The shifting of animation styles to convey climactic moments in a story is a tale as old as time, but in the Evangelion saga, it has a specific history. When Shinji speaks to him, the animation returns to normal, then it cuts backВ to sketches and shifting backgrounds, as we dive through GendoвЂ™s memories again.ДЇrom top: Photo: Amazon Prime Video Photo: Amazon Prime Video The choppy editing matches GendoвЂ™s mania and sadness as he recalls his doomed romance, the images gradually overlaid with black-and-white shots of Rei, the girl Gendo created as a replacement for Yui. The second he utters the line, the crisp, color-saturated, 2-D animation (aided by CGI, of course) that weвЂ™ve been watching for two hours cuts to sketchy, rough-hewn line work, closer to storyboards or manga than to finished animation. This is the moment director Hideaki Anno chooses to dramatically shift the visual storytelling: вЂњIt is a very restful world, where I can be with Yui again,вЂќ Gendo says, explaining to his son why he attempted to create a cataclysm where billions of peopleвЂ™s minds would meld into one. But even if youвЂ™re unfamiliar with the original mecha show Neon Genesis Evangelion, its follow-up films, or the Rebuild tetralogy that Thrice Upon a Time ties off - all of which remake and remix the same essential story - the monologue arrives with heft. To longtime Eva fans, Gendo explaining himself feels monumental. Unlike his past comeuppances in the expansive Evangelion franchise, here, the man both physically fights his teenage son Shinji and monologues, unleashing heartache over his dead wife, Yui, and taking responsibility for his failures as a dad - failures that have led to a psychosexual apocalypse by which all of humanity liquefies into homogeneous goo. Anime director Hideaki Anno excavates his charactersвЂ™ emotions by deconstructing the world around them.ДЄ little over two hours into Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, we finally hear Gendo Ikari, father to our protagonist and the anime seriesвЂ™ final boss, speak at length.

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