I made a short video on my second channel where I elaborate a little bit on my thoughts on the future of cinema as an artform and the injustices that percist on the internet: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNCVY7Jo2qe6l2Q.htmlsi=pOnSRIqkcA0WPgDv

“The form of the biopic is ideologically western in its individualist approach which betrays the power of the collective struggle.” Oh my fucking god, one of the best critiques I’ve ever seen about Hollywood biopics and western media.

“Your autistic friend’s favorite avant-garde comedian Nathan Fielder” true true.

Am I white? No Do I live in the west? No, infact I live on the opposite side of the planet compared to the west Do I know what white guilt is? Yes, learned about it 72 sec ago when I searched up what it means. Do I watch a lot of western media? I watch 1 Hollywood and 1 non Hollywood western movie every week. Am I gonna watch this video like I know everything? YES LESSGOOO BABY!!!

One thing if I can fight for Succession (I will always fight for Succession because its too much fun), I don't think we see the effects of their actions on the rest of the world exactly because they live in such a protective bubble and it reinforces the fact that they don't have to face any real-life consequences.

this might be my favorite of your videos yet. i especially appreciate how you acknowledge that even culturally significant, beautifully made pieces of art can be cut from the same cloth of white supremacy. its time that we as a culture choose to move away from seeing racism/white supremacy as an individual, personal evil and start analyzing how they are frameworks that society uses to craft meaning, art, and law. doesnt mean that any art constructed with the help of white supremacy is instantly worthless garbage, it just means that its always worth examining so that things can progress and eventually lose the racist framework. great video.

that nolan movie doesn't go into how the US didn't need to drop the bomb we've found that lower income and rural schools still actually teach there was no alternative (which was just propaganda at the time)

Thanks for the birthday gift. I loved the video. I am a barbie critic. In the theater, when I was watching the barbie movie surrounded by women screaming at half baked birkenstocks jokes, I was suffocated by the fact that after I have to pretend that I liked the movie for the rest of my life I've enjoyed the movie more on subsequent watches with no audience and lower expectations and have been so fortunate that there were fellow barbie critics so I didn't go crazy . It just wasn't made for me. But after I watched Barbie I went to the bar with the girl, I saw it with and her boyfriend was there. We started discussing the film and our mutual disappointment before the conversation got hijacked by him and he ranted for a full half hour about a movie he had never seen. And when I questioned him on that he said you can't live in an echo chamber. (he is a white man and i am a black women, btw) And like he didn't see it, but he still centered himself in the conversation as if he was an expert. A vacant expert. A master of disgust knowing just enough to pretend to have an opinion on everything, but just short of enough to actually care. and my brother and his fiance work in hollywood, and I don't get the movies he likes. And I can usually see his eyes go vacant when I start my own opinions. Like there is a right answer and I will never have it. We were once talking about the Bear (the tv show). And i was talking about the sexual tension of sydney and carmy, which they were telling me wasn't there. That is never the intention. But like it's a show that prides itself on accuracy and I am a black women in chicago working a job like the show. And the intentions are based in a historically racist sexist industry. And so I will always have to care to the surface level readings taught in film schools, just to engage with my people on the films they like. But we can't take two minutes for an alternative perspective. And it's all so suffocating. The white guilt cinema is for them. Everything is for them and I have to wait until they get over themselves, but I'm losing the plot. I don't want to the watch movies or engage because why? I am not enjoying them, even the masterpieces. It's like homework. What's worst is that nothing is changing. It's just me. I'm growing up incompatible and it's about the movies, but also everything. Anyways sorry for the rant. I love these videos. One of the few things I actually get excited for. Make whatever you want I'll watch.

the whole video is great but after the lily gladstone snub mention i need to go out for beers with you man. you're a real one.

I would really appreciate if you (or whoever captions this) please captioned the clips you add to the videos and not just your words - I know it would be extra work, but the audios can be old and hard to understand- plus it makes the videos more accessible for people who are ELL or deaf

I like everyone else in the comments am enjoying this tremendously but I question why you don't commit to the snippets of text you flash so that they are actually legible. It's comes across like a visual form of a hesitation, which is cool on its own but many of the ones I was able to pause for were definitely worth reading. maybe when youre editing you're looking at it in groups of frames so it seems long enough but i can tell you it ain't let it linger. great video!!

