I had the opportunity to ask Peter Beagle which character in the Last Unicorn he identified most with. An while he admitted that each character holds a bit of himself, it was the butterfly that held the most. With it's bits of song and poetry, it seems to be a scattered, random thing, but in fact, if you listen closely, there is a cohesiveness that runs deep in everything it says. You can spend hours picking apart and debating it's monologue but still put only a dent in it's depths. He is a man of many stories, even in simple conversation.

Miracle and Mirror DO share a root though! :D They both derive from "mirare", meaning 'wonderful'

I love The Last Unicorn. Its one of my favorite novels and movies. As a child, I was mostly just excited by the prospect of unicorns and magic, of good vrs evil, but it's so much more than that. As an adult, I can better appreciate the nuances Beagle was playing with and that you discussed so well here, the way truth and myth are interconnected. It kind of reminds me of that quote from V for Vendetta - Artists use lies to tell the truth... I also love the way the story feels so melancholy. There's a feeling of the character's being trapped, as being forced to march to their inevitable fates. The scene in the cave as they are searching for the Red Bull captures it well. The characters are bound to the structure of the story to follow it and their quest through - "Unicorns may go rescued for a long time, but not forever." I...Oh Man, I have so many feelings about this as you can probably tell. Anyway, great job! I now want to go watch The Last Unicorn again.

This channel is criminally under watched, your insight is fantastic and your editing is crisp and flowing. Please keep up the amazing work.

"A lie may travel half the globe while the truth just put its boots on." "The truth must dazzle gradualy, lest every man be blind." Those two lines brought in conjunction over The Last Unicorn in this brilliant analysis. This is awe inspiring stuff! All my friends say: Don't sub over the first video. But I cannot help myself!

This reminds me of a line from an anime called Princess Tutu spoken by a character named Adel, "Truth is a shy little thing, if looked for it will hide, Truth is a lonely little thing, if fled from it will give chase."

The Last Unicorn is in my feed suddenly, reminding me to rewatch it, then to buy a copy and hide it in my walls with the other illegal truth.

A fickle thing, the wandering dream, lying in its bed. Filled with meaning, seemingly speaking, yet quiet as the dead. Pray tell when sleep has fell, what breaches the light of day? But glimpses and glamours of symbols we stammer to capture the fading Fey.

I grew up with the movie and only this year finally got to read the book. Hardly a chapter into it, i excitedly told a coworker how wonderful the book was and how it felt like instead of being one continuous story rather multiple small poems that created a story. And seeing that confirmed in your video made the little analyzer in my brain so happy!

This is a book I re-read every few years or so, and a movie I have been consistently re-watching since childhood. I really enjoyed this analysis.

This is genuinely better than most of my essays and I'm studying for a PhD in Literature 😂 well done!

What a treasure this book/movie is. As an adult, it speaks volumes to me about searching out wholeness, both within and without, in myriad ways. I rarely ever seek out the books movies are based off of but in this case those excerpts are absolutely entrancing.

the last unicorn was my favourite movie from at least the age of 5, then my favourite novel from the age of 17. i felt it told my story and identity with it so much. i don’t know how i stumbled across this video but ive been watching it on repeat trying to soak up every single thing you’re saying and im crying each time.

Came here from TBSkyen Shorts, thank you. This made me cry and I couldn't tell you why

It's about true love and sacrificial love. From a 43 year old and this is my favourite film ever

i really liked Danny Sexbang's cover and The Dom's review of the animated film , i hope by watching this essay i learn more about this story's substance. EDIT: omg Miss Lee , this was an amazing essay!! very well done visual and text synch , very immersive and dare i say existential.

This was such a refreshing treat. Analysis like this are difficult to find in video format. I'm grateful to have found your channel..

Every couple of months I pull this essay up. I think it's a wonderful insight into the novel and uses its various texts to spin a fascinating deconstruction of the nature of truth and fiction and the gradient of the two. Personally, it calms me. It pulls me out of my chaos. Thank you for making a thing that I can turn to in the moments that make me feel incapable of processing what I experience in my day to day, by reminding me that it's just a part of things and it need not be the thing that swallows me whole, but something I can observe.

Here from TBskyen's recommendation, your work is such a gem!

You're doing such good work. I'm so excited to see what else you've got coming.

The last unicorn was my favorite movie to watch when i was small, 1-4 years old i would rewatch on the VHS it was my favorite, I can see how it affected me nowadays lol

I haven't read or watched The Last Unicorn, but I have a childish fascination for stories about stories, and for the idea of truth and its presentation, so I'll admit some passages (of your original script) moved me quite a lot. Guess I'll have to give this book a read. On a separate topic; you certainly have a way with words, if I miss a single one is as if the whole sentence and the idea therein escape me.

