Angel's Egg

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Angel's Egg (Tenshi no Tamago in Japanese) is a surreal 1985 animated film which was directed by Mamoru Oshii and featured art designs by Yoshitaka Amano. The film centers around a young girl protecting an egg in an abandoned gothic city who meets a mysterious man with a cross-shaped rifle. The rest is...a bit harder to describe, but it's extremely beautiful nonetheless.

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This film contains examples of:

• As the Good Book Says
• Beautiful Void
• Creepy Cool Crosses
• Dark Skinned Blond
• Doing It for The Art: Oshii admits that because this film bombed at the box office, he couldn't get any animation work for the next four years until he revived his career with Patlabor.
• Egg McGuffin
• Faceless Eye
• Le Film Artistique
• Flying Seafood Special: Giant flying coelacanth shadows, to be exact.
• Gainax Ending
• Ghost City
• Have You Seen My God: The real theme of this movie.
• Importation Expansion: When it was brought to the US, 45 minutes of live action footage was added in an attempt to release it as a post-apocalyptic thriller. This version, called In The Aftermath: Angels Never Sleep has since been almost completely forgotten.
• Leave the Camera Running
• Minimalist Cast
• No Name Given
• Our Angels Are Different: Apparently, they lay eggs. Or destroy them, or something.
• The Reveal: At the end of the movie, the camera pulls out slowly to show that the city is built on the capsized hull of Noah's Ark.
• Rule of Symbolism
• Silence Is Golden: There's less than a page of dialogue, and most of it is in one scene. The second line of dialogue is said a full 24 minutes into a 71 minute film
• Taken for Granite
• White Haired Pretty Boy
• White Haired Pretty Girl
• World of Symbolism