![]() ![]() ![]() Maya is friendly to the Eva pilots and supportive, likely since from her place in Central Dogma and as the monitor of their vital signs she is aware of what they go through. She is seen reading what appears to be a romance novel during a slow day at NERV. Maya’s cat pillow might be related to Ritsuko Akagi’s affinity for cats, since Maya has a strong bond with Dr. Maya is notably shorter than most of the other NERV personnel (only halfway between the 5'4" Misato and the 14 year old Eva pilots), so it appears she has to sit on a pillow so she'll be the proper height at her control terminal. Maya has some girlish affectations, including having a rabbit-face sticker on the side of her laptop screen, and a pink cat pillow which she sits on at her station. Notably she admires Commanders Gendo and Fuyutsuki for their coolness in the stifling headquarters during a power outage, not realizing that Fuyutsuki had his feet in a bucket of water ( Episode 11). It's really an era where science reigns supreme!", though Aoba dismisses her beliefs by saying "Talk about an old-fashioned line". Maya believes in the technological utopia that Tokyo-3 represents, remarking with starry-eyed enthusiasm "That's a city of science for you. It is possible that Maya idealizes human science and technology because it is what ultimately saved the world she grew up in from the brink of collapse. In particular, that this advancement followed Second Impact 15 years ago: unlike the 14 year old Eva pilots, Maya is old enough that she was a child at the time of Second Impact and thus unlike them probably remembers having to grow up through the ensuing global chaos in which human civilization painfully rebuilt itself, in a society struggling to feed its people. She is in awe of the technological advancements current society has achieved. Maya has also been shown to have a faithful, trusting nature. ![]() When the JSSDF soldiers stormed NERV headquarters in The End of Evangelion, she also refuses to fire on any of them, saying that she does not have the nerve to kill another human being. Using 35mm to give the film a luminous, deeply saturated, Almodóvar-esque vibe, Maya Nilo (Laura) boasts a marvelous ensemble and an actor-generated script that reveals the truths behind the grudges they hold against each other as well as the lies they tell themselves to cope.Maya is an optimistic and cheerful though sensitive young woman, who often hides her eyes or retches during the more violent Eva battles due to the fact that she is afraid of visible blood or internal organs. Though the two sisters are estranged as can be, they hop into the 965 Volvo with Laura to make the arduous journey from Stockholm to Sagres, Portugal. And any life of order is bound to get disrupted, this time in the guise of Nilo’s irresponsible sister Maya (Zhala), who has some bad news: She needs to borrow Nilo’s car so she can visit their mother, who has been recently diagnosed with cancer. Nilo (Bahar Pars) is a feminist writer with a husband and 13-year-old daughter Laura (Nidja Rosenberg), and theirs is a life of order. What makes a family? Uncomfortable realities mix with laughter and tears in this vibrant exploration of female relationships from debut filmmaker Lovisa Sirén.
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