An unnamed young girl, carrying a large egg, wanders about a surreal, nightmarish
post-apocalyptic world collecting water in glass bottles. A man (also nameless),
carrying a cross over his shoulder,...( read more
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It's interesting to think about for a little while before you realize that it means absolutely nothing. Mamoru Oshii has an awesome imagination, though. He just needs to learn how to write. Avalon was a hot mess, and this follows suit.
Whereas Mamoru Oshii's films are usually dense in both plot and ideas, Angel's Egg is almost completely devoid of plot. The director's most personal film, it is almost entirely told through surrealistic images of nature and architecture, twisted through shadow and music to...( read more)
I rate this as a beautiful film where images play up the emotions heavily, where the subtext is both obvious and hidden. I personally found this beautiful, a film in my opinion feels heavily to be talking about religion and modernity and acceptance and loss all at the same time i...( read more)
"Angel's Egg" is a rather static anime with about enough substance for a twelve-minute short. What it lacks in story, it fails to make up for with more than mildly inventive imagery, and it ends up looking like a Japanese art school student's effort to emulate Rene Laloux's much ...( read more)
Slow, quiet, surreal, and inexplicably sad, too. Quite the collaboration between Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano. Beautiful.
Hm... the famous 'Angel's Egg.' Mamoru Oshii directing and Yoshitaka Amano's character design. I don't know why I haven't seen it yet.
The film that lifts part of this is much better. - In the aftermarth angels never sleep
The perfect movie. Slow, surreal, layered with meaning and possibly meaningless. Emotional and heartless, profound and horribly simplistic. Oshii's little mystery box is a present never unwrapped.
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