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I'm not an immigrant child and neither is my partner, but I feel like I can relate somewhat to this story. I was in foster care for only the first few months of my life while they're 19 and still moving from placement to placement. Not to mention they have more serious mental illnesses than me. I never realized how hard foster kids' lives are until I met him since I've been adopted for nearly 2 decades. I feel like we've both been able to help each other in different ways. I've had to learn and grow and figure out how to support someone like them. They've confided in me about their mental state, situation in the system, and more. They used to SH and it seems like they've been able to stop thanks to me (and other factors ofc). I can't imagine how things would've gone if we hadn't met each other. I don't regret meeting them nor do I think I ever will. I'm glad we're together and I really like them. I might even say I love them. Again, not a perfect parallel. It's just... hearing how Wade helped Ember reminded me of myself and my partner. ANYWAY, that's my little rant. Please no hate in the replies. ❤

The marketing for this movie is terrible and I almost left it alone until I realised it was a film about immigration and it hooked me right away. As an Asian immigrant, this movie brought me to tears, especially when Burnie explains his true dream for Ember; it hits too close to home.

It's possible Mike might have won at the scare games, if Sully didnt cheat. We'll never know if he was actually good enough.

Ah, man.

I never understood how anyone wouldn't realize how scary mike is. Without Billy Crystal expressing the character in the way he does. Mike alone is one of the scariest designs out of all the monsters. Which was why he worked as a gag so well in the first one

Rewatched Monsters University for the first time in years, I’d forgotten just how good this film is, I’d overlooked it for a while but now I’d have it in my top 5 Pixar films alongside Cars, Ratatouille, The Incredibles and Monsters Inc

That ages soo Well After the ammount of xenophobia in usa After "recent events"

My favourite character since I was a kid 😀

#flanderization

fantastic video bro. 500 days of summer is literally what im going through rn

Woody: So long, partner. Squidward: Who left this bowl of onions here?

What background/ambient music did you use (outside of the soundtrack cuts)? It was incredible

I think it’s even crazier when you understand that they let Tom CHOOSE his last line. That wasn’t the writers, that was “Loki” (the persona Tom has crafted over the last decade and more). He tied it all together perfectly with that line.

I LOVE IT when people make their own spin on mythology. And no one can convince me that tree Loki formed wasn’t a reference to the Norse mythology WORLD TREE.

I cried so hard with this episode. Saw it for the first time this year. Definitely one of my top 2024 moments.

Pwrhaps it's not necessarily that he starts to believe in destiny again (although that's what the director is trying to convey) but that life is what you make of it.

I just noticed this while watching, from the clips, you can see that The kid who said “you don’t belong on a scare floor” to Mike, is also seen sitting next to Mike in the university classes

I guess i'll blame all the indie songs and all these romantic movies , wong kar wai , eric rohmer ... for fueling this sh!t on me ... and move on

Listening to this at work was a mistake 😭😭

3X WORLD CHAMPION AND 1X WORLD CHAMPION LAUDA AND HUNT MENTIONED LETS GOOOO

Chapter 8 is the best, also loved wolfmother since before I saw this movie. Gotta love the rest of the message about love/relationships but the depiction of Tom's evolution combined with the depiction of his flaws that remain is still so raw. He's still just starting to get it kind of and where he'll be next but he's still stuck to the past even with as far as he comes. It also never really gives insight to if he ever got over her truly after that even though he got a lot more closure while on the bench and while we're given a hopeful glimpse that he may see a relationship where he gets what he needs at the very end right before his architect interview, it's just as possible that it still goes bad, but he's got more experience now and maybe he'll at least have better luck and be more wise about his relationship.

In Fishes, we are shown Mikey at his lowest as he threw forks. I'd like to think that Richie cleaning forks is a symbolism of him cleaning himself of grief from Mikey's loss. Therefore allowing himself to move on and be better.

This is so good. Well done, sir.

At 5:27 did she almost call Richie Babe??

So, you wanna know the crazy part? There are people that actually dislike this movie.

7:07 this is a bit of both

Ember is just an amazing protagonist. I didn't see much of it, but I loved what I saw.

It must've took AGES to make Monsters Inc, and Monsters University. Sulley has a ton of hairs.

Damn that was something, you did an amazing job. Thank you

Beautiful analysis

When you said it was unrated I got screaming and crying because YES GOD FINALLY SOMEONE SAID THAT I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH AND MIKE'S ARC ESPECIALLY I accidentally subscribe while I was kissing the screen with your profile

Deserves more subs fr

Awesome video man

Another aspect of Ember’s character/background I found incredibly relatable is the fact that she is an ONLY child. So not only does she have these immense expectations on her to do everything in her power to make her parents proud, if she fails, her parents have no one. I have always been jealous of my cousins and friends who have siblings for quite a few reasons, and one of those is that they have the help of their siblings to take care of their parents. If one messes up, the other can make up for it. Yet people like Ember and I? We are on our own. After our parents struggle and sacrifice so much to make a living in a new country, all you want to do is be able to make their lives easier, at least one day. Yet if you are unable to fulfill that, your parents have no one else to take care of them once they are old and frail, like Ember’s father. You do not have a sibling to share the struggle with, to divide the work with, or even relate to the overwhelming pressure. All the weight and responsibility of repaying your parents’ sacrifices is on you, only you. I absolutely loved this video essay. You really nailed every second generation immigrant and immigrant parent struggle on the head. The movie itself already gets me tearing up or full out crying every time, yet I was not expecting a video essay on it to also start up the waterworks heh. I especially loved the section about how any problem you have is immediately minimized because of how much worse your parents problems were. It makes you very closed off from expressing any negative experiences or thoughts to them, whether it be out of fear of their ridicule or coming off as a spoiled brat. Then you internalize that you have no valid problems whatsoever because you do not know what it is like to truly suffer; because your life is easier by comparison, your life is easy. So every time you are sad or upset, you feel weak. Amazing video.

