I am looking forward to watching this movie once all my final assignments are done for the quarter. This video was really well done. The additional media, film clips, etc. really made this more of an experience.
Thanks, I very much enjoyed your take. Yours is easily one of the better videos analysing the movie and I shared your desire to go beyond the surface level message in my own video analysis. In my view, this horrific drive that you speak of is the deep, universal impulse for meaning and significance-chasing beauty is one way it manifests but ultimately it's the drive for a meaningful existence. Not just a drive to survive but a relentless drive to matter and to "have substance," to be valued and seen. Your take on Monsto being a sort of mash-up of compartmentalised and commodified beauty is interesting. I think Fargeat has said that Monstro was like a Picasso of beauty-fragmented and distorted, yet assembled from familiar elements. For me she's also a mash-up of all the identities that spring from the matrix over a lifetime in the drive to find meaning and significance in her life. In a sense she is a representation of this existential horror, for me Monsto wasn't what she became but what she always was behind the mask and that's what terrifies society. As Monstro she sees all aspects of herself, she see's this fragmentation that you speak of, she also see's all the layers of her identity, and she accepts them. In my reading, she's not pure compulsion until after she breaks a leg and loses her bodily form. Thanks again for a great video!
The moment of leg loss is an interesting pivot point for that. I’ll have to consider. For me, her pure drive continued but did so through what she could do - slowly inch her way to her star.
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brooks' drive to produces high quality video essays is so over-whelming that he can not stop doing it.
I did stop the video and watched the film immediately. Thank you.
I am looking forward to watching this movie once all my final assignments are done for the quarter.
This video was really well done. The additional media, film clips, etc. really made this more of an experience.
god damnit I didn't know there was gonna be assignments for this >:(
Alright, gotta watch the substance
Love how you have sprinkled in deleuzian/ baudrillardian concepts into your breakdown of the movie
Had to stop after the intro, haven't seen the movie yet and I shan't have it spoiled. Look forward to finishing the video after.
Just got outa the theatre and I'm still shellshocked.
This is really great! Thank you. 😄
Can't finish the video yet, planning on watching this this week (planned to last week but, got distracted for... reasons)
Late boost but still boosting! Haven't watched the Substance, but I shall now.
Wow. That was. I was not ready for that movie. Fuck. Thanks for the recommendation. And good video too. I think you hit all the right marks.
For the algo!
For the algorians! and have you seen From Beyond?
For the wrinkles!
And what an anxiety inducing thumbnail you have there, my pretty...not just for the women, let me tell you.
Thanks, I very much enjoyed your take. Yours is easily one of the better videos analysing the movie and I shared your desire to go beyond the surface level message in my own video analysis.
In my view, this horrific drive that you speak of is the deep, universal impulse for meaning and significance-chasing beauty is one way it manifests but ultimately it's the drive for a meaningful existence. Not just a drive to survive but a relentless drive to matter and to "have substance," to be valued and seen.
Your take on Monsto being a sort of mash-up of compartmentalised and commodified beauty is interesting. I think Fargeat has said that Monstro was like a Picasso of beauty-fragmented and distorted, yet assembled from familiar elements. For me she's also a mash-up of all the identities that spring from the matrix over a lifetime in the drive to find meaning and significance in her life. In a sense she is a representation of this existential horror, for me Monsto wasn't what she became but what she always was behind the mask and that's what terrifies society. As Monstro she sees all aspects of herself, she see's this fragmentation that you speak of, she also see's all the layers of her identity, and she accepts them. In my reading, she's not pure compulsion until after she breaks a leg and loses her bodily form.
Thanks again for a great video!
The moment of leg loss is an interesting pivot point for that. I’ll have to consider. For me, her pure drive continued but did so through what she could do - slowly inch her way to her star.