Hey, on the bright side, easy engagement. Downside: a bunch of people yelling at you. So it goes.

Have you seen shin Godzilla Mr Joel?

It is a great series of videos. It also encourages a kind of lateral thinking. Stepping back and viewing seemingly disconnected events or ideas and finding the ways they do in fact connect to each other and inform each other.

which videos are the others in this series?

@@boldofyou1094 show some respect 😜 it's Big Joel

You can't help but ask "is 'you can't help but think/ask' a rhetorical device he uses to further his point towards a conclusion he stamps with 'and the answer is...'?" And the answer is... yes.

@@foggy0 it made sense to me after a couple reads, i think it's written to be confusing

But I am always glad that he does think or ask :)

@@paulhorneschillings1212 f(g(x))=

Literally why I love his channel! He always takes it somewhere I’m not expecting at all!

I think that Serizawa sacrifices himself in part because he realizes the parallel. We're shown the moment when he decides to do it: it's when they're watching scenes of Godzilla's destruction on TV. That's the sort of devastation his own work could cause. From his perspective, if Godzilla must die, so must he. It's chilling to watch a person come to the conclusion that he himself cannot be allowed to live.

"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too big, too strong, too heavy for their own good. That is their tragedy." Ishiro Honda.

@@zillafire101 Zillaflare that was beautiful! It is a shame we are going to have to put you to rest.

Well said. 👍

But Godzilla has essentially given up at the end. And he is just a sad animal who wants to eat and survive. Warfare isn't a creature, it doesn't have a life of its own. It's just people. Not saying you are wrong with your interpretation, maybe just that I disagree with the message. Especially since the Japanese started the war for reasons of pure greed and imperialistic bloodlust. Maybe the reality of war was just not well understood by the populace until then. We already had the ability to wipe a city off the map, it just took a lot more planes and a lot more bombs. Maybe their ignorance lead them to believe we had entered a new era when in fact we had entered it decades before. It just came to roost on their doorstep

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 I get what you are saying. I was thinking more like "If one bomb does this, imagine a carpet bombing of them. You could annihilate cities and their surrounding suburbs and the countryside." And from there we escalate to countries, and then continents. Like, the ultimate weapon opened pandora's box of truly unfathomable firepower. Godzilla had given up at the end but that's with the new knowledge on mankind's side that Godzilla could just come back again later, maybe. We need to eliminate the possibility of this kind of devastation entirely because we can't survive it again, most likely

I see Godzilla as the fundamental forces of nature that modern man is at last able to awaken, destroy and be destroyed by. He's not The Bomb but closer to The Atom. That's why someone like Yamana can see his potential for good.

