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Peeping Tom (1960) - Art is Voyeurism
Directed by the legendary Michael Powell, Peeping Tom was a thriller, one so shocking at its time of release that it ruined its director's career. Its themes of art, beauty, voyeurism, and violence were too much for the British public it was trying to appeal to, and it suffered for it critically and financially.
Mark Lewis, the movie's main character, is one of film's greatest villains, rivalling Anthony Perkins in Psycho, a character which he shares a lot in common with.
Over the years, the movie has gained in reputation, and is now considered to be one of the best horror movies of all time. This is my analysis of the film.
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Top 13 Films About Witches and Witchcraft
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As the centuries pass, witchcraft and sorcery remain as common plot elements within storytelling. Film, as a medium which can show us anything, is great at capturing both the magic and the dread inherit within the archetype of witches and warlocks. In this video essay, I explore 13 of the best examples of this. Their genres include horror, comedy, animated films, and even documentary.
Shane (1953) - The Western That Stars You
Просмотров 5 тыс.14 дней назад
In this video, I analyze the 1953 classic western Shane, directed by George Stevens. The purpose of this analysis is to highlight the movie's self-referential qualities, the way it plays with the archetypical heroes and villains in a fashion that's self-conscious and thematically relevant. Alan Ladd represents good in an almost elemental way. Jack Palance, likewise, becomes almost the living pe...
Real Human Being (And a Real Hero) - Marge Gunderson and Fargo (1996)
Просмотров 23821 день назад
This video analysis examines Marge Gunderson as one of the great heroes in any fictional medium. As one of two main characters in the Coen Brothers' classic Fargo, she embodies the good that can be derived from modest Midwestern America. Played beautifully by Frances McDormand, the character embodies virtues which stretch as far back as ancient folklore (King Arthur, Gilgamesh, Achilles), and w...
Outside of a Dream - Mulholland Drive and the Mystery of the Man Behind Winkies
Просмотров 352Месяц назад
A video essay on the famous Diner Scene from David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive. In this video, I explore the scene itself, in terms of filmmaking, storytelling, characterization, and themes by comparing it to the film as a whole, and to Lynch's career as a director more broadly. Is this a mystery capable of being understood, or will it forever remain an enigmatic detail in a film full of them...

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  • @normanby100
    @normanby100 38 минут назад

    Is the man behind the diner Naomi Watts heavily made up?

  • @miloradvlaovic
    @miloradvlaovic 15 часов назад

    Interesting topic choice for someone who doesn't believe in the Supernatural. Rosemary's baby doesn't have an ambiguous ending though, those people admit themselves to be witches or rather theistic satanists. We can argue about was the baby normal or not, or just had a nasty pimple eruption or was dressed in a costume lol... but it wasn't just Rosemary's paranoia. There was a cult of people conspiring so unanimously that actual magick would be more realistic 🤣 Also, If you don't believe in supernatural, why would you believe in good and evil (apropos the Wizard of Ozz comment). If ethical concepts such as good and evil exist, their origin must be supernatural. Anything else, would from a logical and rational point of view, ironically be - magical thinking 😂

    • @RiverBarcid
      @RiverBarcid 9 часов назад

      I think in the case of Rosemary's Baby, it belongs to the apartment trilogy. In that trilogy, the first and last film were designed to be ambiguous as to how much of what the main character was experiencing was real. Rosemary's Baby is the most concrete of the three obviously, but I think many of the people involved with it, including Polanski himself, are on record that the point of the movie was to be ultimately vague. The ending happened on screen, but so did the dream sequence. When I watch the movie, I see the ending as being literally true, but I also think there's a possibility that it's a metaphor for the forces that women and mothers face in the world. In terms of good and evil having their origin in the supernatural, it's not so much that I'm against that concept. For all I know, that could very well be true. It's more that I don't have a strong positive belief in it being true. That's what I mean when I say I don't believe in the supernatural. But with that being said, even when it comes to belief in the supernatural, there are even many religions that don't believe good and evil have origins in the supernatural at all. Good and evil are just by-products of normal behavior in these religions. In ancient Greece, both humans and gods were good and evil, and it wasn't because the gods invented either, but because the gods invented the world as a physical place, and within that physical place, people make both good and bad decisions, and often times knowledge regarding what the right path is is impossible to ever be entirely sure of. So in other words, the ancient Greek position on good and evil is identical to the materialist position. I don't think that this disproves the possibility of good and evil being supernatural, as it could just be that the ancient Greek religion was incorrect about this. The point I'm trying to make is that I personally don't know where good and evil come from. If you think it's definitively a case of supernatural forces, that's cool. Like I said, you might very well be correct. I was just talking about my lack of belief in the supernatural personally. I wasn't trying to say that people who do believe in the supernatural were wrong or that I know what does or doesn't exist. What I know, what I believe, and what I want to believe are all very different categories. I don't know if the supernatural is real or not, I don't have a belief that it is necessarily, but I would prefer it if it was true and I hope that it is.

