“i’ve seen a tree like this somewhere… when was it? so long ago that i’ve forgotten… under a sky where the clouds make sound as they moved. the black horizon swelled and it grew from a huge tree. it sucked the life from the ground… and its pulsing branches reached up, as if to grasp something…”

i’ve been holding off from logging this one for a while now, because i don’t really know how to put this movie into words. a couple years ago, i had never watched anime in my life - probably because i wasn’t that interested in film in general, but also because the anime i was exposed to like one piece or naruto really didn’t fit the ideal of what i find engaging. after watching perfect blue, i’ve actually enjoyed them a whole lot more - and angels egg has to be one of the best ones i’ve watched so far. ‘angels egg’ follows a angelic like girl who runs through dark alleyways while holding an egg, and this guy chases her. the plot is quite underwhelming, but sometimes underwhelming is really what you need. there’s little to no dialogue throughout its entirety, and the meaning is highly ambiguous, and fully up to interpretation. i’m not going to lie, this movie put me on the edge of sleep - but i don’t really intend that as an insult, as it feels like it’s supposed to ease your mind, almost hypnotise. it’s fully dream-like, to the point where i wondered if it was the film i was watching, or just already in deep sleep. it’s haunting to sit through, and its narrative seems nonexistent. it lacks a traditional narrative, and instead feels like an experiment in hand-drawn animation which seems to emulate a moving painting. its fragmented, with tons of religious references and themes of existential dread and lost faith. its hard to explain, but it felt like another dimension while watching this - through it’s minimalistic sound design + dialogue, and the lack of colour. there’s no one meaning that you could bring to this anime, the egg could resemble faith - and the emptiness could symbolise its lack of existence or belief. while that’s my personal favourite interpretation, there’s a whole lot more, and i understand why, this is a true fever-dream. the pacing is truly slow, but i prefer that sometimes - especially in comparison to the cliched, loud and unoriginal action sequences which are truly hit or miss. the landscape we travel through, like i said before, feels apocalyptic and gothic - high monochromatic, which soothes the brain. it provides visual storytelling over everything else, and as i say in many other reviews - visuals are highly important to me. it’s a surreal escape into this inhabited land of darkness and hopelessness - exploring the decay of humanity with eerie sound and high quality animation. i really didn’t know how to rate this, between the 4-4.5 area, but i figured it was effective enough to achieve its score (which will probably change in a couple hours)

“i’ve seen a tree like this somewhere… when was it? so long ago that i’ve forgotten… under a sky where the clouds make sound as they moved. the black horizon swelled and it grew from a huge tree. it sucked the life from the ground… and its pulsing branches reached up, as if to grasp something…”

i’ve been holding off from logging this one for a while now, because i don’t really know how to put this movie into words. a couple years ago, i had never watched anime in my life - probably because i wasn’t that interested in film in general, but also because the anime i was exposed to like one piece or naruto really didn’t fit the ideal of what i find engaging. after watching perfect blue, i’ve actually enjoyed them a whole lot more - and angels egg has to be one of the best ones i’ve watched so far. ‘angels egg’ follows a angelic like girl who runs through dark alleyways while holding an egg, and this guy chases her. the plot is quite underwhelming, but sometimes underwhelming is really what you need. there’s little to no dialogue throughout its entirety, and the meaning is highly ambiguous, and fully up to interpretation. i’m not going to lie, this movie put me on the edge of sleep - but i don’t really intend that as an insult, as it feels like it’s supposed to ease your mind, almost hypnotise. it’s fully dream-like, to the point where i wondered if it was the film i was watching, or just already in deep sleep. it’s haunting to sit through, and its narrative seems nonexistent. it lacks a traditional narrative, and instead feels like an experiment in hand-drawn animation which seems to emulate a moving painting. its fragmented, with tons of religious references and themes of existential dread and lost faith. its hard to explain, but it felt like another dimension while watching this - through it’s minimalistic sound design + dialogue, and the lack of colour. there’s no one meaning that you could bring to this anime, the egg could resemble faith - and the emptiness could symbolise its lack of existence or belief. while that’s my personal favourite interpretation, there’s a whole lot more, and i understand why, this is a true fever-dream. the pacing is truly slow, but i prefer that sometimes - especially in comparison to the cliched, loud and unoriginal action sequences which are truly hit or miss. the landscape we travel through, like i said before, feels apocalyptic and gothic - high monochromatic, which soothes the brain. it provides visual storytelling over everything else, and as i say in many other reviews - visuals are highly important to me. it’s a surreal escape into this inhabited land of darkness and hopelessness - exploring the decay of humanity with eerie sound and high quality animation. i really didn’t know how to rate this, between the 4-4.5 area, but i figured it was effective enough to achieve its score (which will probably change in a couple hours)

One of the best 75 films I’ve ever seen.

Angel’s Egg by Mamoru Oshii is a contemplative masterpiece filled with biblical allegories that touch on themes ranging from the destruction of faith to memory and existentialism.

