{"id":3462,"date":"2009-02-09T22:31:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T06:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:39:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:39:02","slug":"evangelion-10-your-are-not-alone-masayuki-2007-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3462","title":{"rendered":"Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (Masayuki, 2007): Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Travis Rennacker<\/a>. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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The film was made in 2007 and was released to Japanese audiences a full year before it premiered in the US.\u00a0 Like most anime, Evangelion fits into a broad story arch.\u00a0 Before it was a film it was a TV series, and before it was a TV series it was a comic book.\u00a0 Over the years the story and characters developed. \u00a0Evangelion 1.0 enters the timeline mid stride. Director Masayuki releases the film from the recap shackles. Unencumbered Evangelion 1.0 spreads its wings (great allusion right?).<\/p>\n

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (Masayuki, 2007)<\/span> has a very interesting\u00a0tempo. \u00a0From the beginning the film is fast passed. It literally hits the ground running.\u00a0 The opening scene starts off in the middle of a battle scene. Through Shinji (main character) we are instantly whisked away and into Tokyo-3 a bastion of humanity and hope for humanity.<\/p>\n

In a world were things called “angels” descend upon Tokyo-3 with the sole goal of demolishing the city. \u00a0Our main character, Shinji, is a young boy who’s father runs the operation of “Nerv,” a special department that is in charge of the safe keeping of Tokyo-3. \u00a0Shinji is manipulated by his father to fight the “angels.”\u00a0 The only way to fight the very powerful “angels” is to use a mecha (reminiscent\u00a0of a\u00a0transformer that\u00a0is stuck in their more human forms, without the ability to turn into a car or other craft). Using this giant machine Shinji wins the battle against the “angel” \u00a0but is not thanked for his bravery and valor but is instead\u00a0blamed\u00a0for the destruction that the fight caused. \u00a0 Through further trials and tribulations Shinji is looking for a reason to go on.\u00a0 He is bored with life and looks for a meaning.<\/p>\n

Again the film relies on outside knowledge of the series to make sense of the combat and its motives and all of the SYMBOLISM (there was a ton).\u00a0 \u00a0Without prior knowledge of the Evangelion universe it is easy to get lost (which happened to me).\u00a0 The story is important but not the only thing worth while in this film. \u00a0 The style of imagery and feel of Japanese animation makes for an engaging couple of hours.\u00a0 Though the story lost me a few times one thing I did not find myself doing was yawning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Travis Rennacker. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The film was made in 2007 and was released to Japanese audiences a full year before it premiered in the US.\u00a0 Like most anime, Evangelion fits into a broad story arch.\u00a0 Before it was a film it was a TV series, and before it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44138,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/44138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}