…avour of something so uncomfortably candid and familiar reinforces 3.0+1.0’s deconstructive aspects. We quite literally watch as one of the franchise’s most iconic moments is reduced to something akin to a college-film-level production. Here is a film falling apart before our very eyes, viewers and characters alike thrown through a gauntlet of images and impressions equal parts evocative and honest. By stripping away the magic of the moment, Evangelion 3.0+1.0 creates new magic in its place: the magic of moving forward. The magic of rejecting the franchise in favour of the work. Evangelion becomes Evangelion once agai…
It’s Okay to Be Happy : Bye-Bye, All of Evangelion
Reid Braaten - TheMamaLuigi
