More than a year since my last update, yes? Sadly, nothing has really progressed. Monster took forever to get moving, so I eventually lost interest. A handful of comedies passed my way without much of note, including Birdy the Mighty. But there is good news on the horizon! Anno has finished Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0 and it shall be released this fall! Since Eva is quite possibly my favorite anime and favorite television series, and since You Can (Not) Advance was one of the best films I had seen in a while, I am terribly excited. The animation quality was astounding, the story compelling and wrenching as always, and the blending of music and animation simply superb.
The weakest part of most anime and popular media in general these days is the ending (The Book of Eli is a significant exception). Eva draws out perfectly the pain of being, but, since modernity has abandoned the faith, must create something new for salvation; thus the final applause scene of the anime was a bit of a letdown, as it seemed little more than a mediocre understanding of popular psychology. I have only found the Church and the noble paganism of ancient Greece to answer the complete problem of man's being, and though the former is far mightier than the latter, even the latter, with its heroic depiction of man, would do; sadly, we are three millennia past ancient Greece, and the closest shortcut to return, Nietzsche, fills most democrats with horror. Their solution is to strip Christianity of everything sublime, leaving only the 'nice' parts: "treat others as you would be treated", etc. A noble sentiment in its place, to be sure, but if you strip such a moral claim from its context of the saint, the faith, and metaphysics, such an attitude becomes contemptible, as Nietzsche saw.
Perhaps Anno will do something spectacular with the conclusion of the Rebuild tetrology. I hope something noble and sublime is produced. Till then, I shall enjoy the ride, and hope You Can (Not) Redo gets released in American theaters.
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