Columbus: For Those Who Feel Lost 

Alfo Media Hey man 👋 Loved this video essay. Great pasing and analysis. Didn't know you wanted to do films on this channel too.

wow thank u so much! This movie looks amazing!

This video analysis is so beautiful! It definitely shows the efforts you took for research and editing purpose! Would love to see many more like these!💜

Wow, how cool

I live here. Grew up, met my wife working at the hospital.

Noooo way , dude that's awesome , maybe someone who whatched the movie left that pack

“LA’s fine, but it ain’t home. New York’s home, but it ain’t mine no more.”

Your opinion on this film would be valid with or without this video.

@@ChryskylodonInstitute thank you, I have recently discovered that even if others don’t see the things I do in art I can still love it and know that it is good regardless of their opinions

Can you be specific which Leto ?

They mean Leto 2018, russian film

maybe next time for meee...

Holy sheet indeed, I’m gonna watch the hell off this movie. Super late to the party but better late than never. I identified with your comment, had to say it.

thank you sm!

thanks so much!

The leaving, the missing, the negative - it’s exactly what this film is.

thanks so much! means a lot

thanks so much!

In those 20 years, clearly you haven’t *entirely* not lived there. Columbus is resident in you.

thank you!

he posts them on vimeo ( vimeo.com/kogonada ) but ppl have re-posted them on RU-vid

yep! this is all just kind of learning as I go. just started

and thank you!

Impavid Music How are they making a whole new genre of music? Why does Rex Orange County not just fall under normal Indie Rock?

don't jinx it!!

Still none!!!

Appreciate the criticism! Just trying to get better at this. Thanks

@Blia Yang This was 3 years ago lmao... He had essentially structured an essay around advertising a film rather than analyzing the mechanics/emotional impact of the film. This is totally fine, but he then shouldn't be making claims about what the film does because he hasn't proved it through evidence. Lots of RU-vidrs get lost in the video editing sauce--they chose to make something pretty rather than sharing their understanding. In other words, you need an argument to conclude something. Hope that helps!

@Blia Yang You should say it--you can always delete!

@Blia Yang Interesting! Sounds a lot like liminal spaces if I can invoke internetspeak--or some of the sentiments of Zen of Mahayana Buddhism. Interesting that you mention Gosling lol, but I can definitely see that in some Korean or Japanese films I've seen, Sang-soo's Right Now, Wrong Then or some of Jia Zhangke's work (e.g. Still Life) come to mind :) I've never thought of it as particularly East Asian, but maybe that's because it's something I've always had an infinity towards in my own work

@Blia Yang along the lines of what I got out of this film - the central theme and scene is the park side bench scene, specifically 1:01:09, the son of the missing character helping his protagonist counterpart translate a marginal fragment from a notebook “much ado about >nothing

Earl, I'm late to the party but will add a note for those discovering this in the future. Columbus is home to Cummins (formerly known as Cummins Engine). So many of America's big companies originated in smaller towns and cities but moved as they prospered, grew, and were eventually swept up in mergers and acquisitions. Smaller cities across the country have prestige buildings, now civic white elephants, and upscale residential areas that are ghosts of glory days long gone. Not Columbus. Cummins is a great example of a big global company that stayed independent and stayed home. It operates around the world but its headquarters remain in Columbus. (John Deere, another GREAT, global company that stayed home in Moline, is a similar good example.) If the company is committed to its hometown heritage -- and companies like Cummins and Deere certainly are -- great things can happen. Columbus' unique architectural story began as a personal interest, which turned into a philanthropic mission, of J. Irwin Miller, a Columbus native and longtime President and Chairman of Cummins. He left a mark. Columbus is a wonderful movie. The acting is excellent across the board. John Cho plays Jin with superb restraint and Haley Lu Richardson is nothing short of magical. One of my quibbles, however, is that the Cummins backstory does not receive even a nod. This is relevant to the film. There is an air of Casey being trapped, of Columbus being somewhere young people want to escape, of the city being a backwater. That's not the case. Columbus is home to a major, high tech, global company engaged in heavy manufacturing. Think international business, mechanical and electrical engineering, finance, marketing, materials science, information technology, etc. The city is also only a hour from Indianapolis, 30 miles from Bloomington and IU, and a couple of hours from West Lafayette and Purdue. It ain't a backwater. There are lots of opportunities in Columbus, and not just with Cummins. Casey is trapped by her mother's situation, not by her locale.

tf? how

@@dillweed3902 You know its been so long I'm not sure why i wrote that. I think its because they smoke so much

@@cheetoman23 lmao

@@cheetoman23 😂😂😂