithless world many new faiths are born, as depicted and explained at 18:00
And then you have the last moments of the movie, where the man looks at god's "space ship", with its unmoving statues. It seems to suggest that god has the last laugh in the end: "you freed them and yet they still prefer my prison of faith."
19:16 I saw this translated as "Transfiguration" elsewhere, which has a more direct christian connotation.
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E essa análise ficou muito foda.
when his hand ran up the tre i thought that he must of had a exceptionally long arm
Can we just get to the part where I’m told about the cycle of fire and how I need to decide whether or not to rekindle it.
Very cool look into this movie. Came here RIGHT after I had finished watching for the first time. I guess it's safe to say that I might have to look further into theology on Christianity, but your analysis mostly made sense to me.
great video
Not knowing one's own identity is an integral part of the human condition. Those who don't grapple with this are either very stupid or very wise ;)
I always thought the fishermen represents the persecution of christianity in ancient jerusalem
The tree of life is the milky way galaxy in the night time sky with the heavenly host being the stars.
It's an evolution chart
Groovy egg.
I've never watched it but is this music in this movie? Is this meant to be a dark anime? I loved puella Magi Magica Madoka movies and they were dark and sinister but this video of this movie is really creepy...
Yes, the music featured in this video are from the film's OST and yes, its somewhat of a grim and somber anime.
Script Weaver no wonder it looked so old too. Just noticed this came out in 1985! I wasn't even born yet! Lol
Fantastic video
Hum... about the egg/cross symbology, did you check this new symbol they form when come together? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus_cruciger
you should make more videos :) good analysis
Wonderful video!
Fantastic review thanks you
I just watcched it and I could'nt understand ,i do get the idea that it is definitely related to Christianity, since i am not Christian, i couldn't get the whole thing, so thanks for the explanation
the girl starts and ends the film within the mechanical sphere, deus ex machina.
Yes
Its not a coupe out, its about the occult, so its literally unknown.
You never even mentioned the giant floating orb full of statues praying. What gives?
As I said at the end of the video, there is just so much to cover when it comes to angels so considering the video had already reached a whopping 20 minutes and took several months to edit, I decided to hold off any other interesting pieces I had on angel's egg for future video's. Considering how well my angel's egg video has done, I might just as well make those said videos in the future.
I see the destruction of the egg as a symbolic abortion of Mary. And further represents his faith being destroyed.
I wouldn't say the man's mind was clear (like God's). He was also lost, like the girl, he wasn't happy so his mind wasn't clear. He forgot the meaning of his life just like the girl but now she carries her egg and puts her faith into it so she has found her meaning. However he still feels lost and in the end crushes her faith. I don't think he has a lot in common with Jesus beside that cross-looking weapon and bandages on his hands
Thanks for your thoughts!
One correction :
We Confessional Christians affirm a physical resurrection of Christ’s Body, not that He left it behind (though He did descend into Sheol, spiritually, in time during His death). Hope that clarifies.
Just watched Angel’s Egg today and was confused by it, so your analysis helped!
6:50 Angels are doves!
A lot of these feel like stretches to me. It's more of a theory video than an analysis.
Watch magnetic rose
I have it on DVD with the rest of Memories. Excellent Satoshi Kon piece as always.
Now, I do like the points you make, the editing is superb and the source material is interesting; you could do better #ggnore
I really appreciate your interpretation of Angels Egg with you knowledge of Christianity
I wish i could understand english completely ...
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No problem, hope it helps
Script Weaver most of Japan are not even Zen Buddhist, buddhism makes up only 34% of the Japanese population and Zen Sect is 9% of that...lol Most of us Japanese are Shinto or Atheist. lol
Hey! Ok, so there's a couple problems with your statement. I never said most of Japan are Zen Buddhist. I said Japan is popularly consisted of Zen Buddhist. I'm not saying its a majority, I'm saying its commonplace. Which it is (At least, Buddhism is, not necessarily Zen Buddhism). Even going by your statistics, 34% is still 1/3rd of the entire population of Japan . That's not a small amount.
