Angel's Egg is Kind of Very Scary | Video Essay
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- The true nature of Angel's Egg has been long analyzed and explained by fans of Oshii and fans of experimental animation. But few make the comparison to Cosmic Horror and German Expressionism, the two larger themes that seem to permeate the film.
Patreon: / isitreallythatscary
References:
1. Cavallaro, Dani (2006). The Cinema of Mamoru Oshii: Fantasy, Technology and Politics.
2. Matt Cardin, Horror Literature through History, Pg 164 - 165
3. Ruh, Brian (2004). Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Music Used:
0:00 - 1:28 Angel's Egg. Different God
1:28 - 4:05 Angel's Egg. Main Theme
4:05 - 5:43 Angel's Egg. Memories of Water
5:43 - 7:24 Angel's Egg. Egg's Dream
7:24 - 9:50 Angel's Egg. Beyond the Window
9:50 - 10:51 Angel's Egg. Sea Bed's Town - Фільми й анімація
I think the movie does existential dread really well. You can feel the authors fear/anxiety because he now questions his faith which in turn means he's questioning humanities purpose. At least thats what I got
Yeh
It looks like some of my dreams. It FEELS like some of my dreams. The dark, vaguely European city. The fossilized skeleton in the rock face. The mysterious machines and plants. The sense of foreboding and loss. The broken religious themes. The isolation. The actions with no apparent purpose. It's straight out of my dreams and I'm mesmerized every time I watch it.
Very good video. I like how you don't claim to understand the movie but openly say that it's scary because that's the one thing we know for sure
One of the scariest scenes was the one when the girl was asleep with the man next to fire, with the music, it puts you in an atmosphere of anticipation of something terrifying to happen, and it's extremely calm, and it feels like this scene never ends at some point
I've literally never heard of Angel's Egg before, but I saw this in r/videoessay and decided to check it out. I'm glad I did. This is a really well-crafted video. I'm a huge German Expressionism fan so I really liked those comparisons. I look forward to seeing more of your stuff in the future! Keep it up!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
A very interesting and rather unusual take on the movie. Thanks for your insight and perspective.
I just can't subscribe to the notion of Oshii "not knowing what the movie is about"
-I've heard the exact line over and over again in all sorts of reviews and interpretations on the movie and I just call that statement pretentious at best. I don't believe in the idea of creating art (maybe paintings could be an exception because they are basically still frames) and "not knowing" what it is about. You don't hire a handful of people who go through the excruciating process of animating a very detail-oriented (and thus also expensive) movie like this one, without at least having some sort of vision about it in the first place
-He has had (and probably still has) an idea what the movie is roughly about, he might just not want to force his interpretation of said movie onto the viewer. That would be an entirely different statement though.
I enjoyed this analysis but I can not stay away from the notion that this movie is about faith and religion, so many biblical references
Great video man, this is one of my fave anime films and films ever. I think it’s severely overlooked. Glad to see great content like this springing from it. As deep as some of the interpretations of this film are it certainly has a voyeuristic,creepy dystopian feeling to it. So im very glad I came across this video!
Very good video, really strong quality visuals and editing, you deserve more subscribers.
It FEELS good to have no solution in that movie, no clear end, no revelation and it's best like that.
Mystery and Alertness.
i can rarely sit through analysis videos as i have a short attention span but i made it to the end of this easily it was really well done and interesting
We're so glad :)
Great video. I just finished watching the film today and this is a great analysis
Kind of you to say. Thank you!
This is by far one of the best analytical videos on an anime I’ve seen in a minute
Hey man, you make great content! I watched all of your videos the day they came out, and I'm surprised you haven't blown up more. Just keep on that grind and I'm sure you'll make it big. If you don't mind my asking, what video software do you use to edit? I've been wanting to get into making video essays, but it's kind of difficult in imovie, which I use to publish music on my chiptune channel. Thanks in advance, and please keep up the good work!
I'm so glad to have viewers like yourself, and yeah, it's worth making for me if it means even a few people get to see it :)
As for editing software, I use a mix of Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects, which you can get from the Adobe Creative Cloud. If you're a student they offer a student subscription which is significantly cheaper. Premiere Pro is easy to learn as well, as for certain effects that you might see in this video many of them are made in After Effects, so I would recommend looking into that. Many video essayists however will be able to make a fantastic essay with minimal editing, look at Nerdwriters latest video (he could have easily made that in iMovie.) So I guess what I'm saying is that if you want to make them, just do it, even with iMovie, it's all about your script, and once you make one, the next one is easier! Good luck and let me know if you ever upload an essay and I'll check it out :)
Apparently this was the inspiration behind Hollow Knight and Dark Souls.
