Angel's Egg

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grimmer
Saturday, 28 May 2022

Didn’t get anything which was going on, but that’s the point. I’m not a massive fan of minimalist narrative but the art direction was beautiful and the movie definitely was a mystery. Which I enjoyed it more than I did.

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congratulashayla

Angel's Egg

Uma jovem garota vive isolada num mundo onde, aparentemente, não existe mais vida abundante. Ela vive na companhia de um ovo, ovo esse que ela acredita ser uma criatura mística e na companhia de outra pessoa sozinha no mundo ela caminha no mundo aguardando o chocar desse ovo. Aqui não temos diálogos expositivos, na verdade aqui nem contexto possuímos. É um longa de 1h11 onde as imagens contam a história. O storytelling de Tenshi no Tamago, ou Angel's Egg, é um filme que utiliza do surrealismo e das possibilidades que uma animação possui, de contar uma história de um mundo cinza, com cenários e personagens cinzas, mas que com foco na jornada de uma jovem carregando um ovo, enxerga a esperança de vê-lo chocar e um milagre lhe surpreender. Junto a isso temos outro perosnagem mais velho que traz um contraponto mais misto. Uma mistura de cinismo com um Q de esperança em reencontrar uma ave e uma árvore que lhe fora uma visão mística. Utilizando do cenário destruído, personagens de fundo sem rosto, o longa mostra como uma sociedade pós conflito bélico, vive na sombra (literalmente) de se manter viva seguindo um padrão predatório. Caçando sombras de coisas gigantes como forma de se auto afirmar ou por medo de algo desconhecido. No mais Tenshi no Tamago é um excelente exemplo de um surrealismo japonês que utiliza de uma animação belíssima e ótima composição de elementos em tela para criar uma história não linear, que não possui um fio motor aparente, mas que encanta com seu visual e as poucas passagens de texto muito bem estruturadas.

1d ago
breakfastcowl

Angel's Egg

Haunting. Mesmerizing. An incredibly personal, poetic film which reveals nothing and everything; that rarer cinema which opens itself in proportion to how you open yourself. This was ringing a whole helluva lot on certain frequencies in my own life, and then I read about how Oshii left the Christian faith prior to embarking on this. So. There's my angel's-eggs-over-not-so-easy. But that wouldn't cover the half of it. Any viewer will likely have to wade through their own drowned worlds in the end.

2d ago
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mpamfi

Angel's Egg

je suis pas très sûr de ce que je viens de regarder mais je suis subjugué.

2d ago
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arethas

Angel's Egg

On second viewing there’s a couple things I like more about this film, firstly the ark upside down in the water.  Adding on the religious themes present already it basically ties everything up and visually represents the religious existentialism of feeling like you did everything right but still being abandoned by God and the tying into the survivors clinging on to the last bit of hope/faith even though time and again it shows the bird/angel that’s meant to save them has died too. God says you will be destroyed unless you have faith and get on the ark but seemingly that isn’t a guarantee either. It’s no surprise our male lead feels nothing for the future. Secondly, in retrospect after watching a couple other Oshii films (Ghost in the Shell, Jin-roh, Patlabor 2), I started thinking about the catching fish section and its relation to war and the military. Tying into the overall theme of blind faith, these faceless soldiers even in an apocalypse continue to do a worthless service chasing shadows like that’s all their programmed for regardless of result. There aren’t any people around in the city either, so who are they fighting/catching the fish for exactly? Maybe they believe if they continue to do their job, salvation would come, but it’s all smoke and mirrors. Additionally with how our main male lead wears the uniform it suggests he broke out of that programming and saw the despair that surrounds them. His carrying of the cross maybe points towards being a messiah figure but seeing as it’s all mechanical and not wood, it’s like a distortion. If he’s the messiah, with no one around, who’s he supposed to lead either? Or is the distorted messiah figure meant to be the killer of the egg because ultimately keeping up hope and faith in this cruel world abandoned by God is a fool’s errand and he’s meant to reveal that to us?

4d ago

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