With no immediate angel attack to handle, this episode instead offers a focused, almost suffocating dive into Shinji’s psychology – his sense of isolation, his self-hatred, and that overhanging, stifling film of depression. Whether you ignore it or acknowledge it, the rain doesn’t care – in the malaise of depression, it will remain your only true companion.Įvangelion’s fourth episode opens on that rain, a cold curtain drowning Tokyo-3 in shadow. Others seem not to notice the rain, but simply emulating their behavior doesn’t make it go away. It steals color from our surroundings, painting everything in a somber gray, draining the vitality of the landscape just as it drains our passion for the things we love. It’s cold and damp, and it makes us feel cold and damp in turn, unclean, ashamed of our clammy skin. It pours down at all times, holding us up in bus stations or entryways or lonely stairwells, forcing us to relive old failures again and again. A great part of it is the rain, or rather, the felt sensation of perpetual rain.
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