Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo is a 2012 Japanese animated science fiction action film written and directed by Hideaki Anno. The film takes place fourteen years after the near third impact where the world has changed as Shinji awakens without having aged. Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo is a film about being unable to easily change your mistake, trying to atone for your sins, and the weight of actions caused by one individual.
The film starts with the world being a post-apocalyptic hell hole thanks to Shinji, were it shows that the main characters survived except for Kaji. As Willie a group headed by Misato to prevent the fourth impact have bots that attack the Eva’s with look like crosses with showcases their biblical judgement as this is a battle between man and God to control the world and create Eden. Auska is angry when fighting as piloting the Eva is her life as she doesn’t want to be alone and pilots the Eva to connect to people. The angel that attacks Auska looks like a Lovecraftian cosmic deity as the angels are like god’s causing righteous judgment on mankind. Auska is angry at Shinji which is completely understandable given the situation. This relates to the hedgehog’s dilemma as Auska doesn’t want to connect and lashes out in fear just as Shinji needs connection to be a person. This also demonstrates the will and representation as its Shinji’s and by extension everyone else’s failure to connect which causes these problems. This also demonstrates ambivalence as these characters hate Shinji but also realises it’s not completely his fault and they also have a part to play. Auska combats the hedgehog’s dilemma by aggressively asserting herself and lashing out at Shinji. Auska does the anything she can do which is take as much command as she can and push Shinji away as she goes on the attack against Shinji.
The angel then explodes into a cross showing biblical judgement, as the character of Kawarau in the film is Shinji’s own personal angel guiding him on his own spiritual journey as Shinji is a Jesus/messiah like figure. As Shinji awakens form his comma, he is in a sense reborn, he is then placed in the brig where Misato is now the commander where they look at him coldly and have a detonation device in the form of a chocker around his neck. There are interesting changes within the film such as the bridge characters Maya, Aoba and Hyuga have some sort of command and authority, as there are now interesting parallels between Misato and Gendo and Ritsuko and Fuyutsuki. Ritsuko tell Shinji there no need for him to pilot the Eva as Misato tells Shinji to do nothing. This demonstrates the hedgehog’s dilemma as Misato must push Shinji aside one because of genuine concerns but also to hide her guilt for what happened. This demonstrates the pain of human connection in the Misato rejects Shinji to not have guilt. As well as this interjection is shown as Misato hates Shinji buts also in her own way still feels for him. The mother figures in Shinji’s life have turned on him as he has nowhere to go. This demonstrates the fractured reality of who people are and how they need to be as Misato wants to admit guilt but must be a hardened person to survive. Auska deploys her AT field which is the barriers that people must penetrate to connect. This demonstrates the separation between the body and the mind as this mind body struggle emits nothing but pain.
The angels cast biblical judgement on humanity, as the angels explodes in a sea of red witch links to the book of revelations which shows biblical judgment as this is a war against man and God which is depicted in the fight against the angels and Wille. Unit 1 is used as the engine of the ship which demonstrates that Shinji is not needed, the DSS cocker that is fitted to him symbolises their distrust of him and his punishment as if they pull the tigger he dies, he is symbolically a Deadman walking witch a symbolic noose around his neck. Auska is understandably angry at Shinji who he greets warmly at first as she punches the glass in frustration, Shinji is then saved by Rei, but this one person seemly doesn’t matter as the Rei he knew doesn’t exist, however tough the hedgehog’s dilemma Auska secretly wanted to see Shinji despite hating him. When Shinji hears Rei’s voice it relates to the Freudian mother as he needs that connection in life, Ritsuko blocks off the glass creating a barrier between them and Shinji as he is rejected by everyone. Shinji then gest rescued by Rei in her Eva as Misato reveals that they are Wille another organisation that will destroy Nerv, as Rei’s Eva is infused with Adam as these are righteous figures dictating humanity. Misato cannot activate the trigger both because of her motherly instincts and some of the blame of this world in on her shoulders, as Shinji is taken to the destroyed remains of nerv. Shinji then meets Kawuru both a literal angel and his own personal guardian angel, he then meets his father who stats that him and Kawuru will pilot it, the hedgehogs dilemma is also shown as Shinji tries to reach out but gets no reply as Shinji wants connection form other like his father but Gendo fears rejection from the death of his wife and wants to interconnect the world to not feel pain. Shinji tries to reach out on the phone but can’t be use of the hedgehog’s dilemma separation of people. Shinji fi ds Rei who tries to reach out as he saved her, but she is now a blank slate. This shows Rei melonic as she as removed her individuality and is a blank slate. Gendo’s plan is to initiate the third impact as prophesied in the dead sea scrolls as use unit thirteen to be with his wife Yui. This links to the breaking of vessels as everything was connected but then broke apart recreating the world as Gendo wants this combination. This also relates to tikkun ha-olan as Gendo wishes to restore the world and bring it back as one. With Shinji’s headphones being broken it shows that he can’t block out the real world, as Shinji’s mind is made up of different people wanting him to do different things. Shinji crawls into the foetal position showcasing he is still very much a child. Shinji then meets Kaworu and they play the piano together as Shinji feels that he can’t play the piano but with guidance form kaworu he manages to play and connects though music. This showcases Shinji’s bisexuality as he connects with Kaworu. This disproves the Hedgehog dilemma as Shinji can connect to Kaworu. Shinji’s connection relates to disproving Schopenhauer’s idea of will and representation and although Shinji still cannot connect himself, he still manages to disprove the hedgehog’s dilemma. Shinji and Kawuru bond over the piano as Shinji want to create sounds and feels better leaning a skill again disproving the hedgehog’s dilemma as the bonds people create make people feel better.
