Cloud Atlas pt. 1 - Brows Held High

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@JosephWiess 6 лет назад

Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do study history are doomed to watch those who didn't study history, repeat it.

@chrisrosenkreuz23 2 года назад

Cassandra on smack

@UncleMort 3 месяца назад

Those who really study history find that most of it is written to serve a narrative, not the truth.

@scrambled5948 5 лет назад

Hugh Grant has played an 18th century nobleman, loads of rom com sweethearts and a cannibal, but his best role is a criminally insane actor who is basically Hugh Grant who is also hellbent on getting a pop-up book that has secrets to a treasure hidden in a travelling carnival and the only thing getting in his way is a talking CGI bear wearing a red hat and a blue coat and it happens to be the most heartwarming movie of all time. This guy has had a weird career.

@muserweaver 7 лет назад

"I don't know what genre I'm going to do so I'm going to do ALL" -Dan Simmons, somewhere in 1980s

@ineedhoez 4 года назад

😂😂😂😂

@MDBowron 2 года назад

or Italo Calvino in If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, which used multiple genres as well. There are also a number of books that use multiple time periods and genres in them these days.

@Redem10 8 лет назад

I agree with most with most points of the review, but I unironically love Cloud Altlas.

@Foxpawed 8 лет назад

+Redem10 He put the movie on his top 10 of the year when it came out; He likes the film too. Its just the common matter of the book being better.

@DaRunningMan 8 лет назад

+Wesley Foxx The movie is shit. He gave the a movie a proper trashing for its disgusting use of yellowface and I was very happy to see that he did so.

@heleneprideaux9764 7 лет назад

I really wanted to see it for the Robert Frobisher story, and I was not disappointed. Overall I did really enjoy the movie (And identifying which actors played which characters under the heavy makeup and prosthetics).

@MDBowron 5 лет назад

@@heleneprideaux9764 if you enjoy epic films that cover different time periods, asides from Intolerance (which he mentions in part 2) from 1916 covering 2500 years from 500s BC to 1900s AD, another film that suggests a reincarnated soul having a journey across multiple lifetimes is Being Human (1993) where Robin Williams covers roughly 6000 years according to the script, from Pre-Historic England where he is a hunter/gatherer, to a Roman slave, to a Medieval Scottish crusader, to a Portugese Colonialist master to a late 20th century US father and businessman. Another film with multiple roles played by the same actor across different time periods is Hungarian director Istvan Szabo's 1999 film Sunshine (not the 2007 Danny Boyle film), set from the 1860s to the 1960s in Hungary through different time periods as grandfather Istvan from the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Feudalism or Pre-Modernism maybe?), father Adam from The Kingdom of Hungary during Nazi Germany rise of fascism (Capitalism or Modernism), and son Ivan from The People's Republic of Hungary during the time of the Cold War (Socialism or Post-Modernism). There's also the film The Fountain (2006) by Darren Aronofsky, again set in three time periods where actors due multiple reincarnations, as Hugh Jackman plays Spanish Conquistador Tomas in the 1500s trying to find a Mayan city (western christianity religion, premodernism), to AMerican Dr Tommy Creo a neuroscientist trying to cure cancer of his wife during the early 2000s who is writing a book about Spain and is interested in mayan culture (mayan or mesoamerican religion, modernism), to Tom an astronaut in the 2500s living in a biospheric space vessel travelling to a nebula to create life to a tree that provides immortality before it dies (eastern religion, postmodernism). The Fountain has similar metaphors and cross-cutting between time periods like Cloud Atlas. Being Human goes in chronological order, as does Sunshine. Another film which is an anime, Satoshi Kon's 2002s "Millennium Actress" which covers a day of an interview of an elderly film actress Chiyoko Fujiwara by an avid fan which recalls her life story and film history, the film settings covers roughly a thousand years of Japanese history from Medieval Heian, to Samurai, to Edo Geisha, to Meiji era 19th century drama, to World War II era film-making, to during the 1960s space-race dramas, to Kaiju science fiction, to outer space set science fiction. If you're a fan of epic period spanning films Kyle, I'm sure you'll enjoy these ones as well. By the way, thanks for taking the time and energy to make these reviews and analyses of various films, you're a great critic. Also the fact that these different periods of modernisms are put alongside one another and are seen as constructs is a symbol of what is called 'meta-modernism' which like integral theory sees the difference in the evolution of worldviews through time and how each view has its pros and cons.