"I was raised in the 1950s" I'm sorry but you sound like you're fourteen years old

i love your unique perspective too, to my knowledge you're the only Jamaican youtuber I've listened to. you explain things that seemingly can't be articulated very well. like the metaphor for being in the background of someone's photograph. rly good video thank you

This is the first video I discovered on my feed and I’ve automatically subscribed! What I would say that I loved about Oppenheimer was it’s final hour where he is really shown to get screwed by his government, meeting Truman just scoffing off at his guilt. It presented Oppy as just another cog in the machine of the entire system of the US hegemony, specifically the military industrial complex. While it made Oppy the focused perspective it still gave enough context on other characters he interacts with.

after watching this wonderful video i went to your youtube page to subscribe and,,, the fact that you've made 7 long-form video essays in less than a year and you're at this level of proficiency at communicating is just incredible!! i'm looking forward to seeing more of your stuff in the future!

Wow I love the editing and sound on this video. It made me completely engaged to the stuff being said

Friend, you're editting is understated and hella funny to me. Really enjoyed your analysis of film and self-reflection. Keep at it! You're a rockstar. :)

I found this video genuinely engaging and enjoyed the perspectives you posed

I always love your videos so much you’re my favorite youtuber! Oh also my mom worked on the curse!

As a woman, specifically a trans woman, Barbie was cathartic and not much else. People point to the monologue or the talk between Barbie and her creator being the most important biggest parts of the movie. But for me easily the best biggest and most important scene of the movie was when Barbie comes into the real world and talks to the old woman on the bench. “You’re so beautiful” “I know it” And she just smiles. It filled me with a very intense affirmation that I rarely feel especially when something is trying so hard to be that way.

This has to be the best of all ur video essays yet

I am too stupid to contribute to any conversation taking place here about this video, but I CAN say that I share your one-second sentiment about the Dark Knight trilogy, and the appeal of making fantastical characters more "gritty and realistic" continues to miss me.

An incredibly nuanced and self-aware film-based video essay? At this time of year, at this time of day, broadcasted entirely to my laptop!?

you have some damn good transitions DO NOT STOP THE CREATIVE TRANSITIONS!!! I SUBBED

also love ur editing and music choices! its also really distinc from other youtubers haha kinda like a trademark

Love the editing as well as the content

This vid itself was incredibly entertaining. Thank you for your work!

Going brought it home with that ending… I was hesitant to watch this at first but I’m glad I did

This is an absolutely incredible video, I was completely transfixed by it from start to finish. Truly insightful and your willingness to open up about your personal connection and even failure to connect with some of these things made it so much more than the sum of its parts. Completely hooked from the first 5 minutes, thank you for working so hard to put your thoughts together so effectively

i’m glad i found this gem of a vid :) just came back from pausing to finish the curse😭

This is so close to being a great video. Your points/analysis were amazing, but it was hard to hear some of the words, because of loud background music or speaking too quietly. Few strange edits here and there as well, with sentences being chopped up. I also feel it rushes just a little too much. That is a style I've seen with other video essays, and maybe it's a personal thing that I'm less crazy about, but it is hard to digest everything being said. What I could digest was great, though.

you're a very talented podcaster mate keep it up

Impeccable background music choice btw

absolutely one of my fav video essayists! love ur content so much man! im brown and my fav show is succession lol and i totally echo all of your sentiments its really validating to hear someone elaborate on why these certain media need to be examined under a bigger lense, bc they dont exist in a vaccuum. anyways, love ur videos looking forward for more!

beautiful video, started this the day before israel invaded raffah, now the part about hollywood patting itself on the back about depicting a person repsonsible for a massacre whilst a real massacare is happening,,, gave me chills. instantly subscribed, free Palestine.

I knew within the first 5 min of this video that I had stumbled upon a special channel and that this video would be smart, thought provoking and well done. just subbed!

This essay is blowing my mind like The Matrix, which had a Black man blowing a white man mind

i love these long detailed somewhat rambled videos. very educational and a good medium for learning sociology

Thank you so much for making this video and speaking on the invisible things that are right in front of our faces. I'm a black, queer, comic artist, and I have been very seriously considering what stories I want to tell, who I am telling them to, and why. My love of film and other forms of narrative art has certainly informed my storytelling tendencies, and this video is forcing me to identify how much of this stuff I have internalized and accepted as a necessary part of storytelling. I say all of this to say, thank you so much. As a creative, and as a person, I needed to hear this.

Absolute masterpiece of a video. I will now watch anything you make even if its 4 hours long.

the detail about how the Bob Marley film was a non jamaican production reminds me of how i had to argue for an assignment that colonialism in india was a good thing actually. basically its their rules in the end... but you still got a Bob Marley movie (railroad system)

I love early movies, they remind me of early KZfaq, the beginning of House and Hip Hip, or TikTok. Something about a medium making stories before setting down rules captivates me. Thanks for platforming Native Media Theory and Alachia Queen.

