Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure, Christian theology becomes an unsettling and visually ravishing mystery in early film from the Ghost in the Shell director This 1985 anime is a true curio: a furtive, portentous odyssey into a hollowed-out landscape told largely in symbolist images. A million miles away from director Mamoru Oshii’s often-logorrheic films (such as his best-known work, Ghost in the Shell from 1995), it still swills around plenty of philosophical concepts linked to his fascination with Christian theology. But like the egg being lugged around by the film’s nameless female protagonist, or the giant fish shadows swimming across the town facades, this is Christian theology as if half-remembered millennia later, or in the aftermath of a bad dream. The waif (voiced by Mako Hyōdō) carries this ovum under her petticoats, like some pre-pubescent immaculate conception, while scavenging a dark, mittel-European-style c

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