@koboldcatgirl 5 лет назад

The Washowskis did a great job of making it incredibly watchable.

@FredtheDorfDorfman1985 Год назад

It’s such a shame so many people said it was confusing and hard to follow. I don’t understand what’s so hard to follow about it, but not everyone is as quick with understanding movies. Cloud Atlas was a masterpiece for those fascinated with reincarnation and the intertwining of lives and souls. Following a soul’s progression through different lives, and the effect each has on the next, is deep. That’s like Chris Nolan’s Inception, and Tenet, people can’t follow the non-linear story telling, so they call them boring flops instead of being able to appreciate their genius. Inception really affected me, just like Cloud Atlas. Tenet was just stunningly beautiful. I guess being a hard core sci-fi and Trekkie junkie has helped me, but I just love a complex story with ideas like reincarnation, destiny, self fulfilling prophecy, time travel, paradoxes, dreams, premonitions, etc. I wish more people were quicker with understanding and following complex stories so they could enjoy and appreciate them.

@annarchie9949 5 лет назад

Here's a proper English translation of the Nitzsche-quote, done by myself: If one day or night a demon sneaked after you into you loneliest loneliness and whispered to you: "This life, as you are living it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and countless times more; and there will be nothing new to it, but every pain and every pleasure, and every thought and every moan and all the unbearably small and large of your life will have to come back to you, and all in the same order and sequence - and also this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and also this very moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existance is turned over and over again, and you with it, dust of the dust!" - Would you not throw yourself down and gring your teeth and curse that demon? Or did you once experience an incredible moment in which you would answer: "you are a god, and never did I hear anything more divine!" If this thought got hold of you, you, as you are, would be transformed and maybe crushed by it; the question with anything and everything "do you want this once more and countless times more" woud lie like the heavyest of weights on your actions! Or how would you have to become good to yourself and your life to demand nothing more than that last eternal affirmation and validation. In Nietzsche's time cosmology proposed a finite and eternal universe, and he - correctly - pointed out that that would mean a huge but finite number of possibillities, which would therefore have to repeat themselves, sooner or later, and not just once but infinitely oftenly. Although that cosmology was disproven, the problem is still acute. Our current one, a multiverse of infinite parallel universes, would mean infinte possibillities, but each particular one of those would have to exist somewhere, and again not just once but infinitely oftenly. So, Nietzsche asked how an individual could live their day-to-day life with that type of knowledge. And his answer was what you could call the central theme of his philosophy: There is no objective, pre-provided meaning to life, people have to give themselves one if they want one. And the way to do that is to do things who are so worthy to you in themselves that it doesn't make a difference whether they lead to anything or not.

@bel5904 7 лет назад

I thought it was brilliant.

@TheRobinRedbreast 7 лет назад

This is absolutely THE best video discussion of Cloud Atlas I have ever seen. I have been searching and searching and searching for something like this only to be disappointed in video after video. Thank you for uploading your storyline explanation.

@mizikoniss 8 лет назад

I still Adore Cloud Atlas. It's the best movie ever for me... It's changed my life.. so happy to find this vid

@DaRunningMan 8 лет назад

+Zikoniss Books The movie is racist shit and I was very happy to see when Kyle gave it a proper trashing.

@annacriscuolo9236 8 лет назад

I really really love it, too.

@DaRunningMan 8 лет назад

Anna Criscuolo You love white supremacist practices like yellowface?

@lizett3465 7 лет назад

I really hope you are trolling, because this film has one of the most complex and brilliant anti-racist (among other things) messages.

@Glassandcandy 3 года назад

@@DaRunningMan can’t tell if you’re being sincere or just trolling lmao.

@nallelychow 5 лет назад

The birthmark doesn't mean it's the same soul... it's a cloud of souls and the one with the birthmark is the one passing or receiving they key to continue developing the message or their mission as sister souls, reincarnating together across time. Same souls are represented by same actresses/actors.

