Sep 5, 2023
This movie was a pleasant surprise, I already expected it to be good, but I didn't expect that I would enjoy watching it so much, it's a great movie to study, and every time you discover the meaning of something, it ends up getting better because the love from the person behind this project. Tenshi no Tamago uses various allegories, symbolisms, bordering on surrealism and being interpretive at some points, he uses several of these aspects to tell the story of a little girl (protagonist), and the first aspect that is noticed is the contrast between light and darkness , the little girl representing the
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light, we see this when she crosses an immense darkness and lights up the place she walks, she also carries an egg (as if she were pregnant), which in turn represents life (this is very easy to notice) , also filling flasks with water, which also represents life, she walks through a city that appears to have been occupied before, but which is empty, and only remains that there was something there, such as the dead trees that she also finds along the way, the most used analogy is from the bible, since the protagonist himself cites events from the book, such as the flood, among other mystical things such as the shadows of the fish, in which the spirits of the fishermen wake up solely to hunt these fish, being useless because I believe that the fish represent the holy spirit that covers the entire city and follows regardless of any hunter, the representation of Mary in the little girl, since he is not pregnant, so she was not tainted, she is a virgin, but even so she carries a life , and the boy who is presented talking with one eye, is in charge of making the sacrifice, breaking the egg and releasing the life that was inside (with a cross-shaped sword). This film has an impeccable soundtrack, very short dialogues since it works more with images, it's that type of film that you have to sit down and pay attention, the characters as said before are few and that helps to tell the story better, since everyone is in their proper place, and each has a role in the story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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