Japanese themselves had nukes. Stop taking Japanese apologism seriously, it is like sympathizing with Germany getting bombed. What you are doing is akin to heeding the words of NeoNazis except Japan itself is a NeoNazi as a whole nation. *You would sympathize a murderer crying about police brutality?* Japan had 2 nukes of their own on top of chemical and germ bombings of Asian cities for years (conventional city bombing goes as far back as 1914 Siege of Tsingtao, so for 31 years Japan butchered entire cities). 1/3 of the 250,000 nuclear casualties of both cities, were foreign slaves + foreign slaves forced to clean up for Japan and their bodies dumped in the Ocean to hide Japanese war crimes and blame it on America. Hiroshima was Japan's poison gas production hub, Nagasaki was a giant Mitsubishi slave war factory complex. Yet Japan does everything it can to hide this. 2 Nagasaki mayors were assassinated just for saying their government was to blame for getting their city nuked. (1990 Hitoshi Motoshima, and 2007 Iccho Itoh. Motoshima barely survived an exact bullet to the heart. Even as an ultranationalist xenophobe right winger he was not forgiven so he was shot). 250,000 was the number of how the Japanese personally invaded Quzhou in China and butchered people by their "holy yamato spirit samurai katanas." In one city alone. The government itself STILL teaches the Japanese to be unremorseful but keep on scapegoating others when they themselves murdered 30 million just in WW2 alone, starting in 1937. Did you know Japan was developing nukes and Germany was not? F-Go and Ni-Go. 1 Billion Asians cheered at their timely liberation from the massacres, cannibalization _(2 of 3 million Japanese soldiers experienced cannibalism. It was so rampant that there were even official rules from Daihon'ei high command on the correct way to cannibalize, like never eat a fellow soldier, eat the slaves and natives instead)_ and human experimentation and only a few of the 500,000 girls in the span of 30 decades according to Griselda Molemans, were sent to officially built sex slave camps where each girl got rape quotas from 40 to 80 men per day, many were knifed with their unwanted, forcibly impregnated fetuses, or at the end of war, many who just barely managed to survive were killed anyway and buried in a ditch or dumped in the sea anyway so Japan can play victim. When Jan Ruff O'Herne in the 90s came forth with other few surviving victims in the 90s, the Japanese and Japanese Australians called her a racist bigot against the poor innocent Japanese who are nothing but victimized angels. The Japanese government has for decades paid off anyone around the world who agreed to erect memorials remembering the 500,000 violated girls from 35 nationalities. While Germany in contrast, actually encourages erecting Holocaust memorials in all the continents. Holocaust memorials exist in 40+ nations today iirc. In fact Germany refused to take it down a few years back, and the city council were bombarded with Japanese government using false German accounts sent emails using poorly translated German using suspiciously Japanese idioms in literal translations. Countless babies were able to be born because the war ended then and there. Millions of slaves were liberated thanks to America, and they were able to get married and have children. I am one of them. Just 5 years in Vietnam alone, Japan butchered 2 million, and 1 million of them were just in the last 10 months, because the more the Japanese were losing the more they took it out and butchered others to make up their losses. This all ended with Japan's surrender. Look here, are the lives of these victims so worthless that you'd sympathize 30 million over 1% of the people who killed them? *You would sympathize a murderer crying about police brutality?* Are you going to sympathize with Germans too? I know some Jewish families who despite being apologized for multiple times, still made it a family rule nobody is ever going to buy any German products, ever. Are these people just bitter butthurt idiots for not loving Germans then? Unlike Germany, all the Japanese soldiers were allowed to rob and steal and kill victims on their way back to Japan and most were not prosecuted. 30 million were killed. Also, the same political families from WW2 are still ruling Japan, and have on multiple occasions in public rallies, said they will kill again and Taro Aso the 2nd man in charge of the same one-party rule that has been ruling since 1955 especially, said numerous times he will be there to shoot them himself as he used to be a shooter in the Olympics (his family wealth came from WW2 slave labor and he is proud of it). And the people keep on electing them for decades and decades. The "Japanese Civilians" fallacy shows you think they are separate. Japanese civilians are largely retired invaders who have been warring in Asia since 1870. Note that even in 1945, 3 million of 70 million Japanese were soldiers, this massive size of the army many times normal size was only able to be supported by invading and robbing 12+ nations. Their fathers were invading soldiers, their grandfathers were invading soldiers. They also were slavers beating foreign slaves in their war factories, and the families that gleefully sucked and grew fat on the blood of others. Japanese civilians, not the military, murdered (6000 foreigners were lynched by Japanese civilians in 1923, blamed for the Earthquake. All the while taking relief aid from America, then answering with bombing USS Panay and bombing Pearl Harbor to force America to lift export bans on Oil. Yes, *THIS IS THE REAL WAR FOR OIL.* They needed oil badly to continue the war in China so they invaded Vietnam for grain and Indonesia for oil when US refused to further empower the Japanese war machine.), robbed, and enslaved them to death worse than Porsche, Krupp, and Nestle. In fact, at the end of the war, slaves were murdered so they can't talk about reparations (example 5000 Koreans were tricked to go aboard a ship that was supposedly "heading home" were packed onto the Ukishima which was sailing off course then deliberately blown up from a delayed charge from the inside some time after ALL the Japanese crew disembarked on life rafts, then blamed on American depth charges when they weren't even there) while Japan play the race card and start incriminating Americans. It didn't work until the 90s. The Germans time and time again repeatedly say the civilians are also to blame, but Japanese will do everything they can to scapegoat. It's ingrained in their culture since the bloodthirsty feudal samurai oppression where they taxed people 3 times the average contemporary ratings and even Nobuhiro Sato in the 19th century gave specific numbers per region, of infanticides and concluded 1/3 of Japanese households were killing a baby each year (note that this was an era before contraceptives existed). To make money for their "progress" they continued their Karayuki-san ("Miss-Gone-to-China" where "Kara" did mean China but also used as a catchall term for all things foreign) human trafficking all over Southeast Asia. This is no small money because even big politicians like Yukichi Fukuzawa (featured on the old 10,000 yen note) and the like have noted them, and praised their "(involuntary) sacrifice for Japan" and euphemized them as "Joshigun (Army of Girls)". 300,000 Karayuki-san were sacrificed in the Meiji Restoration period alone, pimped out by their own men. _(This is just an extension of what Oda Nobunaga started in the 1500s. He earned money to import muskets to gain a edge over his enemy Japanese, by setting up Japanese brothels in Philippines so he can use the money to fund his war to kill more Japanese. Soon his rival samurai all started following his example so as to not lose the rabid arms race. Blood thirsty samurai oppressors selling girls to Portuguese slavers for muskets became so rampant Hideyoshi, Oda Nobunaga's successor warlord, officially had to ban this and said samurais must instead pirate, capture and sell foreign girls for muskets instead. It was in this time, also, that Luis Frois, a Portuguese missionary, traveled and wrote what he saw in Japan, and he wrote that mothers of Japan would kneel on their babies' throats if they thought they couldn't feed them, and the practice was so common that women didn't think much of it, and rationalized it that this is returning babies back to the spirits and demons, because babies didn't count as full humans yet. The practice was called MABIKI and it was done right into the late 19th century and even early 20th century in the more rural areas)_

