Ignore any and all claims of 'satire' or 'incisive psychological analysis'. Much like his Western counterpart, David Lynch, Anno uses esoterica solely as a means of misleading uneducated viewers into believing that Evangelion bares any relation to historical world culture. If symbology is to be employed in an artwork, it must substantively relate to that which it signifies and it must also expand upon the signified content. It must dialogically - and more importantly, dialectically - relate to that which is signified. Anno's haphazard use of this kind of symbology instead amounts to a 'private' language which both feigns substance and reinforces the depressive-narcissism Anno seeks to aestheticise. As a result, Anno has created a flock of lonely young men who perceive art as a means of seeking comfort in their own misery. You would do far better to read The Bible or Civilisation and Its Discontents than devote any of your time to this.
It is certainly among the most socially destructive artworks of the past 30-40 years.
@nadenrhys This comment is how thinking you're smart but having not an ounce of imagination feels like. No one cares about your absurd rules about how art "must" work.
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Ignore any and all claims of 'satire' or 'incisive psychological analysis'. Much like his Western counterpart, David Lynch, Anno uses esoterica solely as a means of misleading uneducated viewers into believing that Evangelion bares any relation to historical world culture. If symbology is to be employed in an artwork, it must substantively relate to that which it signifies and it must also expand upon the signified content. It must dialogically - and more importantly, dialectically - relate to that which is signified. Anno's haphazard use of this kind of symbology instead amounts to a 'private' language which both feigns substance and reinforces the depressive-narcissism Anno seeks to aestheticise. As a result, Anno has created a flock of lonely young men who perceive art as a means of seeking comfort in their own misery. You would do far better to read The Bible or Civilisation and Its Discontents than devote any of your time to this.
It is certainly among the most socially destructive artworks of the past 30-40 years.