What is the Sunken Place? 

Your best yet! Both in terms of analysis and in the quality of your editing. Nicely done!

It's where this channel's been for the past half year.

god damn. not often does a video essay make you FEEL the point its making. not only did you get your point across logically, in essay fashion, you let the clips speak for themselves and presented them in such a way that i felt it. thank you. amazing work

I want to make NYSI aware that this video changed my life. It made me realise that I had trauma which I wasn't addressing. Since watching this video, I've accept how truly hurt I was from past events. This has allowed me to change my actions and behaviours which were a cover up of how I felt. Now, I have grown a little bit as a better person than who I was before watching this video.

Fantastic video that gave me a lot to think about. I thought it was maybe a missed opportunity to mention some behind the scenes details on Grave of The Fireflies, though, specifically in that it was largely biographical. Akiyuki Nosaka, the writer of the original short story the film is based on, really did lose his parents in firebombings, and lost his baby sister to malnutrition. He blamed himself for her death, which he called "an exact match" to Setsuko's. I think it's easy to see the story as a retelling of Nosaka's trauma where he receives the "punishment" he thought he deserved, but I can also imagine that it was a claiming of the narrative for him. His sister's death was meaningless, but the story gave her a voice. I suppose none of this important to the narrative of the film, but an interesting commentary on how the stories of these unclaimed narrative's can often provide some meaning to the people telling them.

You can really tell how much research went into this video, and it was displayed beautifully. Keep these videos coming!

peele's work makes it so satisfying to keep digging into meanings and motifs, because there are soooo many layers to unpack. i definitely found a lot to dig into with Nope as well!

Satoshi Kon is the master of making 'such' places and brilliantly conveys ideas like memory, past, trauma, reality itself, existence and so on just through Cutting from one scene to another.

As someone with a history of depression, I interpreted the Sunken Place as learned helplessness. You feel like nothing you do could change how the system is set up against you, so your body just shuts down.

Dude made half an hour feel like 10 minutes, brilliant editing, thoroughly engaging at times, this why I love this channel. Good stuff as always, keep it up.

Magnum Opus level right here. Thank you for making this.

Amazing essay. I would add the overdose sequence of TRAINSPOTTING in which Ewan McGregor literally sinks into the floor and the entire sequence is shot from "under the carpet" i.e. probably the original sunken place.

You should have mentioned Being John Malkovich as the whole main premise of Get Out is taken from it. Peele has confirmed the connection and the sunken place look extremely similar in both.

So well done. Gives a whole new meaning to "I don't know". Thank you for this 🙏

the year is saved, Now You See It posted again

The segment at 18:05 was bone chilling and so beautifully edited. The way you put that stuff together is just sublime. The ending tying back to your own channel name was really good and clever as well..

He returns!

You know what's interesting, having memories as a kid that feel like you were in the sunken place. Able to hear everything but see flashes of what your body did as a kid without the full control over your body as in adult, or 7+

Always good that you are able to talk critically about American war movies and its patriotism.

absolutely amazing.

Love your channel. You have really helped me to notice and analyze more things in film. I’m always impressed with the things you point out that just went right over my head lol. Keep it up

Wow! I have no words for good this was! You can see how much thought and effort went into it, it's just brilliant!

precious video essay. loved it.

Incredible work. Layers upon layers of meaning unfolding. I had to keep pausing so I could ponder upon the ideas you've presented here. Thank you for this and congratulations.

This made me think about a lot of stuff. I guess I had some emotions I needed to process and I think this helped, so thanks lol. Great analyses.

Breath taken. Wow. So many threads joined in this one essay. Too many to list. Genuinely a life-changing video. Thank you.

My king! HE has returned!

I don't know, but a new Now You See It video can take me out of it for a while

The best movie analysis channel tbh

Oh my god, that is one of the best video essays or just videos, in general, one of the best videos I've ever seen. well done I love the transition at 16:28 I love all of it really I'm gonna go tell all my friends about it.

Absolute masterpiece of a video!

Its amazing all the analisys troughout the video. I've never thought about it that way. Its amazing how he can connect all those points from such different movies. And connect it with your channel name in the end. Such clever move!!!!

Made me like the movie even more.

You're making me reconsider elements in a play I'm working on. Thank you!

really great video, thanks for coming back with a banger

Phenomenal video, one of your best yet

I just wanted something engaging to listen to as I clean the kitchen. Now, I've cried and reflected on the recent actions I've taken as possible relfections of my trauma :'(

Beautiful work!

brilliant.

Thanks for video

Brilliant!

Amazing great piece I learned a lot

Another beautifully done essay! Very moving.

I'm glad I waited until I fiiiiiinally got to see Get Out (we don't usually have Prime at home) to watch this video. The whole movie was such an experience.

Going to use this for teaching Hamlet to my high schoolers.

This video taught me something about myself

Very cool!

Damn, what an insightful video. Great job!