@gbrown932 6 лет назад

The problem with it being one soul is that the 1974 reporter and the British author are alive on the planet at the same time.

@FunnyAnimatoFilms 3 года назад

Have you ever met someone at a social event who reminded you of yourself at a different phase in your life? Same attitudes and ticks and a similar outlook? Maybe even the same vocal pattern? Maybe they are you.

@theghostofspookwagen4715 3 года назад

I read a theory (tvtropes maybe) saying that if killing someone else doomed your soul to non-reincarnation (as the last arc chronologically implies) then killing yourself may have created that weird middle ground where the soul "splits". God alone knows.

@thomassgdf8270 8 лет назад

Nietzsche sounds indeed much less bombastic in the original Klingon. Back-translating the version read by you would require serious 18th German, methinks.

@tatehildyard5332 7 лет назад

Thomas Hanke Everything is simpler/sexier in Klingon.

@MDBowron 3 года назад

Nietzsche is from the 19th century

@avalonjaynes1106 8 лет назад

Nietzsche... less pretetnious in German?... Hell no. Although Nietzsche always hated the highbrow sounding style of - and this is Nietzsche's opinion - ALL OTHER PHILOSOPHERS EVER, he was quite self infatuated and in some regards quite elitist, ergo he loved himself so much in his great intelligence and sophisitction, that he always sounded bombastic and pretetious as sheeeaaaat.

@MarsFKA 5 лет назад

I thought Douglas Adams did a pretty good job on philosophers in "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy".

@gozerthegozarian9500 3 года назад

@@seanwieland9763 Socrates himself was permanently pissed

@sophovot5079 7 лет назад

the birthmark is obviously on different body parts on all of them, why'd he say it's always on the shoulder?

@juditveres_hearts 6 лет назад

@Sophovot Because in the book it is always there. It was not so obvious or understandable as he said it for me too.

@NBNightingale 4 года назад

@@juditveres_hearts Nah. In the book, Cavendish has it on his butt.

@dysmissme7343 6 лет назад

This is such a beautiful video, I never imagined Cloud Atlas (the movie) could have developed from something so deeply and philosophically thought out. Thank you! 😊

@MorganArizona 5 лет назад

This is the most beautiful and profound video essay I’ve ever watched-and I’d clicked just for some jokes at the movie’s expense. Awesome job :D

@bain13100 6 лет назад

I found the movie to be uplifting and inspiring, while the book felt fatalistic and depressing. This is an example where, in my opinion, the movie is better for its note of hope.

@dialecticsjunkie7653 7 лет назад

Gah, why did you have to cut short your musical explanation? That would have been very interesting for me!

@FurEngel 7 лет назад

Points for mentioning matryoshka doll.

@StudioErsatz 8 лет назад

Groundhog Day is more Nietzsche than Cloud Atlas tbh

@RARA64HUNNID 5 лет назад

Sliding Doors

@almoskosz7461 7 лет назад

This is the best video discussing cloud atlas on RU-vid!

@leahdagr8 6 лет назад

This was the clearest explanation of cloud atlas and its connection to the theory I’ve come across. Good job.

@tobi2731 7 лет назад

"Yeez, I hope this is less pretentious on German" - my thoughts excactly. But German is my mother tongue so I checked it... and who would have guessed: It's good, very well written. Nietzsche was a poet afterall and not even a poor one. The translation you got is just really odd. Here is the full german quote: "Wie, wenn dir eines Tages oder Nachts ein Dämon in deine einsamste Einsamkeit nachschliche und dir sagte: »Dieses Leben, wie du es jetzt lebst und gelebt hast, wirst du noch einmal und noch unzählige Male leben müssen; und es wird nichts Neues daran sein, sondern jeder Schmerz und jede Lust und jeder Gedanke und Seufzer und alles unsäglich Kleine und Große deines Lebens muß dir wiederkommen, und alles in derselben Reihe und Folge - und ebenso diese Spinne und dieses Mondlicht zwischen den Bäumen, und ebenso die ser Augenblick und ich selber. Die ewige Sanduhr des Daseins wird immer wieder umgedreht - und du mit ihr, Stäubchen vom Staube!« - Würdest du dich nicht niederwerfen und mit den Zähnen knirschen und den Dämon verfluchen, der so redete? Oder hast du einmal einen ungeheuren Augenblick erlebt, wo du ihm antworten würdest: »du bist ein Gott und nie hörte ich Göttlicheres!« Wenn jener Gedanke über dich Gewalt bekäme, er würde dich, wie du bist, verwandeln und vielleicht zermalmen; die Frage bei allem und jedem: »willst du dies noch einmal und noch unzählige Male?« würde als das größte Schwergewicht auf deinem Handeln liegen! Oder wie müßtest du dir selber und dem Leben gut werden, um nach nichts mehr zu verlangen als nach dieser letzten ewigen Bestätigung und Besiegelung?"

