I watched this to the end and felt compelled to sing "You call yourself a princess, but you're a brainiac in a dress. I can't believe you waste time with these books!" This was a good watch and like others have commented, I enjoy how the art style is reminiscent of flash animations from days of old.
i love LOVE not only how eloquently you convey your analyses but how you also touch on elements of the game that are so seldom discussed.. i was wondering for a **long** time as to what purpose the lil tunes could serve. the tune in the epilogue *does* resemble an existing song, albeit a classical one, I’ve noticed you noted this down on the document. kinda unrelated but you mentioning (in the rotation video as well) that the minute details merely serve as foundations in which you construct your interpretation from, was such a breath of fresh air. there’s this sort of culture that permeates media theory circles in which ppl ONLY focus on the tiny details, as well as being concerned with finding the “ONE and only TRUE meaning” of the work. how tf is this paragraph longer than the one that matters wtf
I’m glad you still seem to be alive, but I hope you’re doing well whenever an artist whose work I enjoy goes radio silent for an extended period of time I get nervous
"He applies significant meaning to seemingly insignificant things" I'd say, if he doesnt have OCD then he definitely has BPD(I think that means "boarderline personality disorder"? but it could also be "bi-polar disorder") but I do have to admit. As someone who also has OCD Yeah that makes sense, from my experience at least
Kids who have trauma, or an issue with something in their life they don't know how to deal with, often develop difficulties with concepts related, even in an abstract way, to their trauma or issue. For example, a kid whose parents are divorcing, splitting the family in two, may struggle with learning divisions, that kinda stuff. With that, Paul struggling with rotations, doorknobs and left/right seems to echo Care and her trauma being associated with rotation (Rainer looking at her spin, Lina's death, how Care likes to dance in general). For me, all of that reinforces the idea that Paul is Care, and has difficulties associated with his repressed trauma.
