recurring visual imagery: misato + commanding
evangelion: 2.22 you can (not) advance, dir. hideaki anno (2009)
evangelion: 3.33 you can (not) redo, dir. hideaki anno (2012)
recurring visual imagery: rooftop encounter
evangelion: 1.11 you are (not) alone, dir. hideaki anno (2007)
evangelion: 2.22 you can (not) advance, dir. hideaki anno (2009)
recurring visual imagery: charge + spilled blood
end of evangelion, dir. hideaki anno (1997)
Anno doing what he does best: iterative foreshadowing. Misato, Ritsuko, and Kaji are the only characters that die by the gun, and these two scenes hint at all three deaths with laserpoint exactness. Look at the position of Misato’s gun: she aims at the back of Kaji’s head and the crown of Ritsuko’s spine. Ritsuko later dies from a gunshot wound through the spine, and well – Kaji’s corpse isn’t shown, but you can make the required leaps of imagination.
Misato confronts both Kaji and Ritsuko in the deepest belly of NERV, which is where she will eventually die. Both Kaji and Ritsuko cross-reference each other as they double-cross. Consider the history between the trio and you have what is best summed up by Kureishi: “Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”
recurring visual imagery: distance + gendo’s office
neon genesis evangelion, dir. hideaki anno (1995)
One arm across the side - Misato’s trauma in visual language, the inescapable and self-recurring cycle of lived pain. It starts bloodied and ends bloodied.
recurring visual imagery: sleepover + aerial view
neon genesis evangelion, dir. hideaki anno (1995)
fixation (german: fixierung) is a concept in human psychology to denote object relationships with and attachments to things in general persisting from childhood into adult life.
neon genesis evangelion, dir. hideaki anno (1995)
recurring visual imagery: downtime + recreation
neon genesis evangelion, dir. hideaki anno (1995)