Gorgeous work 🙌🏻

Wow. Gorgeous analysis, and very relevant to some things I'm realizing and working on in therapy. 😅 The claimed vs unclaimed experience and whether or not we've completed that loop is such a useful concept.

I love your videos, but IMO, this is easily your best yet.

“what if you didn’t catch yourself? where would you go?” what in the fuck im gonna be thinking about that forever. that’s exactly what it feels like! you catch yourself. and it’s desperate! you snatch yourself out of this place with no floor beneath you, you throw yourself into bed for safety. what if you just slipped right through your own grip? how would your body feel, to have missed you? to flinch in the dark, and then go silent, forever? jesus man that’s such a heavy thought. i just never thought of it that way. i always felt that i landed in bed passively, not that i caught myself out of instinctive fear. genuinely terrifying.

Who 'd have thought that a video essay could affect me emotionaly

excellent work!

Fantastic and earned my sub 🙏🏿

As a black man you dont need an explanation. As soon as i saw this scene i understood it as one of the most powerful metaphors for black life ever in film. It's a concept similar to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

awesome work!

Omg I love this. I would have watched this even if it was 2 hours long. Thanks for doing this 😊

Hey, you released a video sooner than 1-2 weeks! I'm so glad to see a video again!

Very very good. Love your editing and writing

Such a lovely video! Only thing that i think could have been metioned more is the power of therapy, specially when we are talking about the repetition that a trauma can make one go through. Being a phychoanalist myself, we see that almost like a call for help, because like you said, even if we are "fullfilling" our wishes the person still stuck, bacause we are not actually dealing with the real problem. And that is when therapy kicks in, so that we acknowledge this (as we call) symptom, and try to understand what are we trying to achieve. Basically, therapy is responsable for making sure you actually "wake up".

Love your content!

Thank you for this. Love from Sentinel Island x

This is so deep. No pun intended

This was a good one

amazing video!

Brilliant video, that made me think a lot about the backrooms. This idea of finding yourself lost in a place you can’t Get out, has terrified many, included me. We are scared of what we could find down there, and we must be brave enough to interpret these figures as answers.

Song at beginning: Childish Gambino - Redbone (Kuga Remix)

Amazing video, my dude

Great video.

I'm just 10 minutes in. Already thinking "brilliant"

Great video, Jack! What music plays at 9:59?

Great video I like how tied it all in into being a message of “Now You See It” which is the name of your channel

Yes

Videazo!

Wow

For me, The Sunken Place much like a lot of hypnotherapy and meditation techniques used to be neutral, depending on who wields it. Missy uses it for Evil. To trap unsuspecting black people into their own bodies while white people take them over. That said, the Sunken Place reminds me of two similar moments. The first is from Earthbound where the character named Poo goes into a state called Mu. A meditative state that takes everything from you. The second was Johnny's Got his Gun. Where a guy through an explosion lost his hearing, sight, smell and taste. He retreats into his mind through fantasy and memory. Makes me think the Sunken Place is one of those things.

"I make you a promise, Martha won't die tonight."

I love these videos. They are truly inspiring, in the sense that they make me want to think more, about movies, art in general, philosophy, and most importantly: People

i feel like i'm in the sunken place when i find myself dissociating but can't get back to the present or understand what ppl are saying to me

That was really really good. Video essays can be a lot of fluff with little critical thinking. This was fantastic

Interestingly enough, the roots of both words "dream" (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrowgʰ-mos, from *dʰrewgʰ- (“to deceive, injure, damage”), and "trauma" (From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”) translate to "damage, wound/injury". 🙂

So utterly baffling the view count on this one. You should be proud of yourself for this one!

Woah he changed the background instrumental For real though what is that instrumental hip Hop song you always used to use, I keep forgetting the name of it, please say

What a video! Amazing work and so well done! Thanks for making it, it really is great!

The song please. The one from the beginning

Hell...it's about Damn time

Why would you cut from an older Private Ryan saluting after he had lived a full life with his family beside him to Setsuko saluting? Why would you break my heart like that?

after watching this i just realized a major plot hole in “get out!”: how can Georgina's conscious returns if the brains in her head is Chris's girlfriend's grandma's? (lots of genitive case in one question, I know)

No grave of the fireflies, please no!!!

This video was traumatic, only watched once

Encantos ending sucks ass and Abuela definitely deserves to be punished imo but that beginning is beautiful and definitely proves your point.

I seems kind of like very severe ME/ CFS

How you doing?

Could you do a video on the films that tried to emulate the success of The Matrix if possible?

There's a great film analysis podcast I highly recommend called Psyop Cinema. They did a long indepth look into the film Get Out

Haven’t even seen Get Out so I can’t watch this video

can you please list all of the films you are going to reference in your description. It's hard to watch knowing that there might be a film I have not seen yet like "Manchester By The Sea" where you are just going to spoil the whole film, without any warning.

Immediate magnum opus

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