Yeah, it's metaphorical/expressionistic. It's not a movie about the actual consequences of demolishing a city. As you say, people suffering from trauma often lash out and hurt those around them; a story about someone going through that and coming out the other end doesn't always have to keep going to walk you through their making amends to everyone they hurt while they were hurting. At the end, Ayana knows that she was wrong, and she is committed to being and doing better in the future.Major sssspielberg! wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 6:28 amIn my experience, guilt and bitterness, especially things that we tiny people can't control or forces that are 'bigger' than us can drive people to do awful, hurtful things. Especially in our teenage years. Besides, I always read Iris as a predatory influence-encouraging her anger and pain to feed itself.Mac Daddy MM wrote: ↑Thu May 27, 2021 4:30 pm Ayana's whole "surviving guilt and coming to grips with it by the end" is paid off in... Possibly the entire destruction of Japan and perhaps the human race?...
GIII is one of only a handful of movies int he genre that even have enough meat on their bones to be discussed and debated at this level. And most of the ones that do - at least from the Heisei era onward - tend to meet with just this kind of virulent criticism from the people they don't click with.