I have read the Bible several times, and while watching this film, many ideas that the Bible had once evoked in me came back. The most obvious ones were those of the Ark and the Flood. In this desolate universe, something similar happened, but here the bird never returned, and humanity perished.

The egg, the egg represented potential life and innocence. The girl sees the egg as if it were an angel’s egg, representing a promise from God or a future life. Her relationship with the egg made me feel blind faith: despite living in a universe without God, she continues to believe and believes that the egg is the only hope that remains for a greater life.

The soldier is more cynical; he is doubt and reason. His cross-shaped weapon may mean that he has a corrupted worldview, one that is distant from faith. That is why he is tempted to see what is inside the egg, and it is there that he destroys it. He destroys what the girl protected with her soul. He destroys the hope of a full life simply because he wants to know what is inside, as if it were the forbidden fruit. And here we arrive at this: the egg had nothing inside. And when the girl realizes this, she joins the other people who have assimilated into this empty world, far from the Lord’s grace. She turns to stone. The egg revealed no life.

I love to think of this film as part of a trilogy. The trilogy of the Earth without God.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Begotten
Angel’s Egg

Each one with a very different central idea, but sharing one particular theme: the absence of God.

100/100

One of the best 75 films I’ve ever seen.

Angel’s Egg by Mamoru Oshii is a contemplative masterpiece filled with biblical allegories that touch on themes ranging from the destruction of faith to memory and existentialism.

I have read the Bible several times, and while watching this film, many ideas that the Bible had once evoked in me came back. The most obvious ones were those of the Ark and the Flood. In this desolate universe, something similar happened, but here the bird never returned, and humanity perished.

The egg, the egg represented potential life and innocence. The girl sees the egg as if it were an angel’s egg, representing a promise from God or a future life. Her relationship with the egg made me feel blind faith: despite living in a universe without God, she continues to believe and believes that the egg is the only hope that remains for a greater life.

The soldier is more cynical; he is doubt and reason. His cross-shaped weapon may mean that he has a corrupted worldview, one that is distant from faith. That is why he is tempted to see what is inside the egg, and it is there that he destroys it. He destroys what the girl protected with her soul. He destroys the hope of a full life simply because he wants to know what is inside, as if it were the forbidden fruit. And here we arrive at this: the egg had nothing inside. And when the girl realizes this, she joins the other people who have assimilated into this empty world, far from the Lord’s grace. She turns to stone. The egg revealed no life.

I love to think of this film as part of a trilogy. The trilogy of the Earth without God.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Begotten
Angel’s Egg

Each one with a very different central idea, but sharing one particular theme: the absence of God.

100/100

don’t ask me what this movie is about, i don’t think i’ll ever truly figure it out

don’t ask me what this movie is about, i don’t think i’ll ever truly figure it out

Having a list of new favorite movies is easy, You don't even need to always determine a rewatch for at least some of them to know how much they mean to you at a personal basis.

To determine what is your definitive all-time favorite bar none is way harder than your think, Because the amount of films you've seen isn't all to the sum of the billions of others you didn't just watch, but could've found to fit your own taste as favorites let alone one that is YOUR favorite.

Even currently, you could look at this right now and laugh at who i will become from the favorites you see in my profile and it's not the ones I have here from the very text you are reading from, To this extent.

I really couldn't decide on how truly impactful and awe inspringly resonating Angel's egg was to me when I first heard about it and got myself to watch it, Just from the clear understanding i grew up with then to who i am now, It was only something I've heard about from a video from Chris stuckmann, Only watched it enough to peak my intrest and once I had letterboxd for the first time I motivated myself to get right into it along with other things, Afterwards the film only was an afterthought and not necessarily something that appealed to my overinduglence into films that many youtubers like schaffrilas shoved videos in down my intrest just to have me think they are more profound than they really are with children's media (Whole can of worms for another log: his angel's egg one liner is just disturbingly disingenuous)

However since that very time, I only allowed myself to grow more intrest with the way film is handled subjectively and with personal impact that a viewing holds differently, The 2nd time I watched angels egg fits exactly into that with much more admiration for it's engulfing atmosphere and thought provoking "philosophy" that made me fully convinced that this is peak animation material just for the way I experienced it in comparasion to everything else.

The thing is, Dependly on the way i view both film and my own life aside is still progressed to the way this film truly sinked in all this time to me.