This was so mesmerizing and poetic! I wonder how do you find such interesting topics for your videos?

Interesting topic, as always. Keep the great work. I have a friend that loves anything with unicorn in the tittle so I will share this with her.

Thank you for highlighting (through details) the _Second_ tapestry in "The Hunt of the Unicorn." (aka 'The Unicorn is Found'). It's my favorite episode in that story, but it so often gets overshadowed by the last tapestry: "The Unicorn in Captivity."

For me this is really interesting as the topic can be connected to those of us who are autistic. It's very hard for us to tell lies or even to exagerate and that sort of thing puts others off. We prefer the whole truth and exageration or half truths or masking emotions are very hard concepts for us. We might be able to tell it's a lie but not what part of it is and what part is truth like others can. Others percieve truth subconciously I think that's what this movie and book illistrate. I percieve everything conciously. This movie in fact makes me very anxious I can't watch it all the way through it also makes me incredibly sad but I am fasinated by it. Thank you for making this video.

I watch this so often, it is so well made

I come back to this video all the time. No one else has so succinctly distill why I love poetry, magic, and this movie in particular. Thank you so, so much for making it 🔮💖🦄

Bro I am going through your older video essays and I just wanted to tell you that I love you. Thank you for putting so much work into these, I deeply appreciate it. And like;;;;; how do you keep picking bombass topics what's your secret?? Anyway, I LOVE YOU Also that quote by Joyce Oates about prose being spoken out loud whereas as poetry is overheard took me out, I'm done for. I speak to you from beyond the grave.

This is absolutely, overwhelmingly extraordinary. Rarely am I so excited to see what will come from a creator.

Great video, these themes are explored well in Mason & Dixson by Pynchon but from a more Historical slant, highly recommended.

Latin rhinoceros unicornis also called one horned rhinoceros. They are in India, Nepal and some other parts of Asia.

Actually, if you watch the cut in the film, there's a visual gag after his little comment about being a cat and never giving a straight answer. He moves the eyepatch from one eye to the other, showing that he has both eyes. He's lying.

Years later and I still come back to this video over and over. It's a beautiful exploration of one of my favorite novels of all time. And this is my favorite video on youtube. Your whole channel is excellent, of course.

Never scene the movie, never read the book, but I definitely feel like I have been missing out! Thanks for introducing me to this!

Is truth a concept? A reality made by humans' hands for humans' eyes to be interpreted? I really like your vids, you could get inspiration from philosophical topics.

Incredible!

thank you for giving me another possible perspective/reason as to why i use metaphors to often. I feel like it is another way to view the truth by making an illusion, or rather allusion, to something more easily understood. Its like a stepping stop to guide a conversation, but should not act as the destination of the conversation

i've had this video buried in my watch later playlist for years, deciding that the title and thumbnail alone were interesting enough to make me want to see the movie first and then come back to watch this video. well after putting it off for several years, last night i finally decided to watch the movie and then watching this video today the day after. i went into the movie completely blind knowing absolutely nothing about it but i really enjoyed it! for some reason i assumed it was gonna be a much darker story so when i saw it i was pleasantly surprised by its fantastical and magical nature. ***slight spoilers below in-case the person reading this hasn't seen the movie yet!!*** my two favorite scenes from the movie were when the unicorn was first turned into a woman and lamented the fact, wishing that the magician had rather let her die either to the bull at this time or even earlier to the harpy, and when the lady companion (i forget her name sry) asks the magician to turn her back he responds by saying that he can't and that she'll have to wait until the time is right and it's out of his control, but he promises it will probably only be for a while that she remains in this form. the other scene was the song where she sings "i was innocent and wise, and full of pain. now that i'm a woman, everything is strange." as a trans person that very recently got into hormone replacement therapy after having had to apply, wait a year, get denied, apply again, wait another year, get denied again, apply AGAIN, wait ANOTHER year and then finally being approved, those two scenes really spoke to me. your video on the movie was great! i didn't know it was based off of a novel but now that i know that i think i'll put it on my reading list and try to get myself a copy, knowing me tho it won't be until in a few years time but when i do and i've finished reading it maybe i'll try to remember to write another comment here about what i thought of it! anyway i just wanted to say thank you for making this video and making this girl feel a little bit better about herself all these years later, cheers!

your work is amazing

I've loved both this book and movie since I was young. They're incredibly dear to me. Seeing this video was completely unexpected and I'm emotional with gratitude. It truly is beautifully written and this video examines why from an angle I hadn't seen before.

this is so beautiful and so well articulated! definitely want to go watch the last unicorn again and read the book now

Just brilliant, as always. You definitely deserve more recognition, you’ll no doubt get there eventually though, with quality videos like these. I’m sure of course that isn’t priority for you but it already is well earned! Thanks for the content!

