“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)