@juliamavroidi8601 7 лет назад

tobi2731 Still pretty pretentious tbf 😉

@juditveres_hearts 6 лет назад

Danke, Tobi!

@bradyedge8613 7 лет назад

Just finished this book, about to watch the movie. First time watching any of your videos. This is terrific and hilarious! 10:28 almost spit out my drank.

@keithhall2943 6 лет назад

Excellent job of explaining the movie. Yesterday, I watched Cloud Atlas for the first time. I needed some clarity on a few things. Bravo Zulu!

@sataprescott7588 5 лет назад

I see what you did there. A clever attempt to mirror a fiction's conceit in essay format. I'm impressed.

@danpt2000 7 лет назад

Not even finished the video, but I thumbs it up. Explains so much.... Thank you.

@MarmaladeMaki 8 лет назад

I never realised how much kermode sounds like kermode even written down.

@SevakKirakosyan 6 лет назад

Excellent piece of work! Thanks a lot. I got tons of stuff after this review.

@alisterfolson 6 лет назад

You opened my eyes to even more easter eggs, after all this time...thanks

@richdarksauce 3 месяца назад

Great video. Very good. Just seen the movie for the 1st time and looking for an interesting video commenting on it and revealing subtle layers about it and finally this one definitely does it. Thanks. Amazing insights.

@VivaCohen 4 года назад

I love Cloud Atlas. One of my favorite movies ever! I really appreciated how unique the book was with the nesting structure too, but I wasn't a huge fan of it.

@karidennis6154 Год назад

Did you actually watch the movie? I was on the fence about that until you mentioned the birthmark which always shows up in the same place, the shoulder. That might be true in the book but in the movie they all have it in a different spot. Rey’s is on her left shoulder, Frobisher’s is on his lower back, Sonmi-451 has hers on her neck, cavendish’s is on the back of his calf, and Ewing has his on his chest. I think that’s all of the characters with the birthmark, i could be missing someone though.

@KyleKallgrenBHH Год назад

In the book, it’s always on the shoulder.

@tonischlotter1614 8 лет назад

I always enjoy your episodes, ever since you were on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com, I even love rewatching these episodes. I know your trying to keep up with your consistent quality in your shows, and I just have one question... How hard is it to find indie films "good" enough to delve into their meanings?

@johnperfetti2142 7 лет назад

It means we're doomed to watch this movie get made again.

@igormaka 5 лет назад

Can you do a viedo on why the Hyperion Cantos is unadaptable?

@sinisternightmare 8 лет назад

Well, it is not QUITE clear, what Nietzsche actually means by the eternal reoccurrence, because he's not only pretentious, but also pretty "wibbly-wobbly" to read. In my opinion the best interpretation is the ethical one: Act in a way, that you could live with yourself doing it over and over and over and over again! - However, there are a couple of other interpretations. There are even people, who believe, that Nietzsche LITERALLY meant, that everything is gonna repeat forever.

@dansmart3182 7 лет назад

I agree with this. I think N meant eternal reoccurrence as a test of self creation and creating ones own moral values. I could never get my head around the other interpretations.

@briez9648 Год назад

I love Cloud Atlas. When I watched it for the first time I finished it and said "what? I gotta watch it again." I immediately watched it a 2nd time and when I finished it I said "that was the best movie I've ever seen.

