天使の卵

"Angel's Egg - Tenshi No Tamago" (1985) : Amazing animation film. I fell in love with if from the very beginning somehow. I think it's a very philosophical and a unique piece. It's absolutely beautiful...

"a young girl is the sole protector of a very precious, large egg. her lair is near a large, abandoned, decaying gothic city inhabited by restless shadows. a mysterious young man arrives one day, and eventually wins her trust. they converse sparsely about obscure philosophical and theological topics, and she shows him some astonishing fossils and works of historic and scientific art. the ending is a bit shocking, and very ambiguous, leaving many unanswered questions and tons of room for interpretation."

For those who aren't exactly looking for an artistic animation piece, this might bore you to sleep. It doesn't have much talking involved, and has many untied ends to things but otherwise, I thought it was brilliant. This piece really put me in a trance.

It has a lot of religious symbolizations, and a ton of other metaphors too; here's a site for some of the interpretations of the symbolisms http://blogs.teodesian.net/wp/?p=117 You can watch the film on YouTube here;

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