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one thing i wonder is if calums parents were abusive since they forgot his birthday and he also tought sophie how to defend herself against people. it made me think maybe he was abused and doesn’t want the same to happen to her

I wisht to be longer it needet more it was too fast

Wow! Great video!!

A very tasteless movie. Glorification of female pedophilia, dressed as a starvehicle for two ageing actresses..... I hope that in 20 years, this movie will go into the poison-cabinet.

Great video! Feels like there's still a lot to discuss about this movie, it'd be possible to make like 2 more videos about it lol!

I will never recover from this movie. Never. The moment you start to feel uncomfortable your heart has been already splitted in two

That was totally weird! I loved it... the weirder the better! Without weird, this would be a boring planet! I heard that somewhere on a TV channel in the 1990's....

The symbolism breakdown is on yms level here! Bravo! New sub

Even though this movie can be triggering for people with a parent that struggles with mental illness, it's also extremely cathartic and healing to see how complex these situations are and how love is simply not enough. So many kids have felt responsible for carrying their parent's pain, hoping they could save them from themselves, if only they could make them proud, be the perfect child, give them enough love. But there's nothing Sophie could have done to stop this. It never was about her. You can love someone deeply and still not be able to stay with them. You can love someone deeply and still feel completely powerless as you witness their downfall. So many things are left unsaid in this movie, just like in real life when tragedy strikes and the only people that could give you answers are long gone. A brilliant masterpiece.

To me instead this movie shows the opposite of closure. The protagonist shows emotional detachment: she gives up on her feelings (about her home, the past, her dreams) and she also chooses a relationship that is mostly transactional. There’s no closure because there is no openly confronting her feelings, positive or negative. Yes, she cries at the end, but it isn’t a crying t brings action, it’s a resigned crying, that leads to her sinking further into the dullness of her life. A real closure would have been to be alone at the end of the movie, alone and free, for the first time, to really make choices that are only hers and that are real choices, instead of a sort of being swept away (by her parents, by meeting a guy who is attracted to her and single at a summer retreat, by her past friend and love). I would have it end with her in a third location, even - as someone who has moved and lived abroad all her adult life. Again, to me it’s all very depressing.

No faux outrage, claiming the film exploits trauma, commenting on a film you haven’t watched, going on a twitter rant about melodrama vs camp. Are you sure you are a sensible video essayist? Just kidding, thanks for a wonderful review

This is such a thoughtful piece of review video essay! Thank you so much for the analysis. I now understood and liked the movie better.

With my son in Turkey at the moment watching the last scene with tears in my eyes. It's our last night here too.

😎🙏💯

So well-put, thank you!

The best video analysis I’ve seen of this movie !!

I must admit, when people say "nothing really happens" triggers me, because a lot of stuff happens in these movies and its not even subtle most of the time, its just more like emotional/internal sort of conflict as the characters go through the "mundane".

This movie was just bad. Simple and not very complex at all, just bad, random nonsense, non-cohesive story flow, no emotional weight for the supposed "themes", things just happen with no meaning or explanation that never get touched on again or contribute to the story. For example (spoilers): - What was the motivation of the heron? Why was it luring the boy? It's place in the story was never explained. (The heron could easily be replaced with any other kind of guide or plot device) - What was the point of the golden gate, didn't contribute to the story and wasn't touched on again (scenes could be removed entirely) - What's the point of the world building of fishing to feed the spirits, or the white spirit things, or the pelicans... None of this had any relevance or effect on the story, other than to point out that the creatures in the world are hungry, (it's mostly just more padding of the bloated boring story with random details) - What's the deal with the parakeets? Why are they there, why are they anthropomorphized and civilized but not the pelicans? At first what seems like just a few strange parakeets causing trouble later randomly turns out to be a whole parakeet civilisation that act as the obstacles/antagonists for the boy. This, and the parakeet king, popped up so late in the story that it once again just felt like random nonsense happening. - The boy meets the younger version of his mother, but there was no emotional weight to it, no interesting conversions. (It could have just been some random ancestor of his and the story wouldn't have been affected much) - Why was going into the step-mother's room taboo? - Why did the step-mother say she hated the boy? This was actually the only interesting interaction in the whole movie that had any kind of emotional weight and potential behind it... But it was just a throw away line that is never touched on again, never explained, never resolved, never shown to have any effect on the story or the boy. - The boy suddenly calling her "mother" and accepting her just felt like unearned character development. - Why did the parakeet king, after remarking in shock that the world depended on some random building block pieces, then proceed to quickly and randomly stack the blocks without any care, and then when that failed just destroy them? Why do this? So random. - The boy's original "call to adventure" was to save his step-mother, but that eventually got forgotten about in order to save the fire-girl. And then the story switched to being about the tower itself and passing down the control of it to him. So by the end, if I remember correctly, when the tower was falling apart the step-mother had to save herself by making her way to the portal doors herself because she was essentially forgotten about. - Why did the old lady exist in the world as a younger version of herself and as the wooden figure? The old lady returned to the real world from the wooden figure, please explain? The boy took the wooden figure on a whim, does that mean she wouldn't have made it back if he didn't do that. And what about the wooden figures of the other maids, were they just normal wooden figures? (I guess it's just trying to be magical, deep, and introspective, when really it's just more random nonsense) - Then the story pretty much just abruptly ended and left me feeling "meh". The movie had no touching scenes that would make one teary-eyed, no cathartic scenes or emotional releases, it didn't make want to think deeply about the events, or leave me wanting more. It was just the biggest "meh" movie I've seen all year. Also, the first half is just plain old boring and the movie was too long. The only thing it has going for it is the beautiful art and animation. For the people that say this movie is great, stop trying to attribute deep themes and extra meaning to the movie just because it was a Miyazaki movie. You can pretty much attribute amazing deep themes to absolutely any bad/boring movie if you do enough mental gymnastics. I am of the firm belief that if a story isn't enjoyable or triggers impactful emotions, then it's simply not worth analysing for deeper meaning. The whole point of a story having deeper meaning is for that deeper meaning to seep into forefront to actually affect people in some meaningful way. If this movie did do that for you then great, this movie was for you. If it didn't actually do that, then stop trying to prop it up as some deep meaningful movie.