One thing I don't see brought up often with Godzillas sequels is that of learning to live with it. As you said, more of the world was running on nuclear energy, originally a means of conveying death became a means of providing for people instead, so godzilla becoming a heroic (albeit, still very destructive) force made sense in the 70's. He reflects the atomic age and peoples attitudes changing over time about it. Shin Godzilla people live with it, almost as if its just another thing everyone accepts and can't deny, a frozen monument.

I would say Godzilla vs Hedorah was a definitive heel turn for the character for the rest of the Showa era, especially considering the film is literally meant to represent the superiority of nuclear energy to non-renewable resources and the effects pollution will have on the world if we don't prioritize nuclear energy. Godzilla is portrayed as much more intelligent than previously shown as well.

That's such a bizarre response... considering Japan's government actually handled the failures of Fukushima with care. Prior to disaster, the Japanese government warned the plant about necessary infrastructural changes, for failure prevention. During the incidence, the people within the potential radiation zone were evacuated to safety. Now, in the aftermath, they've carefully measured radiation levels and gradually marked out the returning safe zones. If anything, I'd say the best criticism would be towards the power company responsible for failing safety measures, or to the Japanese government for not being more strict with that particular company, especially after their failure. But Attack on Titan was also suggestive in ways that I doubt the author intended (I'm guessing because he isn't Jewish and hasn't read many Jewish authors), so it's probably just a misinterpretation, again.

Absolutely not true. The 80s Godzilla films are also concerned with nuclear weapons through the lens of the cold war. And he is a villain or anti-hero(similar to GvK) in most of those too. In fact, Shin Godzilla is directed by Shinji Higuchi, together with Anno, who did the sfx on Godzilla from 1984 which was another film in the style of 1954 and a direct sequel.

@@tvsonicserbia5140 yeah i find it a bit weird the heisei films were completely glossed over here, particularly 84 and Destroyah, which the latter connects directly to the first film and ends with tokyo being completely irradiated.

This reminds me of the argument over the interpretation of Lucifer in John Milton's epic poem: Paradise Lost. For hundreds of years scholars have argued whether Lucifer represents Charles the first, a king Milton hated (and wrote pamphlets to defend regicide in light of) or Oliver Cromwell, the puritan leader Milton had once so ardently supported, yet had become totally disillusioned by towards the end of his life. Both interpretations work and both are well supported by both textual and historical evidence. Some Milton scholars may learn from Godzilla. By allowing two interpretations to hustle for the star spot, we enable a drawing of similarity between the two. We enable a synthesis of ideas that may not be directly possible from the text itself. Perhaps, then, Godzilla is both the issue of imperial modernity and the bomb. Perhaps these two are inseparable, and together create that which the bomb cannot destroy: destruction itself.

