#天使のたまご

[misandriste]

ANGEL’S EGG | 天使のたまご 1985, dir. Mamoru Oshii | 押井 守

[neovisceral]

天使のたまご

[synapseoftheark]

Angel’s Egg (1985)

[okieduckie]

天使のたまご (1985) the fall

[angel-oftheday]

The Angel of the Day is...

The unamed girl

From Angel's Egg

Requested by @slughooligan

[primespec]

Angel's Egg / 天使のたまご (1985) – Mamoru Oshii, Yoshitaka Amano

[cinemuki]

Angel's Egg (天使のたまご) (1985) - dir. Mamoru Oshii

[agvstn]

Angel's Egg 天使のたまご (1985)

dir. Mamoru Oshii

[velveys]

Angel’s Egg (1985)

[loneberry]

Angel’s Egg (1985) ‘天使のたまご’ Directed by Mamoru Oshii

A visually stunning and sonically unnerving 80s anime. You know I love my mystical egg girls. I was charmed by this beguiling and mysterious film, which features a hapless girl who collects glass jugs and protects an egg whose content is unknowable. She is a kind of street urchin who roams an ornate, apocalyptic landscape on an inscrutable cosmic mission. The somnambulant hunters hurl their lampoons at the shadows of coelacanth-like fish. (We are all chasing ghosts, aren't we?) The girl meets a boy who has forgotten whence he came. Yet these two amnesiacs are propelled by forces beyond themselves...

[misandriste]

ANGEL’S EGG | 天使のたまご 1985, dir. Mamoru Oshii | 押井 守

[aeschivos]

Angel’s Egg (天使のたまご) dir. Mamoru Oshii 1985

[texaschainsawmascara]

天使のたまご / Pahanhautoja

[okieduckie]

天使のたまご (1985) water

[mostlygibberish]

I liked the part with the fish.

Beautiful visuals, great use of silence to convey the total emptiness of the world, and some wonderfully surreal locations. That said, I have basically no idea what Angel's Egg was about. 

My best guess is it's an allegory for a world abandoned by god after war and self destruction, based pretty much solely on there being strange biomechanical tanks driving through a ruined city and the characters discussing the story of Noah's ark. Also, the guys sword thing looked like a crucifix.

In his version of the story, the dove never returned to the ark and they never found dry land; The animals died off, and the waters never receded. The final shot of the movie seemed to support this, with their whole world existing on the upturned hull of a ship, amid an endless sea. It was a powerful visual, in any case. 

Also, I think the giant eye made of statues was supposed to be heaven. The girl was memorialised there after she'd kept faith that the egg would restore life, while he could only look up at her from the world he had doomed all over again by smashing it. Then again, maybe it was only an empty eggshell.

Not much of a review I suppose, but I'm not sure what else to say.

[kawaiikaychu]

Inktober 26: Ego

Vil Schonheit in Angel's Egg Style