qmisato:

around 00:01:40~ into the beginning of end of evangelion, the morning after shinji has his talk with misato by the lake.

granted, it’s never stated outright, but little in evangelion is, and the above cuts stand on their own merits. this wordless scene is pretty indicative of an huge shift re: shinji’s character development (albeit a negative one) since anno has always described shinji as someone who has “convinced himself that he is a completely unnecessary person, so much so that he cannot even commit suicide.”

some of anno’s most important cuts are brief, ambiguous, and very easy to miss. personally, this is one of my favorite ones.

This is an old belief I’ve seen around a dozen of times in several sites which was probably born in our ‘favourite’ (heh) fanwanking board: those are actually sweatdrops and not water from the lake according to the storyboard.

ほほに汗 is translated to ‘sweat on the cheek(s)’. Note how 汗 ‘sweat’ is even remarked with underlines.

‘He cannot even commit suicide’ makes more sense in reference to episodes like #4, or #16 where Shinji finally freaks out when he thinks he’s actually going to die, more than anything.