@Kyuzo In the first four words of my comment, I immediately attribute the reading to somebody else, so "you're reaching a bit" doesn't make sense. To your point, I don't think the fact Ifukube reused the themes in later films necessarily challenges this reading at all. His work for Godzilla absolutely dwarfed the popularity of his other work as an orchestral composer, it practically made his career and was the original score for the film that launched a global franchise: it would not surprise me in the least if he (and/or his directors) came to see his themes for Godzilla as "iconic signature franchise themes", to be utilised in the manner of, say, John Williams' themes for Star Wars, Jurassic Park, etc. If anything, this directly parallels the way Godzilla as a character was originally created and utilised with specific artistic intentions, but is used very differently in subsequent films, even by the same directors.

@Kyuzo stanley tucci can indeed reach higher in my opinion

That's incredibly interesting to me as a musician & a huge Godzilla fan; I haven't heard that before. I always attributed the more bombastic music in Gojira to represent humanity, their efforts to defeat Godzilla, & to come together as a species, not to Godzilla himself. I've came to that conclusion based on how the same motifs were used by Ifukube himself in subsequent films where Godzilla is either anti-hero or straight-up hero who either fights with humanity or in place of humanity to defend against real evil, as opposed to the evil force Shodai-Goji was believed to be in the first film. If that's really how Ifukube saw the character from the complete onset, it really only further enforces Godzilla's Showa Era character arc from perceived evil to national hero & icon in some pretty interesting & complex ways. Thank you so much for sharing!!

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. Romans 1:17

y’know i keep forgetting to watch on Nebula

@hope. Don’t care

RUn, RUN, RUUNNN, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD RUN

5 more minutes plz

i’m up i’m up

Great interpretation

Ohh, is THAT what the significance of the scientist they mention at the beginning was supposed to be?? I've watched that movie twice, and I love it, but I could never figure out what the meaning of the suicidal scientist was supposed to be to the story. Your theory makes sense, thank you!

I havent seen that movie since I was in high school, and a lot of the detail that Shin Gojira is packed with just flew over my head. I knew it too, but I blamed the language barrier. I didn’t know THAT’s why Godzilla attacked!!! I gotta rewatch it with fresh eyes!

Oh shit... is there anything written about that interpretation of the scientist? I'd be interested in reading it. I didn't know that was related to godzilla attacking. That actually adds some weight to the lyrics of the song that plays when godzilla is destroying the city. It makes him a kind of avatar of destruction on behalf of the scientist.

I didn't clock the connection with the scientist but that totally makes sense.

Yeah, I found it very confusing but interesting. The only thing I could think of to help me make sense of the part where he's talking about "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" was the Hindu idea that all living things are embodiments or mouthpieces of "God", and that consciousness is basically the same for all living things, the only things distinguishing us are our experiences. But I still don't think I fully grasp what Joel is saying about the movie, I would probably have to watch it and then rewatch this video.

i understood it as the idea that time changes us. we are no longer the person we were yesterday, nor the person we will be tomorrow.

One of the central teachings of Buddhism is anatta, "non-self." Learning to see the world like a Buddhist involves spending a lot of time un-becoming whatever you consider to be your "self."

@@benv3049 at least the perspective I've always been in contact with, is that no-self is the understanding of you existing through your interactions with others and the world. No-self just mindfulness towards others and the actions you can control. Dont have to get rid of who you are to understand your place in interaction with the environment. Ofc never fact I'm sure it's perfectly fine to practice differently lol

@@JLittleBassI’m not Hindu but honestly that’s sorta how I see things.

real

Many people are saying this.

Sometimes in the big blanket, you move slightly to try to get more comfortable and you suddenly find a fold of fabric that feels shockingly, jarringly much colder than the rest of it, and it essentially immediately confronts you to “pay” some additional amount of discomfort and/or conscious effort in order to either warm up that spot with your own body heat by dealing with it directly, or reconcile with the cold spot by shifting everything around again until the spot is now being consciously held in a new-but-more-comfortable position.

Medium Joel is like a nice pair of pajamas

You got that right, Booby Champ!

I watched the original and the americanized back-to-back and honestly, it was a poignant experience. The dub feels like a totally different film and a midquel, and shows the dissonance between perspectives of the bombed and the bomber.