Also, considering the fact we are talking about a film being produced in 1985 and culture/religion being very dynamic, I thought it'd go without saying that when I speak of "Japan", I'm referring to 1985 Japan. It wouldn't make sense to refer to today's current Japanese society for inferred cultural inspiration of a film made over 30 yrs ago.
When looking at the stats for Japanese religion in 1990 (much closer to 1985 and with the important note that 1990 is before the Japanese Economic Bubble popped), you'll find that a whopping 84% of Japan observed Shintoism and Buddhism. www.public-library.uk/dailyebook/Japan%20-%20a%20Country%20Study.pdf
I'd also like to add that even if most Japanese people don't identify themselves as "religious" they can still be considered spiritually involved considering many of them still practice spirituality/religious affiliation at a cultural level through weddings for Shintoism and funerals for Buddhism. In essence, its sort of to the effect of philosopher Daisetsu Suzuki's idea that religion is so infused into Japanese culture that just by being born Japanese and taking part in the rituals and observances, you become part of the ‘religion’. I think a good Suzuki quote for this would be "Obedience is an act of spirituality, and natural accordance with the Way. It is something that has passed through denial". In other words, as long as a person is performing the practices, even if its out of respect for the dead or in celebration of something spiritually significant, they are following the Way (Shintoism and to a greater degree, Zen Buddhism).
Despite all that, I will admit, I did slip up when saying "Many were Zen Buddhist". Many were Buddhist, specifically the Mahayana branch of Buddhist (which Zen is one of the many sects of), but not the specific sect Zen solely (though Zen was practiced amongst some of those many Buddhists none the less). So yeah, I guess I goofed up there lol
Thanks for watching!
Everything you said is wrong, stop using Wikipedia kid. You got caught bullshitting and now you're trying argue semantics. And Shintoism is practiced in the 80s was not even Shinto, it was a form of Judaism!
As the Yamato people of Japan are direct descendants of the lost tribes of Israel! SHolom!
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Ok, now your just shitposting.
Losing faith, leaving religion was the best thing I’ve done so far. I’ve never felt better.
True story bro. Enjoy life for what it is. What it is it'sup to you.
analysis kills the beauty of it
Well you got the evolution chart right that's something. Nobody seems to get this movie whilst it's really not that difficult. The core of it at least. I guess the people who get it keep quiet. It is a very anti-christian faith movie. It exposes the core of it. The place they walk around in is supposedly 'the ark' but it's actually something else. The movie juxtapositions two things. The bottle, her life, vs the egg, her soon to be realised christian faith. The ark, a christian story, vs the whole history of life on the planet. If you want to get it take a good look at the fossile of that 'bird'..
Not trying to bash on you or your video here but this video was way too long for the few points you made. So much allegory in this that you just went with without ever questioning why. girl: pregnant mary, guy: christ. C'mon that's so on the nose. I liked the part about the tree of life though. Never thought of it like this. Keep it up.
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if you look into isis (virgin mary) and osiris(jesus) and how the ark is the nightsky containing them.....yea look up manly p hall. i bet the director also read him or looked up the history of christianity.
the fish symbol also goes back to sacred geometry and Pythagoras who most likely learned of numbers and geometry from his studying in the east and egypt perhaps. he def learned numbers from qabalah.
theres phoenixes in the other eggs.
for the egg smashing look up taurus/bacchus breaking the egg and signaling a new year, which would also explain why theyre in darkness as in winter.
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Sry Dude. Chris Stuckmann's review owns you. Did you even think to mention how the younger man she meets basically is the incarnation of Jesus? Cloth around both hands where Jesus was crucified... The dude even caries a cross shaped sword on his shoulder.. how more direct can you be than that..? Angel Eggs obviously can have MANY interpretations.. you missed a few obvious ones.
aah art always doing a disservise to philosophy with trash symbolism
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This is a stretch. You're pointing out everything that can vaguely be associated with some religious symbol you can find and the result is potpourri of heterogeneous religious symbols.
right. oshii became a luciferian. Christ figure has been punished and left alone while sacrificed humanity achieved ascension ( luciferian enlightment - eye of horus blatantly visible ) ;p