This video is brilliant, I appreciate you a lot

Instant sub for putting King Krule and the Gunbuster OST in your video essay 💯

Your thing on the Bob Marley movie is the exact same thing that happened to my hometown when Bomb City, a film about a contrivercial murder/hatecrime from my goddammed hometown was released. The atmosphere in that town when that movie released was tense because that case stull brings up a lot today. And yeah, its cool that it was made and spreads the story, but its limited by its medium. I believe, in time, it has found, and is finding people who appreciate it. But its weird when you're from the same town that the story takes place in. Its a magical feeling and rejuvinated my love in film.

i have not seen most of the movies you've gotten your clips from so i have no idea what they mean when you put them in. could you please consider subtitles for those parts so people who are deaf can follow along as well? i would appreciate having context for the cutaways and i think knowing what they are saying would help

holy shit this was enlightening. good work man

33:19 I thought I was the only one😭 I remember the first time my brother and I watched TDK together, he fell asleep at the couch half way through the movie while I was fighting so hard not to change the channel.

Great video! Only thing I wonder if it is possible to go even a layer deeper. Can a white director even tell a story where the perspective isn't white? Even with a non-white person co-writing it? Is there not an inherent risk with co-writing that the ideas and perspective of the non-white person becomes overridden by the white person as the white perspective is more entrenched and supported by the system? Would that be a risk worthy to take to have non-white stories told (at least partially) by a white director? Furthermore, why is a film more guilty of being white supremacist inside the context of the current popular film industry, rather than outside its context? And if a director' authentic artistic intention just so happens to align with what is popular and white, should a director be encouraged to move away from that intention for the sake of a humanitarian struggle that they have no possible perspective on? Anyways if you read this please check my music lol. Great video again!

As a 16 year old girl who has an obsessive need to consume video essays, this helped me recognize my own flaws and resonated to every word you said.

Im so excited for this video already

I wonder if you had delayed this video by another few weeks how you would have incorporated Dune Part 2 into this tapestry of a video essay. Because that film is also very much centred on a white perspective while deconstructing (or attempting to deconstruct) the myth of the white saviour. Even if the protagonist is deconstructed, Villeneuve, being a white director, inadvertently frames the issue in a lens of white guilt.

You aint slick putting hamburgerphobia in there for like 3 seconds.

Please never stop making vids

Your videos are great.

At 26:04 you say "I don't talk about media I don't like even when I'm critiquing them" (according to the captions) and I am just. Not grasping what you mean with that, maybe I'm having a brain fart but could someone explain what that means? I feel like you have to talk about something when critiquing it, I also don't get how it ties into the "it isn’t bad to like harmful art" follow up, I'm just very confused about the sentence structuring.

Amazing video

Criminally underviewed work! Another excellent video

this video also serves as a self reflection on how the creator has fallen deep into whatever the opposite of being based is.

I dig your vibe sir. So I am gonna give you money(joined the patreon..as long as I can afford it anyway)

Your video makes me think of the band Rage Against the Machine. People wonder why White Supremacists/people who practice White Supremacy love Rage, even though the band is so explicitly political… and I think after watching your video I finally have an answer.

Awesome video. Review Beau is Afraid someday maybe?

excellent midroll placement

obligatory history lesson?? let goooooo!

Since November, I've been working with a former BBC producer (of almost 3 decades). He had to come to America to make that story. 😉. Which makes you wonder how much the truth was doctored, or if it's mostly straight up things he witnessed... In other news. Any modern show that has 6-10 Panavision cameras rolling at once, while Kodak 35mm film flies through the camera, should stay on the air a long time. The more customers Kodak has, the more, my Zuni/Mexican-American pov/voiced stories can be shot on film. Cause you and I both know, a fridge of film, per film, is not keeping them in business. And even though my friend Eric has been on it a bunch of times. I've still never seen any of it. I just like that they shoot on film, and that they don't have a budget on the amount of film. Eric has spoken with the camera dept extensively, as he is an older cat, and he's not just an actor, but a filmmaker, with a lot of experience with 8-35mm. They roll cameras even on rehearsals, even when no one is aware. The cameras roll unless the mag runs out. They treat them like digital cameras. The only things I know about that show, is what Eric tells me, I didn't even know who all was on it, before watching your video about it. And yeah, Peep Show is one of the greatest shows ever created, anywhere in the world.

