[EVA] /<EVA> Volume nine

[Patrick Yip]

     PY @ TOKYO
     
     
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
     
> What are we, Puritans?
> The scene wasn't disgusting, just candid. If it disturbs you, you could 
> always turn down the volume. x_x
     
But Misato refers to Ritsuko thinking she's disgusting (21, the end.) In 
     
## In EOE, Shinji was forced to confront the action between Misato and 
## Kaji. And he thinks it's disgusting too, but then Asuka counteracts 
## by saying "When I grow up, I might want to do that".
     
Eva, sex is not a method of procreation, nor an act of love, but of 
bestial coupling.  
     
## I think it's deeper than that. I don't feel that sex is presented 
## as just animal lust thing, at least not in the western sense where 
## you just pick up somebody in the pub and "do it". Those who engage 
## in sex certainly have feeling towards each other, as well as all 
## the jealousy that comes with it. I think sex in EVA is presented
## as one big issue you have to face in life, starting from menstruation 
## and masturbation when you come of age. For human, sex is not just
## bestial, and I think EVA covers more aspects of sex than the 
## bestial part.
     
When you see Naoko and Gendou kissing in 21, it's not a reflection of 
love, it's animal lust.  
     
## This is arguable. Perhaps at that moment, there is spontaneity in 
## the act in which surely lust played a part. However, I don't think 
## Naoko treated the relationship lightly.
     
If you think about Ritsuko being inerrogated inb the nude, it's a form of 
humiliation.  In the movies, I believe the audience is meant to feel 
revulsion at Shinji's masturbating at Asuka's bedside.  
     
## Strangely, I didn't feel that. I was shocked at first, but that
## was because I was still treating Shinji as a kid and the anime as,
## well, yet another anime. But when I realised what happened (I didn't
## realize what happened when I watched D+R, perhaps because I couldn't
## believe what I had seen) when I watched EOE, I quickly came to
## sympathize with what he did. But that's just me. I am sure that
## many in the audience would feel disgusted by what Shinji did. As for
## me, I think his act is understandable. He asked for Asuka's help,
## He got her "help" in a warped way. At the end he acts like what he
## has always been: doing something which hurts nobody but himself.
     
The idea in Evangelion is in that world, sex is not used for love, but as 
a way of releasing tensions. 
     
## Surely it is one of the "uses" of sex. Yet it is just one of them, 
## There are other aspects of sex covered in Evangelion. In fact, 
## Evangelion itself could be said to be a big metaphor on sex. 
## The LCL-filled cockpit can be interpreted as the embryo in womb. 
## The retrieval of unborn Angel in the volcano can be viewed as
## some kind of abortion in action (the crack of volcano through
## which EVA-02 entered looks suspiciously like a female sex organ) 
## At the beginning of EOE (oh.. spoiler again), on the signboard 
## hanging on a lamp-post half sunk in water you can see very 
## clearly the words "Obstetrics" and "Gynaecology" in Japanese.
## The reference to sex as part of the picture (or your life) is
## very obvious. 
     
     
____________________________________________________________________________


The information in this Internet email is confidential and may be 
legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access 
to this Internet email by anyone else is unauthorised.

If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution 
or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited 
and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice 
contained in this Internet email are subject to the terms and conditions 
expressed in any applicable governing ING Barings' terms of business or 
client engagement letter.
        

____________________________________________________________________________