It was Raymond Burr that was cut into the American version

@@alearnedman Raymond Burr is Perry Mason, it's the name of his long running tv character

@@alearnedman Fully aware of the actor, I said it so people understood who I was referring too ugh

I mean that is literally true for most stories anyway, most protagonists are characters created by an author, literally a figment of their imagination.

thanks for pointing that out, i was actually kind of confused what the point of including I'm Thinking Of Ending Things was here

The book makes that ambiguity more clear tbh

The commentary around Mulholland Drive is pretty similar. No allowance of nuance, just an attempt to tease out one definitive interpretation of the narrative as if was a Rubik’s Cube.

@@MCArt25 right. The part of the script like “a figment of your imagination can’t be confused by what’s going on?” made me go “but that’s what 90% of my author pals are doing..!”

im convinced he is being held hostage in a mansion

He is becoming Jack in the Overlook Hotel.

It's the variety of location and angle imo, it makes me examine the scene.

Oh wooow the idea of bringing the self you wish you'd become to meet your parents packs a PUNCH. What a read.

This is amazing. Also, conceptualizing one self as a rotting pig might be the most brutal metaphor for body-dysphoria, I ever witnessed.

A lot of Kaufman's movies revolve to greater or lesser extents around characters who either literally transition (Being John Malkovich), or are about older men who have failed self conceptions of themselves strongly tied to gender (Anomalisa, Synecdoche) or in Antkind where the entire plot of the book spirals out from the protagonist searching for an early transgender film and breaking down from a failing self image around his gender race, class etc. I like Thinking of Ending Things because it's an adaptation, and like the actual movie Adaptation, the most important part is how it differs from the source material. His strongest trans (egg?) work to date.

i miss when people would just accept themselves and not get reconstructive surgery cause they cant come to term with reality

@@cunktclappr3368 Hate to break it to you man, the only reason people "accepted themselves back then" was because you'd be fucking murdered for it if you did or there was no feasible way to actually get reconstructive surgery. I really hate the notion that things just suddenly "pop into existence" when they've been a thing for a very very long time (and just haven't had the chance to actually be put out into the open for, yknow, obvious reasons).

Tokyo S.O.S. did have an incredible ending.

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. THAT'S ONE OF THE JUDGMENTS OF: BEASTS OF THE EARTH

🥜🥛🎉🥤🍵🥜🥛🫖🧃

Pretty cool dino

Not

Oh right yeah, I tried to convey this lol but didn’t really go into it

I think that was the point, or at least one of the two ways the filmmakers intended the story to be interpreted.

It's hard for westerners to speak earnestly about because those stories aren't part of our cultural narrative, but I do suspect there's a distinct element in the movie of Japan's violent imperial past coming back to bite them in the ass.

@@Thebdippy What do you mean I'm from the US and I also thought it was about Japanese imperialism coming back to bite them in the ass

@@chrisriverata1917 yeah but we don't have the intimate cultural understanding to fully know how and to what extent that theme is applied

Ooh, that is interesting...

I'm sure this was very much not the intention, but as a trans girl the last two sentences of this comment, and by extension the thesis of it made me very sad. I have a lot of guilt over being born the way I was, and the emotional impact this comment left on me was one of hopelessness. This comment presents human nature as if men are inherently emotionless, and it is only women who are capable of true empathy towards the natural world. This is a generalization sure, but it would not bother me as much if not for the last sentence. "The goggles of the destroyer frame all, while the life-giver is only a sacrifice." This sentence presents two options, prescribes virtue and unjust sacrifice to those who have the ability to bear life, something which I will never be capable of, and therefore it leaves me feeling as if I am doomed to forever be the "destroyer." And after that the last sentence leaves me feeling that because I am incapable of giving life, incapable of virtue and empathy, I am responsible for the acts of all terrible men who preceded my time. Given how you are watching Big Joel I can almost guarantee this was not the impression you intended to leave on people, and the generalizations you made were for the sake of simplifying complex emotions and concepts, but those generalizations still had an unfortunately negative impact on me. This is not your fault, I am not accusing you of being insensitive, rather I felt it would be best for me to share my perspective if only to give others a better understanding of the effect words can have.

@@tentativegazer ​ The op made a good observation about how youth and feminity were selected to represent an abstract idea of the film. I'm a 37 year old childless woman, so not a life giver. Is the OPs comment saying he believes I must be a man? C'mon. Obviously there could be male creators and female destroyers, but to represent the concept in the film they used the gendered trope. You absolutely have to get used to femininity being used (especially 70 year old movies) to represent certain things like connection with the natural world and creation without letting someone who is just pointing it out it make you upset.