What’s that song when he says ‘Macbeth’ 6:06

Bro.... The psalty meme has me shook hard.

2:02 please. Name of the piece right here. Lovely video btw

The amount of hate this video is getting is not an accident. Thanks for speaking on this; the majority of yt americans would rather die than accept this truth

thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Bro has great music selection

this shits fire 🔥

What is the song at 56:30

I've always seen Encanto as the gold standard for movies that actively oppose white supremacy. It tells an extremely relevant story about generational trauma through the lens of Columbian culture. And it does so without exploiting the message or the culture for its agenda.

I wish i could like this MORE TIMES Thank you for this wondefful video: - philosophical -educational -moving -creative -beautifully edited Thank you!!!!!

How many times are you going to change the title?

Killers of the flower moon is so much better than Oppenheimer

56:44 I DIED!!! LOL

please equalize your sounds next time. i have to manage my volume a lot watching through the video. great work nonetheless!

1:33:23 Skibidi toilet is fine Everything that comes from it and surrounds it is not

Your general thesis about white guilt cinema and hollywood trying to rake it in by consistently apologizing for it's sins is an interesting one. Funnily enough, I caught onto it not by watching this video, but because the same point has been made in various anti-woke videos.

Did you just say you were raised in the 1950s???? How old are you????? Love your videos btw:)

Wonderful video and interesting opinions. I agree with some arguments about 'white shame' cinema, although my feelings are that cinema has always had a white-male gaze, because all of the directors and producers are white. They are getting older, and lockdowns have made them reflect about their identity (culturally, affluently) ... I believe it to be a phase in Hollywood, and that the films produced can be studied in the future, in relation to socio-economic and cultural identity. But still, it's disappointing to see how blind Hollywood can be, even when they preach racial ideals, and then make a monstrosity like Green Book (2018) win best picture. A film about racism in the deep south, told through a white guy's perspective. I think the phrase I utter the most is "Ahhh Hollywood... You just don't get it" Btw, I love the Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets references (and music). Ken SAMAAAAA

31:31 a capital f Fascist would specifically be Italian.

The ending of The Curse reminds me so much of a horrible conversation I had with my mom. I am trans and visibly so. We live in a rural, very conservative area. Some teenagers were laughing at me in the line of some store and my mom decided to yell at them. I pulled her away and outside the store. In the car, she was so angry at those kids and I was just exhausted. I told her that she should never do anything like that again and she was confused. I explained simply: lashing out at bigots can be dangerous. What my mom, a cis woman, just did, was put me in danger. She didn't understand. I explained further: if the cops get called because of a fight, they won't be arresting or brutalizing some nice white looking middle aged woman. It is likely that the very trans looking young person is the one who will face the brunt of the abuse and possibly be taken to jail where trans people are often assaulted. My mom had never even considered this. She was even angry at me, she said I was invalidating her feelings. In that moment, my mother made her feelings the center of the situation when my safety was at stake. In that moment, I realized that my mom, though she loves me, will never truly understand my perspective and her first inclination was to center her own perspective. It was truly horrible. We made up later that day, but I have never forgotten it. It really opened my eyes to something I haven't noticed before. I'm used to random people doing this stuff, but my own mother? It was shocking.

Babe not that it’s revelant but how do you know about father ted???

haha, woman here. I didn't like the Barbie movie :D turned it off in the middle. it was soooo boring to me

I love your vids. that said, are you okay?

wait, welles was 25 when he made citizen kane? 🗿

jesus theres a lot of people misinterpreting your video in the comments, as a non-white person who aspires to make movies one day, keep up the good work! really enjoyed this!

Just subscribed.

If you were to have a film from the Japanese POV during WWII, itd be like having that from German POV. Both were racist fascist governments. With that being said, there's already a solution to what you're discussing. Foreign cinema. More popular than ever. Watch it

I’m subscribing just because king Krule

This didnt have another title?

Good vid

All the flowers 🌹🌺🌹

fellas, is it racist to make dramatic interpretations about white people in power? Or perhaps, it's more racist to assume non-white races never had these exact same power struggles, with the exact same ego problems and guilty conscience? Macbeth's race doesn't matter, it's more about the universality of human power struggles; it's why everyone can relate to the play.

54 47 so youve never seen scream?

Dude marty literally listened to Osage story and even he said that he wishes more native directors were more recognized and also a lot of native tribes love killers of the flower moon even to have a showing event when it came out How about your ass go finally just for once go and LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLES STORIES

Yes YES YES