@odinofanime 8 лет назад

Ya know, its honestly sad seeing people with such talent as you getting so little attention. I wish people like you and Brandon Tenold (Not sure if you've heard of him, but he's great) Really deserve more credit On a side note, what happened to the Ghost Dog review? Was it taken down for some reason? I ask because it was the first review of yours I've ever seen, and I quite liked it.

@Natalia964 5 лет назад

Está la segunda parte con subtítulos en español?

@guitaoist 5 месяцев назад

5:45 “birthmark always on the shoulder” Proceeds to show it on the hip, head, ankle and other non-shoulder body parts

@danpt2000 7 лет назад

The explanation of the 6 stories intertwined, ABCDEF , then FEDCBA. I wonder how many times of you have to watch it, to see that. How many pairs of eyes looking thru Cloud Atlas, were you able to even see that?

@MDBowron 2 года назад

that explanation is of the stories as they are presented in the novel, not the film adaptation which is more channel-surfing style

@whitechair3846 Год назад

as manny times I'ved watched this movie I never thought of the comet as being one soul....mind blown!

@jonoave 5 месяцев назад

Another more popular theory I've seen is that the birthmark represents the "main character" of the current arc, not necessarily the same soul.

@ThePonderer 8 лет назад

One of my favorites of yours.

@guitaoist 5 месяцев назад

The eternal recurrence isnt literal like some Lion King “circle of life” new age stuff, its a thought experiment: “if you had one chance to live life and had to repeat that SAME LIFE over and over again, what would you do to make it worthwhile.”

@jeramybearamy8539 6 лет назад

Thanks for this!

@kathrintsc 4 года назад

movie was ace! can't stop whatching it again

@amalija11 7 лет назад

I'm so excited to watch this..

@remembertotakeshowerspleas355 7 лет назад

Is it me or is the quality of this video super low?

@BrorealeK 7 лет назад

It's from 2013

@vajrafire 3 года назад

Awesome review! Hands down Cloud Atlas is my favorite book of all time. It’s one of those stories worth reading again and again. The movie is pretty good too ☁️🌈☁️

@nikitazorin2353 7 лет назад

It's all is just a faaar better version of mr. Nobody.

@writerspen010 7 лет назад

Well now I'm more than convinced that I need to read this book :D

@perennialbeachcomber.7518 6 лет назад

*Cloud Atlas pt. 2 - "Brows Held High"* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WWE5oc8PCZM.html

@gregorsamsa9264 7 лет назад

If On a Winter's Night a Traveler is one of my personal favorites.

@ChristianNeihart 8 лет назад

Dammit! Why wasn't I informed that you did an episode on Cloud Atlas!

@eccothepixy8107 2 года назад

If see your whole life before you die in a flash, but at the end of that flash is the moment your life flashes, in that flash of a flash you live your life once more, and again.

@Glassandcandy 3 года назад

12:48 Small detail but I like that you used an actual Roman painting of what you’re talking about AND used actual historically accurate Roman music. (I even know what album you pulled that from, it’s great lol).

@hardnewstakenharder 5 лет назад

I loved it, an all time great.

@ChrisGlenski 8 лет назад

Eternal recurrence is often understood to be a simple thought experiment where one is asked to question their comfort with their actions. Namely, would you feel good if you know what you did today was what you did forever? Or if you committed some questionable or morally dubious act why did you do that? If there is something about what you did that makes you feel uncomfortable but at the same time you know that you ought to have done it, then one should embrace their discomfort and put their mind at ease. This strain of thought was examined in larger detail by the existential French philosophers Sarte and Camus.

@clancydr7211 7 лет назад

"Zachry tells this story around a campfire to a narragansett [turkey] who tells the story to a mallard [duck] who tells the story to a Rhode Island Red [chicken]. It's a [...] turducken." I see what you did there.

@mizikoniss 8 лет назад

Let's take a moment to thank God for CLOUD ATLAS.

@DaRunningMan 8 лет назад

+Zikoniss Books The book maybe. Fuck the movie.

@mizikoniss 8 лет назад

DaRunningMan this movie changed my LIFE i'm pretty sure I love it a lot

@DaRunningMan 8 лет назад

Zikoniss Books The movie is a racist piece of shit.

