What do you mean by real depth? In cinema, isn’t skilled cinematography included in that? If I recall correctly, I’ve read from you somewhere that you think most of NGE’s narrative/mythological background is an impromptu, leaky mess (which I mostly agree with), so you might mean that by lack of real depth, but that doesn’t subtract much from NGE’s overall success at thematic exposition, so I’m still not fully getting it.
What do you mean by real depth? In cinema, isn’t skilled cinematography included in that? If I recall correctly, I’ve read from you somewhere that you think most of NGE’s narrative/mythological background is an impromptu, leaky mess (which I mostly agree with), so you might mean that by lack of real depth, but that doesn’t subtract much from NGE’s overall success at thematic exposition, so I’m still not fully getting it.
I’m not a cinema person, so I don’t really know. I approach my anime from essentially a New Wave SF literary standpoint.