I think a film like mulholland drive is still the very top of my all timer categories and nearly no film could ever come close to that. But if you had to tell me on how the film meant to me personally, Than I'd just struggle not just with words but with the way I describe my own discovery and intrugue with the film because there's not much history with me and Mullholland drive because simply, I watched it to binge more lynch, I ended up appreciating it and engaging with it on a personal level with more rewatches, But I didn't have that much of a deeper history with lynch or even mullholland drive itself other than I knew him clearer and clearer by year, Even right now I'm still thinking about why lynch is special to me. But with a Movie like Angel's Egg, It somehow had the power to linger with grace for the amount of time I've watched it since. I drew so much after watching it for the first time still figuring out my artistry and intruige with the things I put work into, Watching more films way ahead at this point like 2001: a space odyssey or Come and See really hammered home the same type of atmosphere I gained from watching angels egg even if it isnt with intentional coincidence, The whimpering chors all over the air, The stares of our titular tagainists, The scope of even the smallest little things, And personally the way it was made mostly by hand, Not just literally but figuratively as you can see the way things move from far away or even closely.

Angels egg isn't just a deep piece to think about or a bleak depiction of our world at large, It's also immaculately magical and relatively an achievement in emotionally investing me into it's darker yet exposed backdrop even the scene that lasts for seconds can leave me breathless or in tears, As karsten states for His lynch ranking, Movies are special not for the way you puzzle out their complexity but for the way you feel them. And as much as I can mock karsten exactly the way he can take films so seriously and also with insincerity, I think he's made that point well with age espically now and definitely with Angels egg.

In all it's stark glimpses, Never have I ever connected to a film that has been around me for the longest amount of time I had intrest in anything really, it just goes to show that even with the best kind of art could you find one that at leasts comes closer than you realize.

So there you have it, THE all-time favorite, one of the best animated films, one of the greatest movies Period, I pity all of you for not getting the chance to see it in a theater Fuck you NBC–Universal.

Having a list of new favorite movies is easy, You don't even need to always determine a rewatch for at least some of them to know how much they mean to you at a personal basis.

To determine what is your definitive all-time favorite bar none is way harder than your think, Because the amount of films you've seen isn't all to the sum of the billions of others you didn't just watch, but could've found to fit your own taste as favorites let alone one that is YOUR favorite.

Even currently, you could look at this right now and laugh at who i will become from the favorites you see in my profile and it's not the ones I have here from the very text you are reading from, To this extent.

I really couldn't decide on how truly impactful and awe inspringly resonating Angel's egg was to me when I first heard about it and got myself to watch it, Just from the clear understanding i grew up with then to who i am now, It was only something I've heard about from a video from Chris stuckmann, Only watched it enough to peak my intrest and once I had letterboxd for the first time I motivated myself to get right into it along with other things, Afterwards the film only was an afterthought and not necessarily something that appealed to my overinduglence into films that many youtubers like schaffrilas shoved videos in down my intrest just to have me think they are more profound than they really are with children's media (Whole can of worms for another log: his angel's egg one liner is just disturbingly disingenuous)

However since that very time, I only allowed myself to grow more intrest with the way film is handled subjectively and with personal impact that a viewing holds differently, The 2nd time I watched angels egg fits exactly into that with much more admiration for it's engulfing atmosphere and thought provoking "philosophy" that made me fully convinced that this is peak animation material just for the way I experienced it in comparasion to everything else.

The thing is, Dependly on the way i view both film and my own life aside is still progressed to the way this film truly sinked in all this time to me.

I think a film like mulholland drive is still the very top of my all timer categories and nearly no film could ever come close to that. But if you had to tell me on how the film meant to me personally, Than I'd just struggle not just with words but with the way I describe my own discovery and intrugue with the film because there's not much history with me and Mullholland drive because simply, I watched it to binge more lynch, I ended up appreciating it and engaging with it on a personal level with more rewatches, But I didn't have that much of a deeper history with lynch or even mullholland drive itself other than I knew him clearer and clearer by year, Even right now I'm still thinking about why lynch is special to me. But with a Movie like Angel's Egg, It somehow had the power to linger with grace for the amount of time I've watched it since. I drew so much after watching it for the first time still figuring out my artistry and intruige with the things I put work into, Watching more films way ahead at this point like 2001: a space odyssey or Come and See really hammered home the same type of atmosphere I gained from watching angels egg even if it isnt with intentional coincidence, The whimpering chors all over the air, The stares of our titular tagainists, The scope of even the smallest little things, And personally the way it was made mostly by hand, Not just literally but figuratively as you can see the way things move from far away or even closely.

Angels egg isn't just a deep piece to think about or a bleak depiction of our world at large, It's also immaculately magical and relatively an achievement in emotionally investing me into it's darker yet exposed backdrop even the scene that lasts for seconds can leave me breathless or in tears, As karsten states for His lynch ranking, Movies are special not for the way you puzzle out their complexity but for the way you feel them. And as much as I can mock karsten exactly the way he can take films so seriously and also with insincerity, I think he's made that point well with age espically now and definitely with Angels egg.

In all it's stark glimpses, Never have I ever connected to a film that has been around me for the longest amount of time I had intrest in anything really, it just goes to show that even with the best kind of art could you find one that at leasts comes closer than you realize.

So there you have it, THE all-time favorite, one of the best animated films, one of the greatest movies Period, I pity all of you for not getting the chance to see it in a theater Fuck you NBC–Universal.