@mizikoniss 8 лет назад

DaRunningMan No.. why you say that ? the movie is fantastic.. i'm from Africa, it's not racist. The movie promote for freedom & non-violence & the chaos theory.

@DaRunningMan 8 лет назад

Zikoniss Books Yes, it is racist with its disgusting use of yellowface. You being from Africa does not mean you are the judge of what's racist and not.

@YeoldRagnaris 8 лет назад

"Thats a fucked up mess aint it" spoke Zaratustra

@FrancoisDressler 6 лет назад

Kermode has actually warmed to the film over the years.

@Lia-uf1ir 11 месяцев назад

10:24 That's what happens when you try to translate from a language that distinguishes both a singular and plural you and a formal and informal you (something that English actually used to have, thou being one example).

@danielpseery6861 Год назад

At least you spent time thinking about it. Some people didn't even bother.

@djedit1107 7 лет назад

great analysis!

@chrisrosenkreuz23 2 года назад

You beautifully underlined the concept which you then said you sucked at. Nietzsche's point (I think) was that suffering was an artefact of the will to power, and that without someone to draw the short straw there can't ever be hope of achieving greatness (for the inflicting actor). Hence, one must endure their fate, even strive to love it if one might hope to polish the turd that is one-self.

@amalia7513 6 лет назад

Yeah, it wasn't perfect, but I really liked CA anyways.

@kaylaowens8168 5 лет назад

Just discovered you. Kinda adore you now

@Cymb3lin3 3 года назад

as a musicology student, I was FURIOUS to learn that the Sextet wasn't what the book promised. And to essentially give Frobisher a line that is indicative of VARESE'S conception of music as organised sound but make him write bad Debussy almost gave me an aneurysm also, take it from a native speaker of German: Nietzsche is EVEN MORE pretentious in German.

@renel8964 6 лет назад

2:10 is that real or did you make that up?

@HerrDeutschBlood 7 лет назад

What a coincidence. My name happens to be Mark.

@studlord9970 11 месяцев назад

One thing I haven't understood about the book is this. Cavendish was old enough in his story to have been alive during the events of Luisa Rey's story. How could they be reincarnations of each other if they were alive at the same time?

@djoneforever 2 месяца назад

It's very simple. Make 6 movies in different genre with the same actors then chop them up and place them randomly and use something to link them all together and call it reincarnation.

@guitaoist 5 месяцев назад

13:20 i hate when people say “theres nothing new under the sun and nothing original anymore”. Yes the matrix is “based off of the IDEA of Platos cave allegory,” but its an incredibly original STORY. Yes fight club is about oppression of society, but its again an incredibly original STORY.

@annarchie9949 5 лет назад

About 10:23: Yes. I had actually no idea how badly the English translation of "Zarathustra" sucks. Nietzsche wrote poetically, but in the language of his time, which is not so different from modern day German (except for a bit of the spelling.) . This guy wildly mixes up Medievel, Elisabethan and 19th. century language, and basically everything that seems kind of old. He sounds like a third-rate fantasy writer trying to write a mystical ancient prophecy.

@malcolmdonaldson1985 5 лет назад

Literally JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

@erickratzer3932 8 лет назад

maybe the team at "Extra Credits" could animate your narration/ oration?

@harrypothead42024 7 лет назад

as soon as I saw the picture of David Mitchell, I knew I had found a video I would like

@ShengTheCraftsman 7 лет назад

mindblown

@guitaoist 5 месяцев назад

It sucks how the Nietzsche conversations were basically cut from the film, even though hes the whole reason behind the concept

@quiroz923 6 лет назад

Now with spanish subtitles!

@BucketListBadass 7 лет назад

true-true

@connorsyrewicz5453 5 лет назад

Nietzsche’s eternal return was a moral litmus test. Nietzsche resented Christianity and any system of belief which encourages people to remain in their suffering in the hope that their suffering will be relieving in the “next life.” Nietzsche wanted people to confront their problems in this lifetime-to live a life of strength and vitality-since this is, Nietzsche thought, the only life we have. The eternal return was meant to encourage this. If you would hate to live your life again and again infinitely, you’re living it wrong. If you would love to live your life again infinitely, then you are living it well.

