What. The. HELL?

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I guess he's talking about this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206827/ which apparently re-uses footage from Angel's Egg but changes the story, for example the man and the girl is now brother and sister. I haven't seen it but it sounds kinda crappy...

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I think that from what I've read about about it, the way to understand the appeal of Tenshi no Tamago is not to think of it so much as film, or even as animation, but more as a surrealist painting come to life. For example, when was the last time you heard someone describe the work of Dalí or de Chirico as "making less sense than watching Evangelion with LSD"?

Just thought I’d get back to you on your comment. I wonder if you'll still be interested a year and a half on but anyway.

I thought the film dealt with the hypocrisy of ideas/ideologies/faith/belief; how the very thing that kills a person one day, emulates them the next.

This film is obviously soaked in symbolism; pretty much everything has a reason. The buildings show the last failed world of the last ideal, lying in ruins - in this case the European/Russian pinnacle with the pictures of the proletarian, statues and other remnants of past centuries still hanging around.

The soldier assisting in enforcing rule but doesn’t understand why he does it. He follows without question, forgetting why he was doing it in the first place. He carries out his mission without emotion, never smiling, maybe because he has forgotten how to, or has never done so.

The guys who chase fish that can not be killed, almost trying to chase out something that is only imaginary, something that can only exist in thought, something that could never exist in reality without people and consciousness - the fish out of water would die, but the guys still keep chasing it, it’s a parallel to ideas without people.

The angel is a child who shows innocence, beauty, faith, love, anything unhindered, untainted. She is the new generation, but is left desolate, isolated in an empty world in the aftermath of the last war of ideas. She wonders on her own, unable to communicate, people running around her, oblivious that she even exists.

She places her love in the egg, the symbol of the future, something new, inspiring hope, but fragile and in need of love, attention. She also places her faith in another man, the first one to acknowledge her. She is betrayed by the very person she trusted, that person being the one who works for the very ideals that can not allow the egg to exist.

But in her death she puts forward more tiny eggs that then bear fruit and before the ship of the old ideals leaves, she is already one of its god/hero’s.

This may help; maybe I’m talking rubbish, who knows.

My thoughts having just watched it for the first time:

Angel's Egg | 10/10

The best Anime film I've ever seen. It's a 71 minute Surrealistic art piece that could or could not be about a lot of things. There are themes of innocence, cyclical life, the fall of ideals, loyalty, memory, and many others. I was reminded of Tarkovsky throughout the entire thing, most notably the final shot, which seems almost intentionally related to the final shot of Solyaris (1972). This is from the director of Ghost in the Shell and the Art Director of many Final Fantasy games.

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http://www.shompy.com/matthew-dyess/l41743_ukuk.html (Top 20 Films)

SPOILERS!!!




I figured that in the film they are living on top of Noah's Ark (shown in intro credits and the ending), and are too afraid to actually move out into the rest of the world. Why are they too afraid? Because of traditions. The giant sphere of statues I think represented traditions of old, and the man with the staff was the keeper of traditions.

The little girl represented innocence, and her egg represented her virginity and hope for the future. The tale I felt was a morality tale. Should I trust people who I don't know? The man believed so much in tradition that he believed the only way to know what was in the egg was to break it. He had no hope, and had to see for himself. He had no faith. He was the opposite of the girl, who had a childlike faith.

This breaking of her egg symbolized a metaphorical rape, and when she committed suicide, her body became a woman's, symbolizing that she has lost her innocence from the "rape." It was the rape of hope and faith, in a sense.

However, the girl was the one who was right. She believed in hope, and as she died, she gave birth to many eggs, to more faith and hope. Her hope prevailed over her demise, even though she became another statue on the sphere of traditions. Another victim, yet a bittersweet victory.

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I saw it while High and it sure as hell did not make any sense

but I still liked it!

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...