Evangelion 00~01: You Can (Not) Be Safe

We can see again purple~indigo starry sky and Rei as the source of (Blue) Light. The colors are mysterious. The Goddess presence.

And Asuka is in the shadow, she can only reflect or even absorb Light. She also separated from Rei&Shinji by a fence.

And one of peculiar features is use of iconic reverse perspective. In conventional linear (static and right-eyed) perspective the size of objects decreases, while moving away from observer (which is the center of this universe, starting point). The world of the picture is considered to be less-dimensional than ours (3D>2D), dependent and less real. The boundary separates two worlds sharply. That's common Renaissance perspective, antropocentric one.

But in iconic reverse perspective the more distant subject can be bigger and the picture unfolds from the inside out, off-center. As if the Observer is inside the picture, and in our case this is Rei. Otherworld is definitely more-(multi)dimensional than ours (no matter 3D<4D or 2D<3D). That's ancient traditional perspective (European Medieval, Byzantine, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese etc). As far as anime uses both 2D&3D, they're merging and overlapping, the boundary rather connects both worlds which being interconnected are equal and affect each other. Although it's implied that the Otherworld is original to ours and manifests itself, while unfolding from there to here, from Nought, from Nothingness, from Zero - from Rei (零).


What to say about Shinji: he feels safe, 'cause he's made a right choice. Lucky bastard :)

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