*one of. Berserk is another big influence as well.
Really good video man keep it up
Only just watched the movie tonight and this video, amazing job man you deserve a lot of credit ❤
I liked your analysis, congratulations!
The view of the girl through the window is my second favourite shot in the whole of cinema. Whenever a director chooses a camera angle within the fourth wall (ie where it feels like we're looking at events from a point within the set) it creates the impression, at least to me, that there is somebody as yet unseen looking at events. Often this is used in horror movies to give a mobster's PoV, but here it is used simply to unsettle, making us think that behind those windows anyone, or anything, could be watching.
Great video man. Cosmic horror was created by Chambers with his The king in yellow stories. Subscribed.
wow this is so good
I love this movie. The world it’s set in is so, so sad. I don’t think I’d wander through this empty world with awe. It feels dreadful and hopeless, like it is really truly over. Her persistence to protect and carry the empty egg, the endless and dedicated collection of glass jars of water…it’s heartbreaking and ominous. I am an atheist and it reminds me of religious people only being able to offer prayer in the face of terror, only to receive more and more of the horror with no answers or changes.
The girl pursues her faith differently than the fishermen. They run chaotically and greedily all over town destroying things and never catching a fish... The girl carrying the egg is illuminated and glowing in most shots also she collected the water repeatedly almost joyously. I think her introduction to the tree story was like eve waking up. While the man is a priest but not divine. Hes pretty much obsessed with watching her and watching that eyeball in the sky. I still feel like he raped her/violated her. Taking away what was her choice to attempt to hatch the egg versus breaking it open. He did it without her consent. There is no proof that the egg would not have hatched had they been patient. He was impatient after seeing the Angel on the wall aka breaking the egg. There must be some sort of japanese social undertone here I am missing interpretation on but picking up vibe wise. His choice to force the girl/holiness to the crux of rape/egg break. Reminds me of the pressure of Rod Reiss in attack on titan. Rod Reiss obsesses over the titan power and royalty but never wants to become the titan himself. Instead hes some crazy ass follower of the titan power. Another example of this social awkwardness around witnessing divinity but not embodying itself by the person chasing it - is Shinji Ikari's dad. He obsesses over the human instrumentality project... but is willing to watch/obsess over Rei becoming lilith. or Shinji being the vehicle to divinity. Aka like willing sacrifice... but never man enough to do the job himself or to embody the power they obsess over. Its very japanese....
I also feel like the characters are in some sort of time loop. He stares at the eye at the beginning. Which is noted to have the goddess statues in prayer. He reveres that eye god thingy. They are statues...almost like buddist statues you see at temples. I feel an overlay of Buddhism and Christianity here. maybe he stares often enough and does the loop so many times hes forgotten. However the girl offers something different. He chooses to willingly sacrifice her egg because he knows shes different. By the end of the movie.. he doesnt care if he possibly drowns in the water. He is witnessing that a change to the eye has indeed occurred. The man has forced his physical tangible will / faith and has witnessed physically that the girl physically has died and some how reincarnated / transmutated spiritually onto the eyeball with her own differentiated shrine which represents some sort of honor achieved.
The eyeball is God. He will never be eternally honored on that eyeball. She returned to "source" with the egg." hes still just standing all alone on that beach. He isnt greedy like the fishermen, he is patient but physically to involved in the tangible world of his faith and forces it. The girl didnt force but just faith the egg would hatch. Because of his force he will never return to source/peace. The girl didnt force it - she returned to source and has peace.
He will never experience true enlightenment. He said the bird never returned to noah's ark. Yet the girl believes the bird is within the egg. There is hope still she believes. By sacrificing her... she promulgates hope further in more eggs. Hes a sort of destructive force always stomping out faith aka like churches and clergy. His cross actually weighs him down.
