Thread 282999640

How do you learn to interpret difficult stories like Angel's Egg?

>>282999640 (OP)
If nothing comes to mind while watching and after thinking about it then it's likely worthless anyways. So I simply don't.

Just make up whatever you like and call anyone that disagrees stupid.

In many cases it's simply a matter of knowing all the extra bits. Like Anno originally studying to become a priest, but (as so often happens when people are taught how the religious sausage was made) loosing his faith and dropping out before making this movie about it.

>>282999640 (OP)
watch varied things, have an open mind, read books etc

>>282999640 (OP)
Vibes

>>282999640 (OP)
Didn't Oshii say Angel's Egg was a bunch of shit he threw together without that much thought to it? If he doesn't know then you likely never will either.

>>282999640 (OP)
You grow up in a society that taught you to read literature and care about politics/philosophy instead of playing video games and masturbating for 16 years of your life.

i watch video essays on youtube

>>282999640 (OP)
Oshii is a pretentious dickwad coasting on the free money available in the bubble economy. Shinkai in the same era would run circles around him

>>282999640 (OP)
I forget a lot of the story already but this brown faggot is horrible. The one thing she had and loved was her egg that she carried around in a way that made her look pregnant. Then he starts harassing her but eventually gains her trust. However, when she goes to sleep, he rapes her and destroys the egg. Without her egg, she kills herself. Then the smug fucker looks at her statue amongst the collection, implying he has done this sort of thing many times before. He couldn't handle that she still held on to youth and had to force his shitty doomer mental retardation onto her. She could've continued to live happily with her egg and collect water. But no, he had to make her equally as miserable as he is. I swear he first confronts her in the scene where she is peeing too. He waits until she can't run away to attack.

>>282999766
Anno wut

>>282999640 (OP)
>Angel's Egg
>difficult
come back when you try to read Ulysses by James "Fart Fetish" Joyce

>>283004667
The brown guy is a christ-like figure, he destroys the egg because it represents hollow faith, while it is true that he is an asshole for destroying her egg, I'd like to believe that he does it out of a sense of wicked mercy rather than evil. The giant machine could represent the people who have ascended to heaven and left the ruined world behind.

In what way is angel egg difficult?

>>283004667
>when she goes to sleep, he rapes her
How can anyone be this retarded
>>283000088
Basically what it was, just shit thrown to the screen to look cool (and it worked) but nonsense at the end of the day.

>>283006026
Also, she is waiting, or rather living for something that will never come, the egg will not hatch because no new life can grow in that place.
She is like the people in the ark that have forgotten about the dove. The fact that the girl can't tell him what's inside the egg is indicative of her faith in it, she doesn't know whats inside of it either.

>>283006034
It is hard not to get hard while watching it

>>283006034
I'm guessing op felt stupid watching it because he didn't get the story. When really I don't think there's much story to get, only vibes to receive and art to marvel at. I could be wrong though

>>282999640 (OP)
If I can't understand your story after 2 viewings, then the story is bad.

>>283006373
This really is something that's art was the main focus. Psuedo intellectuals overanalyzing everything really has ruined art. Nowadays you even get stuff where a creator throws out random stuff and essentially has the community write for them because of this.

>>283006930
Like NGE.

>>282999640 (OP)
"Wow cool animation."

>>282999640 (OP)
in most cases the heckin deep stories are ripping off some classic so just go through the first semester of some lit degree and you have like 90% of fiction.

>>283006930
ok we get it you hate thinking

>>282999640 (OP)
They teach you close reading skills in highschool, so long as your nation's politicians aren't actively orchestrating mass illiteracy in the proletariat by slashing funding for public education while dumbing down the curriculum