The Images That Last
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- What are the single cinematic images that have lasted in your memory, the ones that you go back to and think on again and again for no clear reason? Why do those images make the impact that they do? Do they mean anything on some sort of grander level? These are questions I think about from time to time, and I want to discuss them alongside a few memories of my own to help illustrate.
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I don't know why but the THX intro that played before the movies on VHS always scared me. Probably because the sound was eerie and it felt like something was gonna pop in the end. I still sorta get goosebumps listening to it.
Every living millennial on earth with decent hearing is afraid of that sound. You're not alone bro
This was an sublime examination on our memories of movie moments. You deserve more viewers my friend.
Agreed. Sublime is the perfect word for it.
"I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures." - John Carpenter, American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer
I completely agree, mine would be Ratatouille and GoodFellas.
For me that moment was in The Fellowship of the Ring, when Aragorn says to the Hobbits, "This was the great watchtower of Amon Sul." I've never quite been able to put my finger on it, but that was the most powerful and emotional scene in a film I have ever seen. Thank you for this thoughtful essay.
[m] That was beautiful. I definitely know where you're coming from! Just absolutely beautiful work. Thank you, genuinly. -Mikey
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Thank you for this great Video!! For me, one of these Images is the moment Chihiros father turns around in Spirited Away and she sees that her parents have turned into pigs. I first watched Spirited Away when I was six years old and that moment, which scared me a lot, has stayed with me ever since. When I watch the movie today, it still gives me a very weird feeling and makes me remember how I felt the first time I watched it.
I'm very thankful for your great work! I specially enjoyed the videos on Isao Takahata and Brad Bird. Keep it up :)
When I was a kid, I would always go to my grandparents house after school, and they would have a crate of Disney, Pixar, and Scooby Doo DVD’s. I can’t remember which movie, but everytime I watched it, there would be the trailer for the Princess of Kaguya and while I never watched it as a kid, the image of the tiny princess in the bamboo cutters hands had always stuck with me and still brings me back to those days.
I think for the most part, the reason we remember some scenes is when we reach the point of full connection and immersion in a movie. When we truly feel the presence of the scene and feel that we understand it on a deep level (even subconsciously) that it affects us. Even more so are the scenes and points in our life coupled with epiphany that make us see things in a way we never have before. I think the reason that the scene scared him(which he kinda hit on) is because he was immersed with the scene and more than that understood the angry, frightening emotion of the scene and the girl with the oar.
I want to share that the "Jacob Have I loved" trailer really rings true for me... Years ago I saw the trailer somehow and the exact same moment stuck with me. All this time. I never knew where it was from but I always remembered "the trailer where the girl tries to kill her sister with a table-leg." I remember it being stormy. I remember seeing the head being smashed in, and I still had the horror somewhere hidden away in my brain. As soon as you rolled footage of it I recognized it. Then, as you said, the moment comes and - ah, it seems so different. So much less violent.
It's pretty crazy to me that the exact same moment was ingrained in your mind. We also owned the VHS copy of Narnia and I remember watching it with my sister.
On another note I absolutely love your videos. You have really good insight and cover some really interesting points I haven't heard or thought of before. Would love to talk with you about cinema and the power of stories sometime, if you want to chat! Great work.
Bruce the Shark smiling behind Dory and Marlin still scares the shit out of me every time.
How on earth can you not have more than 80k subscribers? Every time I see one of your essays describing other peoples art it's art itself. You deserve every like twice and every subscription thrice. Keep up the good work of making art of describing art!
I think what you are describing in the case of Nausicaa, is not "Fear" but more of "Awe". Also, the one scene that stays with me in that film, is towards the end where Nausicaa is caught in the stampede of enraged Ohm. No matter how many times I see it, I break down and cry. I am so overcome by the scene, that even though I know full well the resolution, it still moves me to tears.
i have this with the bfg's dream room, such an incredibly strong memory. also a video I just saw on tv as a kid. it's a memory which a lot of people have I have learned, quite funny! I love your style. there's more perfectionist video essays on film out there which are worth noting, but I like your gentle way of speaking too. like you have nothing to prove. nice rhythm too. thanks for making videos!
