Revolutionary Girl Utena AMV about losing ego, attachments, and deep trauma in the pursuit of freedom and agency.
Utena is story that doesn’t really live in its plot line, but rather in the depth of its esoteric metaphors that a viewer has to decipher themselves. Every character is living in a heavily controlled world, victims of their perceived roles and sense of confidence within them, and at some point have had innocence violently ripped from them. Everyone seems to want to go back to a time where they last felt control except Utena and Anthy who conspire to break free at any cost without knowing what’s beyond (and we don’t get to know either). Its my opinion that Utena and other characters can transform into cars because it’s a metaphor for using your own power and how necessary it sometimes is to strip most of yourself away to abandon a poisonous world. I really tried to stay true to the artists’ metaphors, but be as inventive as I could at the same time.
*you still here?*
I gotta say I first thought