Shinji asks Kawuru to fix his cassette player which shows that the bonds people have with each other are important, as this happens Shinji and Kawuru bond which awakens Shinji’s bisexuality which disproves the hedgehog’s dilemma. Shinji realises that his wearing Toji’s old white school shirt which causes despair for Shinji as he realises people, he knew might be dead. This shows Shinji sickness unto death his despair. This also demonstrates the hedgehog’s dilemma as Shinji believes that his connections with people is what has caused misery. As well as this this showcase will and representation and ultimately struggles to connect as Shinji’s inability to connect has doomed the world. Kawuro fixes Shinji’s cassette player as the talk and bond. Shinji expresses worries about his friends as he doesn’t know what happened because he was asleep, he paradoxically has a fear of the unknown but wants to know the truth, as well as a paradox of fear and curiosity as Shinji relates to Arthur Schopenhauer’s idea that life is suffering. Shinji mind relates to Kierkegaard’s fractured reality between who Shinji is the destroyer of worlds and what Shinji needs to be a person who moves forward. Shinji’s identity is based on the people around him and now everyone hates himself and his Ife is doomed. Shinji paradoxically wants to do his job and run away and from this minimising his own existence as he wishes not to be, as Shinji can’t exist in society and retreats instead of reaching out as he can’t accept himself. Kawuro shows Shinji the post-third impact world witch he caused with unit one as a near mass exciton event happened as Lilith artificiality evolved killing humans in the process creating the near instrumentality project as Shinji caused this, his chocker on his neck represents his sin however despite Shinji causing this he can atone there is hope.
Gendo proceeds with the human instrumentality project as Futuski says he must open to Shinji but Gendo refuses. This showcases the hedgehog’s dilemma as Gendo has a fear of connection and pushes Shinji away. Shinji is in a state of semi-despair but believes he saved Rei who he has faith in. Rei has not touched the books because she is not the same Rei, she has lost all her memories. This demonstrates Rei’s personality as being melancholic having no soul, no mum as she doesn’t know what she’s missing with causes her sadness. Rei has removed her individuality and has no emotional contact. Shinji and Fuyutsuki connect by playing shogi. He tells Shinji he must be calm as he talks about his mother and gives him a picture of her were she looks like Rei. She was a student of his that was accidently swallowed by unit 1, Yui is still inside unit 1 and her clone is Rei. He explains that Gendos plan is to break to world and put it back together just like people hearts as Gendo is sacrificing everything for this as shown by Gendo looking at the Yui/Rei giant head failed clone. This relates to the oral stage as Shinji detached from his mother is a lost child stumbling in the dark, therefore the Eva’s are bound with their mother’s soul, and this is what they have lost. This links to Eros and Thanatos being the drive to life and the death drive as though the human instrumentality project people want pleasure and not pain and want to get rid of the pain and return to the womb. This is to restore the world saving humanity as though the hedgehogs dilemma they have the pain of identify and self and the wish to minimise their existence.
Shinji asks Rei why she doesn’t read books as Rei says she want ordered to as Rei doesn’t remember anything which angers him. From this Shinji has an external crisis realising he did not save her as he has a fractured mind of piloting and not piloting the Eva. This demonstrates Shinji’s fractured reality his in two minds of who he is and what he wants to be piloting and not piloting the Eva and from tis Shinji sub comes to despair due to human connection. This demonstrates Shinji death drive and drive to life as he fears death but wants to minimise pain and get rid of it though the death drive as he wishes a return to the womb. His identity is linked to the people based around him as he wishes to be controlled. Shinji wants to be used and do his job whilst also wanting to run away and minimising his existence as he wishes not to be. Since Rei has removed her individuality Shinji cannot exist within the new world and retreats inside himself as he can’t accept what he has done. Shinji doesn’t want to pilot the Eva as he didn’t save Ayanami. Kaworu says nothing good will ever come from replaying his life. On one hand he almost destroyed the world but on the other hand he is just a 14-year-old teenage boy scared for his life. Kaworu wears Shinji’s collar accepting the weight of responsibilities on himself. They have decided they will take the spears for themselves and repair the world. Together though the double entry plug people will come together to change the world witch also links to Shinji’s homosexual awakening. This demonstrates that to combat despair faith is used as Shinji and people must belief in something as just pure logic will not help people, this is because humans aren’t logical, and that science has reduced humanity. From this connection Shinji believes in himself and the people around him. at through collective subjectivity the bond Shinji has forged with people make him achieve things as when people have faith and committed to an idea people become symbolic hero disproving the hedgehog’s dilemma.