Sometimes I remember the short film "Synapse", directed by Matthew Kalish. Saw it on youtube 10 years ago once, forgot it, but then I remembered the opening with the scientist talking about time and the moments in between the passing of it. It struck me as profound, and I still think of some of the images. Haven't rewatched it since I've found it again, though
When I was younger, these moments in film stuck in my mind for seemingly no reason whatsoever; however, I know exactly why they do now. Since I married and shared every thought of mine with my husband, he picks my brain after we watch a film, and I always find out why that I would have a particular reaction to any particular thing. Often times, it's personal, but there always appears to be a reason.
Oh, I saw a children's film, sort of a jungle fable about some animal that was able to camouflage and hide from the other animals, and if I remember correctly also shapeshift.
For some strange reason that filled me with a kind of enthusiastic awe, and stuck with me, even if it was sometimes buried under layers of other experiences and memories.
It was like meeting a strange alien creature, and not being yet able to comprehend what you see.
I don't have any idea what movie that was, and maybe never will. But gosh would I enjoy seeing it again.
For me, the fear based image I have from my childhood is an image of the Big Bad Wolf from an old Little Red Riding Hood book my parents had. It scared me to the point of tears from the time I was a toddler to the start of kindergarten. My equivalent to your second example was probably the episode of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" where there is an entire forest that is actually just one tree. I had never been exposed to anything like that episode or concept before
From Gareth Edwards' Godzilla there is a shot when the skydivers jump out of the plane and we see a wide shot of the whole scene. That stuck with me like a painting!!
When I was about 12 and at home sick, I watched Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage based on a Somerset Maugham story. It completely blew my mind. It was so raw and real. Years later I tried to find it again. But every version of the film was not the one I remembered. I distinctly remembered a certain line, but that line was in none of the films and I watched every version made. I realize now that my memory enhanced the movie. Either that or it’s the Mandela Effect.
There's a few for me. First, one from my childhood is a scene from Jumanji. It's the scene where young Robin Williams and young Bonnie Hunt are playing Jumanji for the first time and then Robin Williams starts to get sucked into the board game. If there is anything from my childhood that has traumatized me, it's that scene. Just watching as the tips of his fingers start getting sucked in and his horrified scream was enough to make the scene last in my mind.
Secondly, it's not a scene that scared me, just something that stuck with me, similar to the Nausicaa scene mentioned in the video. The opening credits to Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I distinctly remember the camera panning up the smokestack with Danny Elfman's fantastic score in the background. Then, the camera gets to the top and dives down the tower into the title and the swirling chocolate behind it. It's very beautiful and one of the many things that I remember about that movie, though that sticks in my mind the most.
Lastly, it's a scene recently. I was watching all of the Pixar movies because why not and it was time for Finding Nemo. We're at the point where Marlin and Dory are inside the whale and then there's two shots that stick out so much. There's a shot of Merlin on his side at the bottom of the whale's mouth and another shot at the side, with Dory looking down at Marlin. First, the shot is just beautiful on its own. But, then, I recognize this as being the exact same as the shots from the beginning when Marlin finds Nemo being the last remaining egg. Realizing that, the scene affected me so much more and I was also sort of proud of myself because I usually don't notice things like that.
That shot from Kagemusha is stuck in my head. I watched it a few weeks ago and it was the one scene that really stuck with me.
Oh my god, more of this!!!!!!!!!! Most of the time watching a video essay, the creator is trying to convince you of something, or make some point. This was so different. It was just thoughts, and questions, and it wasn’t profound. It was so relaxing to just sit back and think with you, truly think, without true aim. The bit about questions, that rings the most true. You don’t need a conclusion for this, you don’t need to know why it is or what it means or why we evolved to do this... but it’s a part of our experience of film, and that bares thought.
When I was very young, too young to remember how old I was, I was flipping through TV and I saw an image from a cartoon - a bombed out Japan, with a young boy carrying a young girl on his back. I had no idea what it was, and it stuck with me. It kept coming back to me, and I would ask other people, who also had no idea. One day I was in the local library and I found a copy of 'Barefoot Gen' and I thought 'this is it!' (I think this is how I knew retroactively that it was Japan). So I loaned the book, and devoured it, but the image that stuck with me was nowhere to be seen.