@@angelzashez I was not trying to debunk the actual film analysis made in the comment, that was fine. I tried my best to acknowledge that my reply was based on emotional impact rather than logic, clarifying that I understand generalizations and tropes are used to simplify abstract concepts. My reply does not hold up well if you judge it as a critique of the ops comment, and so I tried to indicate as best I could that it was just me sharing my emotional reaction to the comment. As for the reaction I had, it isn't really something I can control. The reason I had the response I did was because the comment echoed of a lot of the anxieties I have about myself. The idea that I am guilty of all the actions of men before me, ("only because men have already gone so far") and the idea that I will be forever tainted, worse, just because of the way I was born. These anxieties are very personal to me and my identity, and respectfully I don't think it's fair of you to say I just need to "toughen up" when these anxieties are about my entire personhood. It's not just a feeling inadequate, it's feeling like I am a fundamentally awful person because of something I can never change. This isn't saying that my pain is more important than anyone else's, rather that my reaction to this comment was very specific to me and I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to express that in a non combative way.

@@tentativegazer​that’s perfectly reasonable imo, even though I like the interpretation. A more inclusive feminist reading could definitely be workshopped. When I first read ‘life-giver’, I read it as ‘giving via the sacrifice’, not literal birth. Anyways, I hope you can become more comfortable in yourself soon. Demonizing men hurts no one (not saying anyone here is doing that) and it’s fine to feel upset that people do that. This is just some thoughts and I don’t have a cohesive thesis, sorry. I don’t want to accuse anyone of anything or undermine the original comment.

He said it under duress and pain of torture from the allies. The Nazis didn't dabble in wordplay. When they said evacuate it's because that was actually their intention.

You are wrong.

@Benjamin Chaulk good job defending nazis. It doesn't matter. He was a nazi, they all were. Torture was too good for him. He deserved worse.

@@freewilly1193 You're a dime a dozen and not nearly as smart as you think.

@@christofferadolfsson8217 i am actually. i looked it back up and what he actually said was that the more explicit parts about murder were omitted from the protocol

Agreed. I was a bit flabbergasted getting to the end of the video and never having seen a Joel production before. Like, is this guy just waxing philosophical with no point? Clearly he isn't explicating so we have to dig, huh Read another comment below and want to combine with this one: So we have Words/intention/spirit (human will as presented in Conspiracy, Godzilla as a multipurpose metaphor by the authors of the film, contradictory ideologies in the Inflammatory Essays, unsure about ITOET only as I haven't watched it carefully yet) vs meaninglessness (the natural unobserved order that exists before and after humans, rote survival at the bottom of the ocean by living off a routine-genocide of weird fishees by a radioactive dinosaur, the desire to seek meaning in it's absence as one realizes the cruel selfish pointlessness of getting everyone to 'agree' to the mass killing of human life by the state apparatus, the inability to distinguish a path when all ideas look the same on paper) vs the actual destruction of subjects (order observed then enacted then justified by those wacky German SS officers, the homicidal survivalism of any unthinking animal subject lacking in morality, the imagined characters trapped in a suicidal mind, Goddy being driven to the human world after an event destroyed local material resources, something from the essays I don't quite see yet). So, combining these two matrices, what are we to destroy that the bomb cannot? Two things that seemed especially relevant are the woman on the train making reference to Godzilla/destruction as sort of a modern inconvenience of living (meaning the characters live in the same trick of society most of us have at one point... That it's commented on by the characters because it's noticeably inconvenient, it's not how they thought the world was or should be) and the scientist's wonder about what we could be learning about radiation from Godzilla. Sorry just wanted to pull as many threads together and stare at it for a bit. I have reached no conclusions nor have I studied the actual visuals of the video to see if they imply part of Joel's point. I believe Joel is mapping out a way for us to begin seeking a way forward, and talking about the gooey self-defeating way we all know too much to take action but feel still that words can make sense of actions that have already happened. And everything just seems to happen all of the time now, so it's very relevant a path to find. Maybe it all relates to the thinking creatures awareness and fear of a meaningless death? Where a sacrifice is a meaningful death, if not particularly fun for the sacrificee. Idk 😐

It's one of my favorite movies too, but I've never heard of this interpretation before, which is a shame bc I like it a lot--going back in time as the person you wish you had been, rather than the one you feel like you've ended up as.