2:10 What I love about animated films is that people can relate without even realizing. It's like Sully had a kid and now all of a sudden he only cares about the child, and Mike, his childless best friend, is now alone. Their hopes and aspirations, dashed. And I'm sure some childless folks can relate when all their friends start having kids and priorities change.

If you ask me, Mike was by no means a side character, maybe even having a decent shot at being the most important

Eu recebi um vídeo desse episódio e chorei só de abrir o vídeo lembrando das emoções de quando assisti. Com esse ensaio foi a mesma coisa chorei do início ao fim hahaha Parabéns pelo vídeo ensaio, você fez um excelente trabalho! Obrigada por falar sobre meu episódio favorito de The Bear 🐻‍❄️🐼🐻🧸 Me inscrevi no canal, espero que volte a postar quando der

I distinctively remember the translated version i watched having Sully instead of saying "none of it matters now", saying something that in english would mean "nothing matters anymore"

The main thing i think about now when watching this movie is “Yeetus Vanitas”. And it’s a curse. If you know, you know.

btw u said iron man and tony stark

This movie matures with you. I can relate to Tom's character as my idea of love is shaped by bollywood movies, music and poetry making me a hopeless romantic. This idea of people meant to be always together and will do whatever it takes to be with each other is unrealistic. In a real world love is different and this is scary for me.

Best show currently, very great analysis. Thank you very much for taking time to do this video for us. Every second counts, and you get it!

Monsters University is the only prequel aside from Star Wars that felt necessary. It's not quite as good as Monsters, Inc., but it's still great. It's my fourth favorite Pixar movie. The third act is just perfect. I really love it. There is nothing quite like Mike and Sully's conversation, and their big scare.

JESUS TE AMA❤

10:19 that fanart made me feel for her like I never thought I would fr-

I feel like Monsters Franchise is the prequel original and the sequel is good :) 😊

Using the university and the janitor Job to tie the movies together is clever. They kept that door open

I love how MU ends with Mike finding happiness in the realization that what he thought he wanted just wasn't right for him. I'm disabled, I was born with several conditions that I won't bother droning on about. 😅 I, like Mike, have always had a sense that I'm different, and no matter how hard I try, the world is just not designed for my success. From the beginning, we see Mike is not like the other monsters; he's small, easily overlooked, and constantly being told that he doesn't belong. When he starts going to MU, he's fully aware of the fact that his differences could be seen as negative qualities, but he doesn't let them define him, and instead works twice as hard as his classmates. Mike's narrative parallels the disabled experience so beautifully. Disabled people extend far beyond their disabilities, and they often do have to work twice as hard as those who are able-bodied just for a tiny taste of what it feels like to be taken seriously. It can be so frustrating when you spend your whole life wishing people would open their eyes, look beyond your disability, and see that you are capable of greatness, only for an able-bodied person (someone like Sully in MU) to come along and have the whole world handed to them on a silver platter. I think Mike always knew he didn't belong in the Scare Program; he's not stupid, he knows that he's built different from the conventionally "scary" guys. Getting kicked out was painful to him not only because it meant that he would have to stop pursuing what he wanted, but also it felt like a harsh confirmation that everyone was right about him-- he *does not* belong. Part of being disabled is making peace with the fact that there will be things that some folks can do that you simply can't. When you're brought up in an able-bodied world, that initial realization of "hey, this isn't meant for me" can really suck, and takes time to accept. Mike's whole approach with the Oozma Kappa monsters in the Scare Games was to basically use their differences to make them scary. We can see here that Mike is starting to accept the fact that he's different, but he's still having a hard time, because his mentality is that differences are only okay when they make you scary; the aim is still on being scary and fitting in, even when diversity is on the table. Side note, but the scene when The OK monsters are watching the workers on the Scare Floor was so touching, I actually cried seeing individuals who have always been told they don't belong finding pieces of themselves in those that they look up to :') Anyway, The quote from Sully at the end of the movie, "You aren't scary, not even a little bit, but you are fearless!" is so important. Every other time "you aren't scary" is said, it is meant in a derogatory way. This is the first time that it is recognized that Mike not being scary doesn't have to be a bad thing, and the fact that it comes from Sully, one of the most privileged monsters-- the same guy who was bullying Mike for his lack of scariness in the beginning-- is huge. Disabilities are not bad, they just are. I hate it when kid's movies give the protagonist a clear disadvantage only for them to end up just like everyone else in the end. These kinds of stories can teach kids, especially kids with disabilities, that they *have* to fit in to get their happy ending. I am so grateful MU did not end this way. Mike's dream come true does not look the way he imagined at first, but that's because he had to go on a journey of self acceptance to realize that he is meant for something different. He finally learns that his worth is not defined by how scary he is, similarly to how disabled folks' worth is not defined by what they can or can't do. Disabled people, like Mike, will still live meaningful lives <3 Thanks to anyone who read this wildly long comment lol, I rarely comment on things, but this is something that I've had on my mind for a while, and this seemed like the perfect place to share it. Have a great day and remember you are wonderful just the way you are 🌸💕🫶🌈

Hold it hold it hold it! Hold the phone! 7:49 The best rivals to friends is Iron man and Tony Stark!? Outside of that one mistake though I really love this video.

Ironman and Tony Stark...