I know there's a film of 'Barefoot Gen', and I haven't seen it, but as time's gone on I'm now reasonably sure that what I saw was 'Grave of The Fireflies', but I haven't seen that either (shocking I know). However, I'm convinced that if I watched either, I wont find what I saw - my memories has changed too much, and is now more a memory of having had the memory.
Anyway, great video, keep up the good work!
Memories certainly are malleable. My sister remembers an event from our childhood which I remember her being absent from, and we certainly can't both be right. This memory caused me great distress and I have told her about it many times, but we can't both be right about whether she was actually there. Sometimes images from cinema have provoked a strong emotional response and those images then stay with me, but the curious thing is that when I see them again, sometimes years later, what I see is a mirror reflection of my memory.
I totally get you! I have this image from "The Empire of the Sun" where Jim shows up with his bike in front of a desolate Shanghai. I remember the colour of the sparks and a poster so vividly. Interestingly enough there was also an element of fear, but not an aggressive one. It was just a boy in a scary new world.
I removed certain shots but most of the time I remember a feeling more. Like a certain feeling a movie gave me and maybe certain shots will come to mind. For some reason I don’t normally attach them to one shot rather multiple different ones from the movie to create an overall feeling that strikes me whenever I think of it.
Do you know the moment in Batman 1989 where Batman opens the doors of the church right before the final showdown against the joker? When, once he opens them, the light from behind him enters the church in such a stylistic Burton-esque way? That shot, that precise image stayed in me since I watched Batman 1989 for the first time. And it always came back in different ways, whether as a scene I imagine myself, or exactly as I saw it.
My parents bought me Oddworld: Abe's Odysee when i was like five years old and several images from that game have stuck with me to this day. Whenever i see something even remotely resembling it I am overcome with dread.
Mine is that scene from what I think is Ponyo where she is running on water, I remember watching that in a trailer on a dvd in the car and having that same feeling you were talking about about with the Ghibli film.
The doors closing on the stain-glass Christ was legitimately scary.
When I was 8 I went to the movies with my mom and my older sister. My mom saw Fried Green Tomatoes and I have no memory of what my sister and I saw. What I do remember is that at some point either because our movie ended or I wanted to simply find my mom I went into her theatre and saw the scene where they raise the truck out of the water. I didn't find my mom or sit down but just stood in the dark hallway and watched. Then I went back to where my sister was. I always remembered this scene for some unexplained reason as I always remembered it was Fried Green Tomatoes. I finally saw the movie and read the book years later. Probably about 15 or 16, I waited for the one simple scene, a truck being raised out of thee water. It wasn't too anti climatic I had realized it was a silly obsessive memory. Both book and film are enjoyable and they hold a strange fascination with me still.
man it's a crazy coincidence that i also had a huge reaction to Nausicaa and Kagemusha, kind of a testament to great filmmaking.
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The made-for-TV movie called the crawlspace affected me deeply as a boy. I’m pretty sure it’s available on TH-cam,
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That scene when Mystique becomes a non-mutant and is abandoned in X-Men: The Last Stand has been stuck in my head since I was 12.
Champion...the beaten to pulp Midge hears a radio announcer proclaim "he's all washed up...he finished" etc. He gains resolve from these words, and throws himself at his opponent, retrieving victory at the cost of his life.
These are a supreme handful of resources for anyone who wants to work in the visual side of a film pipeline
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The writing could be improved, but the editing is fantastic
That feeling you got first watching Nausicaa, one related to fear but not a negative emotion like fear, is awe. In our modern society we don’t use that word much and I think it’s because we’re so overexposed to things these days with the Internet and at such a young age that many of us don’t even get to experience awe much in our lives after reaching adulthood. Seeing natural wonders can trigger it for sure.
I had a show stuck in my head and it keeps flashung in my head for no reason. I had no idea what it was called or anything but i had become a little bit obsessed with finding it again.. When i finally found what it was it was such a relief and now I have watched it again i realise .. it was actually pretty shit but it was clearly important enough to me that i have kept it in my head for over 20 years!
The final shot of the Shawshank Redemption will stay with me until the day I die.
I find it quite a bit strange that if I think about Nausicaa and Kagemusha exactly the same shots spring up in my mind. And I saw Nausicaa as an young adult and Kagemusha many years ago.