@victorcz4 8 лет назад

Man, you're just great!!! A critic not to be thrown off balconies by anyone ;) A pity some of your audience seems oblivious to what intelect means ;) but then again everyone's his own critic so they may get better in another life ;) new subscriber so looking forward to your other reviews.

@cheezemonkeyeater 6 лет назад

And this is why the public domain is so important.

@Success4u247 Год назад

I think it’s also a thread of truths that has its Genesis past , presence and future

@erickratzer3932 8 лет назад

a very clear, lucid, well thought out review well done sir i watched Cloud Atlas like 14 times in 3 weeks, studying it. pretty good job with the infinite renewal part too, dont beat yerself so much broah i suggest a figure /graphic /pie chart like thingy to help, you are half way there with the six spoke wheel thingy . i wish you well sir, keep up the good work. -EmK PhD

@katedoes...9783 8 лет назад

My first video of yours is up. This is a wonderful episode. You should go into lecturing.

@tanasaky 8 лет назад

Soo the Nietzsche quote was used by Vaas in Far Cry 3 - "(...) doing the exact same f@#$ing thing over and over again expecting shit to change"?

@jaylittle6465 6 лет назад

Great video. I would only quickly add that the point of the eternal recurrence story is to affirm life when confronted with the absence of a God. You escape nihilism by saying “yes” to life and everything in it. It isn’t too far from Plato’s use of a noble lie in order to form a working republic. There’s a subtle effect on the reader when we are made aware of the lie. We may then choose to be deceived by it, which frees us up to choose an alternate method if it presents itself. We feel empowered when we choose our illusion and the extent to which it is effective on us.

@CREN13Queen 6 лет назад

I really want there to be a book called Bullitt the master of the last of the summer Bridesmaid of the road revisited commander of electric sheep

@patrickgoebel3301 4 года назад

I like the nesting doll analogy

@maddyhoke3907 8 лет назад

whaaaa...? My head hurts.

@TheSkullPanda 5 месяцев назад

Hey, you’re tackling an important and heady project that we highly value, so I appreciate you. Hopefully reading that you’ll see this comment as not typical RU-vid comment section toxicity: you are coming off sarcastic and dismissive with those over the top, forced comedic asides you’re inserting into the analysis. This would be a perfectly fine analysis without you stopping every minute to show us you snarking about “title droooop” or “yellow face!” “haha no one gets this right?!” It’s 2024, you can discuss transcendentalism and humanism without going all nostalgia critic on it. It’s disruptive and immature, especially for the subject matter.

@KyleKallgrenBHH 5 месяцев назад

Good thing I made this video in 2013 then

@TheSkullPanda 5 месяцев назад

@@KyleKallgrenBHH ah, i didn't notice that and this is the first video i've seen by you. Hopefully your style has evolved since then :)

@BR1AN00 7 лет назад

look at somni's face at 14:33

@B612nian 5 лет назад

10:00 The quote in German: _"„Das grösste Schwergewicht. - Wie, wenn dir eines Tages oder Nachts, ein Dämon in deine einsamste Einsamkeit nachschliche und dir sagte: „Dieses Leben, wie du es jetzt lebst und gelebt hast, wirst du noch einmal und noch unzählige Male leben müssen; und es wird nichts Neues daran sein, sondern jeder Schmerz und jede Lust und jeder Gedanke und Seufzer und alles unsäglich Kleine und Grosse deines Lebens muss dir wiederkommen, und Alles in der selben Reihe und Folge - und ebenso diese Spinne und dieses Mondlicht zwischen den Bäumen, und ebenso dieser Augenblick und ich selber. Die ewige Sanduhr des Daseins wird immer wieder umgedreht - und du mit ihr, Stäubchen vom Staube!“ - Würdest du dich nicht niederwerfen und mit den Zähnen knirschen und den Dämon verfluchen, der so redete? Oder hast du einmal einen ungeheuren Augenblick erlebt, wo du ihm antworten würdest: „du bist ein Gott und nie hörte ich Göttlicheres!“"_