The whole movie was made to make Evangelion look like a massive play, characters start falling off the set, long dialogues take places on stages, they start discussing the title of the show as title cards appear behind them, key frames, weird CGI, sketches, storyboards, sound stage with equipment visible, and buildings made of cardboard are all included during the last impact. Why? Well, because Anno’s use of Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt (distancing techniques) are heightened to a new level in the finale, but thats because he’s willing to say goodbye to this universe in order to overcome it completely. The film is filled with voluntarily clumsy techniques to remind you that you’re watching a fiction, an animated fiction. An example of this is when Shinji is looking at the blue sea and it slowly disintegrates into its purest forms of creation. The last impact is the fusion of different imaginary projections. Reality and it’s representations fuse.

A giant meta meta meta circle-jerk of Anno still reminding you after 26 years that if you relate or take heart to anything in the series you're an idiot and should get help, and for filtering so many people and not caring about his own hubris, I love him even more. And seeing as 'big' Evangelion fans don't like this and typical pretentious otaku fans don't either, it makes this film even better and furthers Anno's point. 'I liked the mecha fights and music! but i felt disconnected and confused watching it, it felt hollow :(' remember when i said Brechtian? or 'this is nothing like the 90s anime or EoE i want to live in perpetual nostalgia!!!!' yeah it's almost like one of the main points of the film is to mock these 2 types.

YOU WILL grow up
YOU WILL stop watching anime
YOU WILL go outside
YOU WILL be emotionally mature
YOU WILL find someone you love and loves you back
YOU WILL support yourself and others
YOU WILL find happiness in reality, .
YOU WILL do all of these things right? It's expected of you, that is what growing up means, and that is what Anno thinks also, and if you refuse to do so? You are rendered useless.

I could talk about the Fichtean/Hegelian philosophy of consciousness in Rei or the dialectical materialism she shows as she also expands consciousness by modifying nature/her environment through labour, but the moral of the story is that Anno hates you and you should stop watching anime and interact with people, me included. thx. btw EoE is still his magnum opus. ok bye.