Beautiful analysis
I am not a big Dr. Who fan but grew up without cable so PBS was a big deal. The intro was very profound as was the Superman theme even though I am not a fan of Superman. Growing up in Florida shark and alligator fears were very real. The boy on the raft in Jaws was terrifying. Seeing Lake Placid as an adult the Crocodile underwater sticks with me. I saw Thunderheart with Val Kilmer when I was 12 or 13 and the part where the bad guys are celebrating shooting the little kid still fills me with rage.
As Roland Barthes would've said: you, sir, found your "punctum" in those films. I quote: "Punctum is the rare detail that attracts you to an image, Barthes says ‘its mere presence changes my reading, that I am looking at a new photograph, marked in my eyes with a higher value’."
Great content as always! Could you please tell me the title of the music in the beginning of the video? It fit's perfectly!
its memory gospel by moby
thank you for your thoughts and feelings.
I remember the first time I saw the Labyrinth. I vividly remember the feeling I had when the scene cuts, for the first time, to a screen of goblins. It scared me so much I turned off the movie, and never watched it again till I was older. When I rewatched I was amazed by how muppet-like, cute and round all the goblins were. i had imagined or remember them has hideous, disgusting creatures that were all staring right through the screen directly at me, coming to get me. There is still creepy and wonderful imagery in that film today, but it was never as scary as that memory.
To me, it sounds like your describing a form of unconscious symbols. The first image, as you say, is the first thing you really remember scaring you, the fear of the unknown; the second Nausicaa image is the wonder of the other, the alien world of the forest of corruption encapsulated in that one abiding image; and the third more recent Kagemusha scene is an image of the sacred/profound - the reverence shown to this man's life-like imitation. It seems to me you're remembering less the individual images rather than the associative, transformative feelings you experienced at those key moments, whether you could articulate them or not.
The moment in "Idle Hands", when the mom drops the phone on the floor next to her bed...and reaches down to get it, and a hand grabs her wrist, and pulls her under the bed.
I only saw that movie, once. That was over a decade ago.
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And will you please write the names of the film and director you mention in the video. Can sometimes be hard to find themselves. And plus it can give you some extra tags on Google. Continue your good work :-)
Film titles are already there, just press the CC button.
OK thanks
Great work my friend. Best from Venezuela. Keep it up.
The song is Memory Gospel by Moby.
I had this with a scene from the trailer of Cloud Atlas. I don't even remember where I saw it. But I had it in my head for years and now, last month I watched the movie (which is great, I really recommend it!) and as I was so into it and that scene came. It was like coming at the end of searching to something I never knew I was searching for and that was really weird. (Wow that sounds really cheesy tho)
Love the videos, keep up the content of this quality and you'll go far :)
Amazing video, love this channel
Please tell me what’s the name of the first song playing in the background? It’s so beautiful...
Saving Private Ryan - Opening scene - Scared soldier crying in dispair trying to hide from the bullets.
Which song is echoing in the background? Please! and thank you for the video.
the little moustache things always sticks in my mind
No you weren't blathering on. Really moved by your vid which didn't explain away the emotion as others might have done. And the nod to VHS throughout gave me a fuzzy feeling inside I'll not try to explain either. Would be fascinating to see some kind of follow up 10 years + as you allude to.
Oh my god, I have that Narnia miniseries on DVD!
2:06 the ending of Black Orpheus
The Library Ghost in Ghostbusters still sticks with me even though it's overall not that impressive.
good shit, my guy
My middle school English school class showed the film Jacob have I loved and I thought it was a boring film. I haven't seen it since though so I'm probably not giving it enough credit
Avalon - 2001
The ending is stuck with me, forever... and I don't even know why...
Song ;please
Moby - Memory Gospel
Merci beaucoup
+Radders123 George thanks you.
Very wonderful commentary. I think I know what you mean by images sticking in my head.
One of mine has been the wolf from Disney's Peter and the Wolf; whenever I hear the wolf's theme I still feel this sense of dread. But it's also tied to how absolutely terrifying this wolf is to me:
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Loved this essay. I know exactly what you mean.
Completely unrelated to your very great video, but . . . you *really* sound like an American version of KickthePJ.
