NetflixNeon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.5
Overview
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
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Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Christianity: Negative
Judaism: Negative
Overview
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
Starring Cast
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Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film critiques libertarian individualism and authoritarian collectivism, ultimately endorsing a difficult but hopeful path of collective action, human connection, and altruism to repair societal ills, positioning it as a left-leaning text advocating for societal change.
The film primarily features a Japanese cast, which is traditional for its cultural context, without explicit demographic diversity. However, it incorporates strong female characters who challenge traditional gender roles and includes subtle queer subtext, contributing to a light presence of DEI themes within its narrative.
Secondary
The film contains queer subtext through the interpreted romantic devotion of Kaworu Nagisa towards Shinji Ikari. However, this is not explicitly confirmed, leaving the portrayal ambiguous. It neither explicitly affirms nor denigrates queer identity, resulting in an incidental depiction that avoids strong positive or negative arcs.
The film extensively recontextualizes Christian iconography (Angels, crosses, Lilith, Adam) to represent destructive forces, existential dread, and a bleak, manipulated future. These symbols are stripped of their traditional positive meanings and instead become associated with suffering and the apocalyptic events of the narrative.
The Kabbalistic Tree of Life serves as a central conceptual framework for the Human Instrumentality Project. However, within the film's narrative, this framework is associated with a forced, often traumatic, dissolution of individual identity and the loss of self, contributing to the film's overall tone of despair and existential crisis.
The film features female characters like Asuka Langley Soryu and Rei Ayanami who engage in combat piloting giant mechs (Evangelions). While they are central to the action, their victories are achieved through the use of advanced technology against other mechs, not through direct physical combat against male opponents. Misato Katsuragi uses firearms, which are excluded from the criteria.
The film is a direct continuation of the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. All established characters maintain their canonical genders from the original series, and no characters from prior source material are portrayed with a different gender.
The film is a direct continuation of the anime series, maintaining the established racial depictions of its characters. No characters originally established as one race in the source material are portrayed as a different race in this film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
8.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
8.1
8.3
Critic Ratings
9.2
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