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There's this bit I love in Silence of the Lamb. Hannibal Lector stands above the camera, looming very, very slightly. His eyes are closed, his mouth is half open, and his face has a beautific look of gentle joy. A song is playing, and as the music shifts and changes, his right hand gently wafts in the wind, following the beat, the flow, the notes. We've all been there - that feeling of incredible satisfaction which only something local, tangible, solid and beautiful provides us. His face is splattered with blood, there is a trail flowing down the left side of this face, curving past his chin, stuck gently upon his face. He has just killed two policemen, one after biting his face off. He is about to make his escape. He will never be incarcerated again.

There's a lot of little bits I love in Neon Genesis Evangelion. The look on somebody's face which exactly reflects how you, the viewer, is reacting to what's going on, but in a subtly different way. The sharp shift of semi-trained teenage pilots of giant robots (did anyone else here used to pronounce it "Giant Robo" as a kid, as if it was French?) perform a perfectly choreographed attack (and if you've seen NGE, you *know* I'm talking about Angel #7), destroyed the Angel, caused it's self explosion - then within seconds dissolved back into the kids they are. One of the problem with finding "bits" in NGE is that for me the brilliant bits aren't always the giant robots destroying things (although those are PRETTY FRIGGIN' COOL - thus far, I *love* the assault on Angel #5, and the first attack on Angel #7 was jazzy, if a little .. ah .. unsuccessful), but the little details and expressions - the looks on Shiji's face when contemplating his messy room-mates, Ayanami's perfect emotionless looks (she's growing on me!), and Asuka ain't *that* bad.

Interestingly enough, Gwynne's NGE DVDs crash the Macs more effectively than anything I've seen since Win '95. Not joking (I always had a surprisingly stable Win '95. Atleast, that's how I remember it ... !).

(Wonders how many more episodes I can manage until 5:30 or so ...)

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