Just wow.
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This moment in 28 Days later, has stuck with me through middle school. Ho-lee shite!
what is the movie at 2:06?
Hey The Royal Ocean Film Society, have you ever thought about changing the name. It's a little bit too cliche. Unless it has a special meaning to you - then I mean no offense.
If you do. How about Four Squires, Circle the movie, The Fish that Died (oh, that's too weird) Invisible Dot, [M] the Curious, Invisible the Frame.
Anyway these are just weird suggestions. Have a good day :)
Memory Gospel? Fuck yes.
For me one such image is the nazi doctor guys face melting in raiders. I was about 8 and me and a friend snuck downstairs at a sleepover to watch it on vhs. Scared the shit out of me. Only watched raiders once because that image still weirds me out.
Are you the same narrator on 'Every frame a painting' channel?
I know, right!? Sound, cadence, even phrasing sometimes feels the same.
But since I can't find any mention of a narrator, I think the creators themselves narrate.
So it would be Andrew Saladino in this one, Tony Zhou for Every frame a painting.
JHD42 I'm learning a lot about filmmaking in general from you.... May u reach a billion subs
From me?!
I'm just another fellow viewer :D
I agree though; they deserve more subs
3:08 “Teito?”
Nerdwriter did a great video on Moments vs Scenes th-cam.com/video/38Cy_Qlh7VM/w-d-xo.html
I'm not saying moments are "wrong"; everyone has favorite moments. But like Nerdwriter said, genuinely great moments come from scenes, stories, they're not just visual snapshots. Thinking back, my moments are from books.
Scariest scene I ever seen on TV comes from a movie intro. Its a Russian company VID. That intro scars you for years th-cam.com/video/hGeA97Yy0e4/w-d-xo.html // And also THC intro sound was scary and etched into my memory.
Critics are always worried about giving grades to films, when most of the time what you described in the video is the most precious thing about watching movies for me: great moments being displayed in front of you, when you're just ready to believe and accept them. Being a fan of cinema is not just a matter of watching all the movies you can get your hands on, but knowing how to enjoy moments like this, even if a movie isn't a 100% or didn't satisfy your expectations.
In 'Rosemary's Baby' there is a moment where Ruth Gordon's character answers the phone in a shot down a short hall. She moves camera right to left through the doorway, it's all we see, and we hear her speaking off camera. All the people in the theater craned their necks to look around the corner. At that moment, I have no idea how old I was, I got it and I giggled. My Dad thought it was funny too. I was hooked.
Holy shit this is so spectacularly done! I loved how you mentioned you're not going to give some college or new age cinema definition of what it all means it's just what YOU believe. And that makes it so much more real. There's too many people just stating what other people say on their videos and not giving there own opinions. Wonderful writing Andrew and also the music selection was great too I loved the song u played through the majority of this video
you ever have a memory of a movie you have seen dozens of times as a child, but cannot figure enough information to find it?? I'm waiting for the brain computer interface to find out.
Dario Ramirez yeah man, for me i remember this girl who goes to touch someones back but her hand passes right through the body and so she thinks hes a ghost but she turns out to be a ghost. i dont know if i saw it on tv or imagined it while reading a book. but yeah its annoying
Same thing here. I had a very crisp image in my head of three scenes from a movie I saw when I was really young. Took me nearly eight years to find it.
If either of you remember yours, mind letting me know just for curiosity's sake?
Not from a movie but my sister and I remember seeing a short like in between shows on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon or something; and it had a sock puppet like thing and it slowly creeps up on a table, pulls out a mini tactical knife and stabs a big chuck of ham. It didn't make any sense but was hilarious and we haven't been able to find it since.
I caught Westworld on television back in my home country. I remember that it had a cyborg without a face and that it had different settings (Mediaval, wild west)
Caught it a couple months ago (had already figured out it was Westworld though) And the image of the cyborg without a face was just what I had it mind. The medieval sections were much bigger in terms of picture scope in mind. It had wideshots, but not as much depth. Interesting experience about how you mind makes things up. And more interesting is me being capable of remembering the basic plot.
Vegaspsycho Oobi? Lol
For me it was the trailer to "Castle in the Sky".
