This is part 1 of Angel's Egg, a surrealist anime work that people generally either love or hate. It's somewhat based on Christian theory which is unusual for Japan becuase Japanese people don't really practice Christianity. It was produced by Tokuma Shoten in 1985 and is a collaboration between artist Yoshitaka Amano and Mamoru Oshii. It's a rather dark film and has existentialist thoughts within it. I found it very interesting. I have no affiliation with Angel's Egg. Just so you know. K thanks.

These are my thoughts on this anime. I found it difficult to watch. Not necessarily horribly depressing, just difficult. The music was a little too spooky for my taste, even though I like dramatic spooky music it was just too repetitive and a little bland. Parts of it really shone, specifically metaphorically speaking. But only if you were thinking about it really deeply, I mean, the dialogue was so sparse there was hardy a hint about what the writer meant by what the characters were saying. It's like they knew everything about what was going on but the audience has no clue. There isn't any revelation at the end either. I guess I like the basic idea of the concept: the innocent girl holding on to a shred of hope that may or may not actually be there, and the realist/pessemist (depending on your view) crushing that hope and causing her suicide. It's nice that at the end though, or at least I gather, that her suicide leads to a rebirth of the dying or already dead world where everyone pretty much acts like a zombie and is hunting shadows of fishes that aren't really there? I mean that's clearly a metaphor but I'm not entirely sure what it's a metaphor for. From what I read of other people's interpretations is that the whole work is based on one of the artist's "fallout with christianity" according to this: http://blogs.teodesian.net/wp/?p=117 blog, which I just discovered and tries a lot harder than wiki to explain what's going on. I think it's a beautiful peace of work in it's own way, but it definetely makes me feel a little uncomfortable.