I remember vividly telling my gf the first time watching rebellion “I hope this movie Homura gets to crash out and cry a lot and open emotionally with someone”
And putting the monkey paw wish aside, I honestly need a scene with the same ideas from Madoka when she gets her memories back in the new movie.
Madoka arc needs a moment when the world stops, she realizes the weight of her decisions, and just breaks down piece by piece. Homura’s burden is one of sacrificial of the self for another, human to human, Madokas one is the burden of sacrifice of the self to the world, human to reality. A reality that she left behind in order to become the change, becoming in the metaphorical and literal way. But turns out that’s a heavy burden, and not without her flaws.
She’s not only neglected Homura through leaving her as a loophole in the wish, but her own existence as well, and if the flower field scene told us anything, is that at least her subconscious mind acknowledges this side of her life as the Law of Cycles. Acknowledges that the sacrifice of the self, even for the world, comes at expense of someone, it may be you, it may be people you love, but sacrifice, even for the greater good, comes at a price, and not a meaningless one.
So when the time comes, and it will come, I hope Madoka could cry it out to someone. And even with tears dropping in a fake world and the burden of her decision on her back, she still takes the same choose over and over again, because that’s just who she is. A naive kind girl who feels like she has nothing to offer to the world more than her kindness, and if she has to erase herself to do the deed, so it be.
And honestly? I could never blame her, not when I would do the same. Over and over again.