It's a girl in a blue dress with a long crystal necklace standing on a hill. Slowly she begins to float on her back with the wind blowing her skirt and braids. Never saw the movie, but I want to some day.
Hermin Lionel I caught castle in the sky one afternoon after school and unlike other animations it amazingly went on and on and on and I kept watching -- and the scenes set on the castle in the sky have stuck with me years later. A mesmerisingly beautiful work.
The movie is probably not the "best" of the Ghibli bunch, but that cold-opening scene is still the single best opening that I can remember. Especially in the original Japanese language; for some reason in the American dub they have major-key music playing during the opening seconds, but in Japanese the opening seconds are just dead silence, then you slowly hear the humming and slicing of the propeller engines as the airship comes into view, a solid minute is spent just showing details of the ship with nothing but that sweet steam-punk engine churning through the wind .... and then something appears through the nearby clouds, then the DUN DUN DUN music appears uninvited as the air-pirate assault begins. Then you have the government guys on board that seem to be guarding the girl with the necklace, but then the girl with the necklace bashes the government dude in the back of the head and up and elopes on both the government guys AND the pirates ... then you realize "okay, there's a lot more going on here than initially thought" ... then she falls disappearing into cloud and her scream fades out of earshot ... then the opening credits start. That's the most badass hook of a cold-opening I ever seen ... rivaled only by Gandalf's fall-fight in Two Towers ... hmm ... seems falling is a theme.
It's actually my favorite of the Ghibli films. If you still haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and see it now.
In Zen Buddhism it is the question rather than the answer that holds the key. Thanks so much for your questions!
DID YOU JUST CALL NAUSICA PULP FANTASY
The image of the parents in Spirited Away turning into pigs haunt me to this day.
same, saw it when I was 6
I was just thinking about that woah
I have a Miyazaki one too. It's that demon boar god made of worms and it's glowing red eyes from Princess Mononoke. It don't have a fearful memory of it burned into my mind...more of an awe. It was something that appealed to me when I was young, but something I couldn't understand fully. I think that may be a part of it. We latch on to what we don't fully understand, especially when we're young. For me the idea of corruption plays in there as well. The idea that something good can shift to the other side of the spectrum. Like you, I don't want to throw around any grad student like answers so I'll stop there.
You too? When I first wached it, I missed the beginnig. But the black, wormy arm or the dying god in or the kodama in the forest... Seems like Miyazaki is a creator of such moments.
You've got something special that I really enjoy. Thank you for the video.
I watched Les Triplettes de Belle-Ville for the first time when I was about 5-6 years old, so I think I understand exactly your experience with Nausicaä. Althought I enjoyed it, it was completely new and strange. I can't describe the feeling. A lot of images from that film got stuck in my head, especially the first time we see Souza's grandson as a grown up.
Another one that I always remember is Travis Bickel staring into a glass of water with aspirin in Taxi Driver.
But the image that i got more stuck in my head is a moment from Spirited Away when a weird guy/creature is smoking a cigarette by a window.
before you guys skip to the end, just wanted to save you the trouble, nothing scary happens which is the point of the video.
@KreativeKill thanks bro
i know, but im not going to explain the entire thing. just letting ppl know to skip to the end since you dont have to watch the whole video to get the point
Absolutely love this.
This was a beautiful, moving, exploration. Sent shivers down my spine.
Nausicaa was a similar experience for me except that I was so young when I first watched it that I don't think the title or even the full storyline registered with me. I would just sometimes see flashes of the creatures with the clear half domes eyes and also (curiously enough) the scene at 4:18 where she loads the rifle, and these flashes would also be accompanied by a hint of that certain feeling that I probably first felt watching the film so long ago. It wasn't until recently when I was on a ghibli binge that I realized all those images at the back of my mind were from that particular movie. And watching it again I also found the world and story to be much... smaller than I remembered? Because in my memories it seemed so vast and mysterious and daunting.
Is it possible that the first anime movie scene that stuck with you, held fear because of the trypophobia aspect of the stone holes to the left?
For me it was Gummo, I saw a little bit of it as a little kid. Such a strange and disturbing film that stuck with me so long
can me me get a song title plz?
Moby - Memory Gospel
What movie is that very last scene from? The one of the man in the theater