[EVA] Is that the real Asuka

[baroncini]

Hi and thanks for the answer.

Do You mean that the try of Shinji to strangle Asuka is aimed to feel the
physiscal contact he always refused with people and her "weak" reaction (the
caress) is her first try to open her heart to someone else?
You can be right. But how can You explain the theory I read on a fansite (I
do not remember which one) who stated that "the Asuka beside Shinji is only
a sacrified copy, created to satisfy the disire of Shinji's soul".

If it is so, I think that the message left by Anno is too much downbeat and
negative.

Furio
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ebj" <ebj.nerv at flashnet.it>
To: <evangelion at eva.onegeek.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [EVA] Is that the real Asuka


> > Hi to everybody.
> >
> > I saw the ending scene of "End of Evangelion" and I would like to ask to
> someone
> > better informed than me: is the Asuka laying beside Shinji the "real"
Asuka?
> The
> > passive way she reacts to Shinji and the emotionless face she shows let
me
> think
> > that "there is something wrong" with her. Asuka would certain had
smacked him
> or
> > shouted "What are You doing upon  me, You pervert!".
> >
> > Can someone explain me what I didn't catch.
>
> The movie happened. During the events we see in the movie, everyone had to
> confront with themselves and the others and decide whether to live on or
loose
> themselves into nothingness, although a central role was given to Shinji
> specifically. Shinji and Asuka are apparently the first ones that have
chosen to
> live on facing reality and what pain it can bring in hopes of also finding
> happiness, and they have done so because they have accepted the
possibility of
> reaching out for others and being sought. However this is not a painless
and
> immediate process and their reactions during that scene are immediate
proof of
> this, yet also prove that they have some commitment to it. Asuka's
reaction is
> not what I'd call "passive", it may not be the lash-out you figure above,
but
> that was part of her shield against the others, so it'd be out of place
here.
>
>
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