FF7r got kinda Evangelion movie, in that it started out as a retelling of a familiar tale, dwelled on the cozy familiar in a fanservicey way, started to turn up the divergence from the source, and then got totally abstract and thematic at the end

Part of that was to wedge final boss climaxes into a narrative that’s not through yet, but part of it specifically was to kill the narrative. Up to there mostly delivered a similar experience to the original, with some things remixed, enough that for returning fans they can really tease the fate of Aerith

Well just before the end they come out with a remix of that bit, then the final boss, more than Sephiroth, is like “the force of things necessarily going the way they’re fated to”, and with that defeated it’s not clear where anything stands and it’s like yes, that was definitely Final Fantasy 7 there, no I have no idea where this is going now

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