Evangelion
Muito pessoalmente, anime(ou animé ?) não é algo que me chame atenção a ponto de gostar, mas que Evangelion deve ser das melhores coisinhas vindas desses lados, é e sem quaisquer dúvidas.
Acção, drama, filosofia(existencialismo muito presente), psicanálise, morte, ciência, vida, fantasia, etc etc etc..
Só visto mesmo :$
Aviso à navegação: Evangelion é uma série que se gosta muito ou se não gosta mesmo nada. Uma generalização um pouco “pão-pão-queijo-queijo”, mas é o que costuma acontecer.
Para quem não viu(e para quem viu), vejam estes vídeos feitos a partir da série:
PS: não resisti, eu gostei (:
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28/01/07 at 23:06
Evangelion Freak! :P
Mete masé ai os patinhos q akilo é que e fixe! :P
30/01/07 at 10:37
[at]wikipedia:
Existential themes are heavily relied upon throughout the entire series, particularly the philosophies of Jean Paul Sartre and Søren Kierkegaard, focusing on individuality and consciousness, and especially, freedom, choice, and responsibility. For Sartre, humans ultimately exist in an abandoned and free state. There is no essential truth about what human beings want to be or ought to be- instead each person must find their own identity and their own purposes. This incredible freedom, in a way, makes us “condemned to be free,” because our actions and choices are our own and no one else’s, which makes us responsible for them. We are constantly making decisions and choices, whether to continue doing something or to stop and do something else. Being aware of this fact, can bring on despair or anguish; and typically we try to avoid the consciousness of our own freedom.
Sartre’s position is in direct contradiction with Freud’s. Freud believed that we are not in control of ourselves, but are rather at the mercy of primordial unconscious mechanisms which drive us. Sartre found such theories dangerous. He felt human passions arise not from the animal element of human nature, but from the fact that human beings are not merely animals or objects, and not merely minds or free subjects either, but always both. In the series, even the mecha Evangelion units turn out not to be machines; Unit 01 moves without a pilot to protect Shinji, and it can fight without the aid of an external power source when it goes berserk. Eventually, it is learned that its external armor is actually to restrain its freedom and to bind it to the control of NERV, and that they are not just machines or animals, but have souls. To act as if one is only an object or a label, or that if one changes the facts about oneself that they can change who they are, is what Sartre calls bad faith. In the series for instance Ritsuko has dyed her hair blonde as if this fact changes her identity as well; Shinji calls himself a coward as if that is an excuse that makes it impossible for him to act differently. This sort of self deception had been addressed by Kierkegaard in a paradox he called “the sickness unto death,” someone who goes on pretending in life as though he has no soul, and as a result, is in danger of losing his “self.” Episode 16’s title, “The Sickness Unto Death, And…” (死に至る病、そして, Shi ni itaru yamai, soshite?) is a reference to this work.
Sartre in Being and Nothingness calls the conditions that bring about consciousness (ourselves, the world, others) “instrumentalities.” Martin Heidegger, another existentialist, wrote an essay describing technology as an instrumentality that reveals “truth.” Philosophically, the Human Instrumentality Project is a representation of the idealism developed by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: a unification of all conflicts and tensions between societies, knowledge, and consciousness through a sort of historical evolution. Earlier philosophers such as Fichte had proposed that the human ego had come about through the instrumentality of freedom; it was Hegel’s theory that this consciousness was not separated from the world, but was a part of it and would eventually evolve into an Absolute spirit or mind, a sort of God-like being with absolute freedom. In the movie End of Evangelion, Shinji literally becomes such an absolute being, dissolving all other conscious beings and merging with them. Søren Kierkegaard criticized Hegel’s theory, not only because it was arrogant for a mere human to claim such a unity, but because such a system negates the importance of the individual in favor of the whole unity. He writes:
So-called systems have often been characterized and challenged in the assertion that they abrogate the distinction between good and evil, and destroy freedom. Perhaps one would express oneself quite as definitely, if one said that every such system fantastically dissipates the concept existence. … Being an individual man is a thing that has been abolished, and every speculative philosopher confuses himself with humanity at large; whereby he becomes something infinitely great, and at the same time nothing at all.
As illustrated in episodes 25 and 26, part of what shapes us as individuals are limitations: gravity, horizon, a body, and other people. Misato tells Shinji in the first episode, he has to learn how to deal with his anxiety and how to deal with others. Sartre in his earlier works went so far as to say that “hell is other people,” a sentiment expressed by Gendo Ikari as well . Other people limit our freedoms, or may tell us things we do not like to hear, and they may see aspects of our personality we do not. Shinji later reflects upon the fact that everyone he knows has their own impression of himself that may be different from his own. Going so far as to let others completely define you is also a kind of bad faith, because it gives one an excuse not to act as an individual. But in his later work, Sartre said he felt that both Hegel and Kierkegaard had a point. Individuality is important, but because part of who we are is shaped by the way others see us, we can have an effect on others too, and must work together with others in our collective struggle for existence.
nem mais. pois é!