In this plan Shinji is overly confident however Kaowu is worried. Rei then hears Shinji say she’s not Ayanami as she has an existential crisis. Other people have tried to trigger an impact as they go to Lilith and believe in each other, so they synchronise. They then find the remains of Lilith and a Lilith controlled Eva as they need the spears of Longinus and Cassias. Rei’s existential crisis shows her melancholy as she has no soul no mum and doesn’t know what she’s missing with causes her sadness. They trigger the dead Lilith who from Jewish folk law is the mother of demons and in Eva is what humans descend from as Shinji is unknowingly trying to wipe out the sin of humanity. The red oceans around Lilith links to the book of revelations. What Shinji is trying to do with instrumentality is what is known in Jewish religion as the breaking of vessels. Everything is connected but then broke apart as Shinji is striving for tikkun ha-olam as he wants to restore the world and bring everything back together as one. They then get attacked by Auska who tries to stop them as Rei attacks Auska as Mari attacks Rei as this scene is about two opposing ideologies with Shinji believing in togetherness and Auska believes in individuality. Shinji’s destruction of the world relates to the breaking of vessel as the world was connected but then broke apart. What Shinji wants is tikkun he-olam to restore the world back together as one. This ain relates to the hedgehog’s dilemma as Shinji wants to warmth of others but due to what he has done no one will give him that so he tries to join people together. This links to Arthur Schopenhauer’s ides of like is suffering because of will and representation. Shinji’s struggle to connect to others is what cased this and that things would be better without this struggle. Though instrumentality the suffering of individual will fade people will submit there will and not have any pain in the world. The two identical spears have become one spear as Lilith wants to take control as humans are the decedents of Lilth and want earth for themselves. Rei realises she is not the first as Mari says she is part of the Ayanami series giving her an existential crisis. Shinji and Auska fight as two opposing ideologies clash as Kawuru tell’s him to stop. Shinji takes control as he grabs the spears as he wants to take control of his own destiny, as the Eva then then grows four arms linking into the quote, I am become death the destroyer of worlds as Shinji is a messiah figure causing biblical judgement to save humanity, he then rips the spears out to unleash Lilith as he controls the world and his destiny.
The angel awakens as Shinji is a messiah character casting religious judgment on humanity as Rei as an existential crisis seeing herself as Lilith. Though the dead sea scrolls seele wants to be eternal returning souls though the human instrumentality project. This links into the ideal of will and representation and the nature of realty. Peace would be available through humanities struggle to connect like the characters in Eva. The suffering is cause of the individuality and it would be better to be together without the struggle to connect. Suffering in the film shows how sometimes people can only see in their own way though people overseeing their own will the world doesn’t give them what they want. Eva unit 1 has become a god deciding humanities fate with instrumentality with Adam and Lilith are under the control of Shinji and his Eva as they will both destroy and change the world as Shinji is an unwilling messiah. The fourth impact is initiated to bond all of humanity into one and subsequently destroying the world as Shinji realises its all his fault the destruction of everything in the fourth impact in his, as Misato tries to destroy the Eva and Shinji the prevent the fourth impact. Eva unit 1 then takes control of Adam as Auska becomes a beat with her Eva humans must become demons to fight angels. Auska helps Rei about her own identity as she destroys the angel’s core. Shinji realises the weight of what his oden as Kawuru is the thirteenth angle and the trigger of everything as everything that has happened is due to Shinji’s fractured mind. Kawuru closes the doors of guff as the fourth impact will be prevented as Shinji must find his own home and happiness. The hedgehog’s dilemma is disproved as Kawuru says people will help him. Kawuru sacrifices himself for Shinji and the bonds people share with each other are important. Shinji must man up and learn about life by standing on your own two feet, as Misato has mixed feelings about Shinji. Shinji is found curled up like a baby in the Eva as Auska is angry about his selfish fear of reaction as he is like a child. Shinji ends the film in a state of despair as he drops his headphones as Rei picks them up and they all walk off together.
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo is about the weight of consequences for actions. He is a film about the idea of atonement, weight of sin of an individual and can a person who has one so much wrong every achieve anything and create something good.