  • @Nicolas.Vincent
    @Nicolas.Vincent День назад

    Rob Zombie's Lords Of Salem, his best work imo.

  • @SpelCastrMax
    @SpelCastrMax День назад

    Some more recommendations you might like if you haven’t seen them: Practical magic, Viy, Blood on Satan’s Claw, & the Witch’s Mirror

    • @RiverBarcid
      @RiverBarcid День назад

      Those sound good. I've heard about Viy, and I've even read the story it's based on. The stills of it look great.

  • @cheesezee86
    @cheesezee86 День назад

    Well said

  • @jamescardello6173
    @jamescardello6173 2 дня назад

    U forgot a few other good ones. City of the Dead, aka Horror Hotel, Burn Witch Burn, The Devil Rides Out, The Seventh Victim, The Black Cat 1934 version. Curse, Night of the Demon 1958. The Woman who Came Back. Witches of Eastwick. Etc.

    • @RiverBarcid
      @RiverBarcid 2 дня назад

      I've seen City of the Dead, The Devil Rides Out, and Night of the Demon. They're great movies. I haven't seen the others, so I'll check those out.

  • @stevejones662
    @stevejones662 4 дня назад

    This was great, seen most of these but now have some others to check out. I loved the remake of Suspiria. You should check out The Lords of Salem if you havent seen it. In my opinion one of Rob Zombie's best films. And the remake of Suspiria, was incredible!

    • @RiverBarcid
      @RiverBarcid 4 дня назад

      Yeah, I really enjoyed the Supiria remake. It was a great example of using the original as a springboard for something unique. I haven't seen Lords of Salem, but I've heard good things about it. I'm definitely going to put it on my queue.

  • @jace8531
    @jace8531 5 дней назад

    Great video, narration, and recommendations! Excited for what you are going to do with this channel.

    • @RiverBarcid
      @RiverBarcid 5 дней назад

      Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

  • @johnnowakowski4062
    @johnnowakowski4062 8 дней назад

    I always believed that Joey was the essential character when it came to the structure of the movie, as our window for observing a parenthesis in time where all roads came together at a moment in the history of the world he grew up in..

  • @dougmoore5252
    @dougmoore5252 8 дней назад

    Why is the guy talking?

  • @gwainwright82
    @gwainwright82 13 дней назад

    Really good review. I watched Fargo as a teen and it left me frustrated. I'd grown up on big epic films, bombastic fights against good versus evil, Star Wars etc like you introduce at the start. The mundane evil and mundane good seen in Fargo made me want more but it is in those quiet common moments, we find a greater message which your summary conveys.

    • @RiverBarcid
      @RiverBarcid 12 дней назад

      Thanks man! And I know what you mean. I think I had a similar reaction the first time seeing it as well. Seeing the movie many times since then, it's now one of my favorites.

  • @vicentelopez2101
    @vicentelopez2101 13 дней назад

    Fantástico vídeo 👏 Quizás no me entiendas (a causa del idioma) pero Mulholand Drive es una de las películas mas especiales que he visto en toda mi vida. La escena de Winkies me parece una obra maestra en todo el sentido de la palabra, aún recuerdo el tremendo susto que me causó el "hombre" detrás del restaurante.

    • @RiverBarcid
      @RiverBarcid 13 дней назад

      I don't speak Spanish, but I used google translate to understand, and I agree with you, it has to be the most terrifying scene in any movie.

  • @zg9445
    @zg9445 Месяц назад

    Very interesting stuff, well done!

    • @RiverBarcid
      @RiverBarcid Месяц назад

      Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

  • @HarmonyRev
    @HarmonyRev Месяц назад

    Great analysis!