You deserve way more subs, jeez. Great topic! I love your ability to catch subtle literary details for your highlights, Peter would appreciate that I think.

Wonderful. Thank you. This is one of my favourite childhood movies and the book, and I watched over and over, resonated with me very young. As an adult I am not surprised.

This was such a beautiful and respectful ode to The Last Unicorn and all its magic

I used to watching the animated film when I was younger. A lot of it flew over my head then, but watching your video really made me want to re-watch it. Nice work!

I think while I agree with much of this analysis that it should be mentioned that a big focus of this work is mortality and ultimately legacy. The talk of fables and myths is more of the pattern of how different characters are trying to become immortal (such as why Mommy Fortuna captures the mythical beasts.)

Fantastic video about an enchanting story. Excellent editing and voiceover.

Once more with a video I didn't know I needed until I've watched it. You'll certainly see me again next time.

This is absolutely beautifully put together... you must be a legend lol ❤️🧡💛

I wasn't expecting this but at the same time I should have since you have dealt with this kind of subject before. Good work, each video just gets better and better.

I keep coming back to this video, it's just a such a great piece of work...

Amazing video! Thank you :)

Excellent work by the way.

That was fabulous, thank you.

I just discovered your channel from this video, and I think you deserve more subscribers. Your analyses are really well articulated and researched, and thank you for covering The Last Unicorn and showing me aspects of a book and film that I love, but have never thought about on this level.

The imagery used in the videos, what you're saying and the calm, melodic way you say it is all so wonderful. Great work!

"Here's a riddle. When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: whenever you want it to be." this is my favourite quote from McGee´s Alice. And I think the same can be said about reality and illusion. Tired of boring modern reality? Spice it with fairy tale characters! :) And this is how sci-fi/fantasy/sci-fantasy is being created.

Fantastic work, as always!

This is so beautiful, so perfectly expressed. Thank you.

Just discovered your channel today, and I'm very, very impressed by your insights and smooth presentation! Looking forward to watching more!

Nice editing job! I love the Last Unicorn. It's such a complex story and has lots of hidden meanings. Thanks for sharing!

Very insightful.

My first video of yours and I’m blown away with how much of a treat it was to listen to and watch.

Thank you, I completely adored this!

You make such wonderful videos. Thank you!

i've been hoping you'd do the last unicorn!! thank you!!!

I really love your videos! There's always a time were I can't help but shiver, the realisation of what you just said and what it may imply sinking in... And as always, the editing goes perfectly with what you're saying! Thank you for making such wonderful video essays.

This was impeccable! Thank you!

Your content never ceases to amaze me - thoughts and feelings about each subject you take on are interesting and well interpreted. Thanks for creating

One of the best videos i've seen in a long time.

thank you again. Only watching this video now, but besides the flow of the argument you present, the cadence and image editing you do in your videos are always very pleasing.

allways entertaining and and enchanting I love your craft!

Another awesome video, thanks! You deserve so much more exposure it's disheartening :( Keep it up!

This is beautiful and inspiring. A whole new way of thinking about this classic, amazing tale.

This was brilliant. Wow. Thank you for opening my eyes to one of my favorite movies off all times.

Great video as always. It sounds like TLU covers ideas that I've been very fascinated by. I'll check it out sometime.

amazing work

This was lovely to watch.

I don't get why you don't have more views, this is so good! I will share.

this was SOOO good

This is truly great.

I'm not sure I buy any of your analysis, but I'm upvoting it anyway. :)

Here from Skyen!

excellent video, i have watched this movie countless times but I never picked up on this.

This is superb

i love your videos

this was awesome, one of my favourite books and loved that you linked it to Emily Dickinson. Lovely work 💗

my most favourite. Thank you friend.

Shout out to TB Skyen recommending you! Great video :D

BOI!!!! YOU ARE SO UNDERAPPRECIATED!!! I love this.

Hi, new sub. This was great. I took notes.

i feel unable to comprehend but ill be danmed if i don't at lest try

This is beautiful

very high quality

That was amazing

Its been a while, such great work :D

This is the only movie to ever give me nightmares. That bull was scary. Great videos.

I think I'm in love with you. Thanks for this