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Angel's Egg Film Analysis - Surrealist Genre

The success of Angel's Egg draws its strength from its ability to take its audience through the story from each character's viewpoint and integrate the character's experiences into the viewer's own perception. The characters neither negates the other, but compliments and adds to essence the complexity of meanings. The context in which the film is able to draw experiences from its viewers gathers one own's perception, subjecive as they may be, may give the film a more unique translation and approach as its interpretation provide perceptive accounts based on what seems to be, an influence of one's sociological upbringing, religious background, relative rationality and value-based system unique to the viewer.

While this 1985 film originated from Japan and translated into more than 5 languages, contemporary Japanese anime root its traditions from this film as it stands to be the beginning of anime evolution in Japanese cartoonic culture. The controversial nature of this film lies upon the very beliefs it is believed to espouse-paying little attention to words as symbolic-rich themes revolve around imagery that root its power from silence manifested in shadows, paused and broken sentences and gazes.

The director was clever enough not to concentrate on explicitly rendering the plot open for interpretation-the film rather questions the very integrity that each image represents. The surrealist nature of the film need not make sense while viewed in a single frame, but accounts together as a metaphoric streamliner that stuggles to define itself in the context of its ideal definitions in the real world.

In my point of view, this film espouses the cultural context of Christianity, its effects on non-religious societies such as Japan and possibly extract a truly unique kind of perception from its makers where ultimately, its viewers can formulate representations in the context of their own interpretation.

Angel's Egg starts with a bizarre scene where an egg is seen emerging translucent of its contents, followed by eye-like spaceship that hold a number of humanlike-statues juxtaposed onto each other: gray, silent and still. Abandoned houses, broken windows and buildings have seemingly lost itself to the wind as it simultaneously pales a surrender of non-existence. One cannot help but ponder the series of events that transpired which led to the lifeless place it had become. The deteriorating structures seem to once hold a place

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