good video, only quibble is that you refer to December as an autumn month when its 100% a winter month

Very high-quality and insightful analysis, thank you for your work! ^^

Best video analysis I’ve seen so far, great. Cheers.

I think telling him her experiences as she grows up is wether he there or not, if he's still there he can take it all and be her confidence, and he's not there, she can tell him as if he was.

very apt, emotional homage to a true work of art. I hope my daughter will watch this movie one day when she is far away from "the nest"

This was a really breakdown. Thank you ❤

slow cinema is just pretentious cinema end of dicussion thanks

4:08 - 4:22 Love the way you describe Frollo's contempt.

I really appreciate your channel ❤ I found you months ago through your aftersun essays

Kinda had some Warhammer 40000 vibes "My holiday in the Eye of Terror" by LMF2033419875 (sixth infantry, Imperial Guard, Krieg)

Brilliant film. Still thinking about Calum

To drive the point home even more, the production company filming Elizabeth's scene is called "Audubon Films" - the name Audubon most associated with the Audubon Society and environmental protection - or more specifically the protection of birds - which could possibly tie into the symbolism of Joe releasing the butterfly - both being associated with flight and thusly freedom

Earth Mama as well

Fallen Leaves ! ❤️‍🔥

11:21 Thank you! Just because a villain thinks they are doing the right thing doesn't make them redeemable or sympathetic. Villain who believe what they're doing is right can still be pure evil.

i regret it a lot seeing this movie after watching the trailer. goin in blind probably was best. watching the trailer we arleady know to expect the tipical white bf is not evil. this isnt just ur normal love story. still theres a lot of very beautifully written lines here

As an atheist, I wonder: What would Frolo do to me if he somehow found out about me?

The Man Lives But MONSTER Dies 👦🏻 😈

one of my favorite movies that lives in this realm of “Nothing realy happening” are the films of Kelly Reichart. I saw First Cow & Showing up and was swaddled in the warm hug of those films vibes and how slowly the characters come to actualize themselved through their relationships. Aso the films of Wong Kar Wai specifically Chunking Express. People often throw out these films as pretentious but I think filmmakers challenging audiences to contemplate themes rather than be simply entertained. Another one to check out is Person to Person a quirky ensamble piece that is just a funny vibe.

Columbus, Call Me By Your Name

I felt like I watched the whole film while holding my breath. It was incredible, beautiful and tragic. Hats off to everyone involved.

This is, by far, my favorite commentary on this beautiful film.

I watched this in the horrendous sound of airplane headphones and small screen - so I misunderstood some bits - but thoughts of the movie lingered the day after so I went and look it up. As soon as I realized what it was about it made complete sense and hit me like a ton of bricks. it was very powerful.

Yeah to give this movie a lot more respect now on the counter, it’s been officially deemed winner of best feature at 2024 Oscars.

Hollywood knows something about

Farm

Oh I thought they were vampires.

I really enjoyed this movie and your breakdown. Thank you.

The fact that you need to find help to understand this movie or at least start to get a grasp of what it is about, says a lot about this movie. Does it really need to be that confusing?

Wait... The Projectionist's name was John!?

I been waiting to see a movie like this for an adulthood. I'm korean born that moved to US when I was 6. What every movie that touch on asian experience is that America (and the west) sees asian males and asian females differently. The clear example is how the west sexualize asian women, while emasculate asian men. Asian women being submissive, innocent, cute, feminine. While asian men are foreign, a sexual, followers not leaders, invisible part of society. This is partly why there are many more white husband/asian women marriages as apposed to asian men/ white women marriages. This acceptance of asian women and not men in western society is subtle and subconscious, most won't see it. Also white males have the assumption (proven correct in most cases) they can date any single asian female. Meanwhile asian men that grew up in the US assume they need to compensate for being asian (perhaps with fashion, money, charisma). I have met few asian women that are not willing to date white men or hold strong preference for asian men. So I don't know of another movie like this where an asian man is the protagonist in a romance movie while a white man is the antagonist. I don't think it's a victory of asian male representation, I think there is a trend in Hollywood now to let aisan men be sexy. But this movie seem to subvert expectation.

Just watched this movie and it left me feeling empty, the scene from 7:00 in the video where Sophie and Calum are talking about how he moved and doesn’t ever see himself going back he says he never really felt like he belonged home and that there’s not enough sun there but Sophie says she never sees herself leaving because its home. He tells her that everything will be alright in the future but he always says for you not us, he tells Sophie she can always change her mind and that her choice was alright but I think that was his last shot at trying to save himself before she left him