>>270709232>he was choking her because that was the last thing they were doing before getting tangedYeah.
>once he woke up and realized he wasn't in the dream anymore he stoppedHe stopped because he broke down, he broke down because he was facing what he was running away from, seeing himself, the things he did and he refusal to shoulder any responsibility.
>>270709212>EoE is a bad end It is, it's not even being evasive about it.
>>270709435It's meant as a call to her last action before getting killed, this is the act of defiance that spelled her doom, which is why reused to show submission in the epilogue and illustrate her growth through the movie. Living is the most important thing, there's no point in being prideful in death.
>>270709442>escape from whatFrom reality, the most important being the reality of what he has done (at the beginning of the movie, killing Kaworu, but the list just goes on as the movie goes), which led him to try to get her to pretend things were just as usual in the very hospital scene where she herself wasn't anywhere close to her usual state.
>anno even said that just because the protagonist says that he shouldn't run away doesn't make it true, and that escape is good at timesAnno said running away is a valid option, but he never, ever entertained the idea of it leading to a good place.
>the actual problem was that he desperately asked for help and she refusedNo, the problem is that he refuses to own any responsibility for his actions. Pushing him to run away from himself and making not only his life but eveything else miserable. Asuka agreeing to help Shinji would only give him more opportunity to run away, only for him to get further and further away from getting any better (Asuka spent the entire show doing just that only to end up comatose as a consequence).