*searches this up*
*sees it has 666 views*
oh god. oh fuck. oh no
I never viewed the ending as an island: to me it was a tipped ark
Hey bro he aint marooned on a beach in the void, hes literally on the capsized Noahs Ark
Duuuddeee needs more views
Very cool video!
i'm looking forward to what you'll create next . Sub and bell ;)
Hmm maybe I was to quick to judge, I think a few year ago I was bored and saw this anime and the style perks my interest. But the first scene of the chicken egg and the horror made me turn it off thinking it was one of those raster films that my animation professor made us watch and criticize the movie (forgive me it been a long time so I forgotten the name of the movie) where the whole film was animators drawing over the live action video mainly the actors and actresses leaving the background alone. The style use of darkness are both extremely close but seeing the clips you shared it nothing like that film at all
ua-cam.com/video/lWy6O2A6hUs/v-deo.html
Angels Egg has always reminded me of this song and of when I was strung out on drugs. Sober now, but Angels Egg and the song in the link both give me this anxious nostalgic depression.
So beautifully written, great video! This is why I find religion, specially the Abrahamic ones, to be so arrogant. Because they claim to know the one and only "true" answer of all that we don't know about the Universe. And not knowing is not something to be ashamed of. Moreover, it shows just how humble we are getting confronted with the immensely vast Universe, that's it's completely indifferent to us.
This is not are all the case. I can only speak for Judaism here, and even then I shall not delve into specifics, as I am no authority on the Tanakh, nor will I pretend to be. However, one only needs to graze the surface of Jewish thought to realize one thing:
Anyone who says that they have the definitive answer to a question in Judaism is trying to sell you something.
A core aspect of Judaism is debate, and even the most orthodox sects who believe that all truths can be found in the Torah will still readily admit that this is an ongoing process. In Judaism, blind faith is actively discouraged.
I hope you learned something here!
I share the same idea of interpretation of the movie. It's supposed to be surrealistic but in fact it's as realistic as reality that surrounds us. What does that mean? Well on a basic everyday level of biological and cultural needs we all understand what's going on in our lives but in total - pushed to the very limits and boundaries of comprehension - we can't answer why do we need to do this or that and even if we give ourselves some kind of answers we will not grasp what's beyond limits of our lives and sight. Thus it feels that we are swimming in a sea of symbols, acts, situations of many meanings - like the two characters in the movie: they talk about birds, eggs, fishes; they act meaningful but only to some extent - like we do. When asked who are they and what's they origin and purpose - they have problems with answering. Just like us - we only know to some extent where are we from and where are we going but we never get the full answer. We always chase the horizon's line but we can not go beyond it... So we dive in our surrealistic subconsciousness in dreams that have and haven't got meanings and we loose control in far distances of cosmos... maybe it's only raining outside?
I mean if you told me it's a horror before watching it i would belive you
Can we find this movie?
This movie has a weird liminal quality to me, like it takes place within the dream of the director and it ends with him symbolically loosing faith in god and the eye floats up into the sky symbolising being free and revealing the world to be a fossilised arc, fossilised like it no longer has any use and has been dead for a very long time, like how some choose to ignore science like evolution and base all of their beliefs off a book written 2,000 years ago, remaining in ignorance, frozen in time like a fossil
You know this film kind of reminds me of Hollow Knight
"maybe instead they are watching us", and that was the point where I checked out.
It may or may not be scary, but to argue about whether it is or not, is to miss the point. What it is -- irrefutably -- is five-alarm misogynistic. I mean, c'mon son: A couple of fifty-something guys put their heads together and wrote and directed a story in which a female child finds an egg, then hides it under her petticoats and walks around with it while a dystopian world tries to hurt her at every turn? Oh, and she's BAREFOOT?!?!? Dude, you made a really excellent UA-cam video here, went to a lot of trouble, when all you had to say was, "I completely missed the point of this movie."
feminism is gay
Lmao I know this movie is up for interpretation but damn this interpretation is so wrong
@@flataffect I'm glad I made you laugh but if you sincerely believe that I misinterpreted a film in which anonymous masculine protection is being sought by a barefoot pre-teen with an egg hidden as a bulge under the front of her clothes, then you are not just a moron; you are a *toxic* moron. Stick to Bruce Willis movies and talk radio, friend; they are very, very obviously more your speed.
CinemaDemocratica you wouldn’t last 2 weeks without men.
@@CinemaDemocratica ma'am...is just an esoteric film.