So, I was up at around 2 AM the other morning, just...uh, falling asleep in a chair, basically, and Neon Genesis Evangelion: End came on. And though blearily (that better be a word) confused by coming in at some point long after the movie had started, I quickly started paying attention. For one, near the end there is (me agreeing with a reviewer, here) a giant-robot-battle to end all giant-robot-battles. How does one make a giant-robot-battle gratuitously violent, you ask? You add giant-robot-blood-and-organs. Yummy. Actually pretty gross. And horribly violent. From another angle, some of the imagery and plot is quite disturbing - on the shallow side, on a visceral level. On a slightly deeper side, on a conceptual and subconscious level. In the conceptual sense, for example, the whole idea of something 'angelic' is completely up-ended, and (once I got it after a spot of 'research') the exploration of individuality and one's consciousness are interesting (and also explain some of the loud, psychotic screaming, shiver-inducing whisper choruses, and creepy horror-movie little girls at a couple points). What I meant by the subconscious side of things is a heavy dose of sexual imagery, which never really actually presents itself obviously as such, but I could definitely feel a purposeful pattern tugging at the close-reading part of my brain.
      And, there's a crazy 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque psychedelic sequence for those who are into that sort of thing, involving live-action shots of really random things, like people falling asleep in theatres. Yeah, I have no idea what that was supposed to symbolize. Because then they cut back to the continent-sized glowing woman. It seemed interesting that early in the morning, anyway.