Yeah, I haven't seen the movie myself (I definitely will now though) but from the clips that seems like a pretty compelling reading

From the clips and analysis given in the video, this reading of the film definitely resonates with my own experience of trans identity.

@@moonfestal Its not really apparent or stated (I watched the whole movie like 4 times) but it was something that jumped out to me only when I realised that she was a part of the old man and not a figment of his imagination. Also important to note is that she is everything he wanted to be when he was younger (an artist, poet, biologist and physicist). To conclude, I dont think it was an intentional placement by the author of the book or the creators of the movie, but I read some parts as a trans allegory and that's what matters

Hey I’m trans and this is also one of my favorite movies, genuinely thank you for giving me another lense to look at it through I hadn’t thought of that but I def see it

not that the new videos are bad but I had to check the date and if it wasn't a reupload

What GMK stands for?

@@pimpom5355 GMK is short for *Godzilla, Mothra and King* Ghidorah: All Out Attack which frustratingly removes Baragon from the title

@@diegodankquixote-wry3242 Thank you! I will watch it!

I think there is room for both popcorn Godzilla movies like Godzilla vs Kong 2021 and for serious Godzilla movies like Godzilla 1954, they're all very cool to watch.

Lil joel = short videos bigger joel = long videos See. I go by this rule. That way I never look foolish like you!!!! I feel smart : )

@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 wrong, lil joel: lil videos bigger joel: bigger videos

Yeah, there’ve been so many Lil’ ones since the last Big one, it didn’t even occur to me that this one might be a glorious half-hour long.

Little Joel would never, he's stuck in Shopify Mountain right now, someone tell Big Joel to go pick him up pls

Im stupid I'm dumb. Explicate a bit for us, Mr. Gangster Hintz, please?

if you had to learn how to appreciate something than your appreciation was lacking

goddamn

The book is pretty cool too.

The book is SOOOOO good imo

I've always found his wide, unblinking eyes in the 54, 55 and Shin the most unsettling thing about him actually

"Justified" is definitely a dark word to choose. The idea that killing hundreds of thousands of people could be "justice," a punishment well-executed or something fair and deserved, is obviously outrageous. I think a better word is "reasonable." Is it reasonable to continue to sacrifice the lives of our own people against an aggressor? Is it reasonable to be expected to fight two imperialist eugenicist nations with "traditional war tactics" forever? Americans were being drafted, it wasn't their choice to fight, so they were every bit as much victims as the Japanese people. I think it's a privilege to look back and say how we would have done history differently when men were forced to make terrible decisions while their brothers were dying by the minute.

​@@skeetsmcgrew3282 It was neither reasonable nor justified, to even apply these terms to any act of war is rotten.

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 It was a difficult choice for sure. I suppose we'll never know if here would have been more or less suffering if the bomb wasn't dropped, but what is certain is that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were absolutely tragic. What is important is to remember all the lives lost and to (hopefully) never have a Hiroshima again.

@@anais559 There are a faction of left-wingers who revel in the deaths of Russians during this invasion of Ukraine, and it absolutely disgusts me. All loss of life should be seen as a tragedy, however necessary for some sense of greater good.

Sorry I don't have anything to add but just wanted to say I love your profile pic 💜💖

@@Vooblebooble Haha thank you! I’m not particularly sure i think it’s a “good” one, but it’s fun and i like that, glad to hear someone else likes it too ^^

I was just thinking about sinchronicity then I read your comment, very cool combo

It's about how all destruction is, at least in part, self-destruction. We are an integral part of the world we live in, and we cannot draw a line in the sand and say, "this part is me, this part is not-me". Suffering is always shared.

You can tie meaning to anything if its vague

When someone looks at my art i am looking at them trying to figure out whats going on

I had never heard of this movie until just now, lol. Guess I should watch it.

It is disappointing most other kaiju fans mostly care about epik about battles and explosions when the genre is capable of much more then the average flim critic is willing to give it. Doesn't help the legendary films were mostly slock and didn't try to tell a story either than the reason why the kaiju exist and why they are fighting. That being said, epik battles and explosions are good if you like that sort of thing, and they become even better when you have a good plot which makes the battle more meaningful.