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Been thinking about this recently in the context of Megapolis, any thoughts on the recent flop?

I enjoyed this video so much - thank you. I knew that Andersson raised funds for his studio by making commercials, but I didn't know that the commercials were sometimes mini versions of 'The Living' trilogy. I hadn't appreciated how political the films are until now. Watching your video, I was reminded of Michael Haneke, specifically 'Hidden'. I have a very happy memory of watching Songs from the Second Floor at the Arts Picturehouse in my first year at university. I regularly think about the film - it's so original and funny.

Great content and analysis. I'd watch anything you make on it

This is an awesome video. "The Island" = the show 100% Narrative form becomes narrative content 100% To expand on that: The entire series is a magic/mystery box, where individuals fill the box with what they WANT the meaning to be, but I also think the Monster is implied to be a product of the island/light/magic/mystery box, with the power to appear as people who represent what/who is motivating a character at a given time in the show (meaning the MiB is essentially any creepy appearance that advances the plot towards conflict or character death). This includes Jacob's flashbacks as well. His motivations involve the murdered man in black, which is why, for him, the Monster is the MiB. This is why 1. His brother's body washes up dead and 2. Darlton references there being Monsters before the one we know (Mother, who has just been killed, was one). The afterlife in S6 is tied to more mystery/magic box imagery (when Widmore teleports Desmond, the series finale opening montage), as well as the "light," possibly implying that this afterlife is the extreme upper limit of the island's wish-fulfillment vision capability, all happening inside the moment of death.

I don't know, I get the criticism, but I feel like it's one of the most thramatically consistent shows I've ever seen. The whole fath science and Destiny all gets explored in some pretty interesting ways. As for the afterlife thing I mean it was poorly handled but it's still make sense in terms of the show. I mean, that's what the energy was under the island. That's what the show was all about was the energy. So it makes sense to show how it works at the end. it's a good payoff. The show was convoluted, but that's due to studio meddling. And maybe weed was heavily involved in the writing of the show.

what an excellent video!

I’m still waiting my friend 😪

Great video, one of the best ones on Roy that I've come across.

This was great

This is great stuff. It deserves at least 10x the views it already has. I hope you keep making them- if something with this level of quality is an “early” work, I’m very excited to see you move forward.

Returning to this amazing video hyped for the next‼️

Wow beautiful video! It has so much admiration for cinema and andersson works! Thank u so much!

I never saw any of his work before Songs From The Second Floor, so it's fascinating to see how his style evolved. It's so strange seeing the camera move (lol). In a documentary about the making of one of his films (I think it was called "Being A Human Person"?) he talked about how Goya was one of his favorite artists, and I think it's interesting that Goya went through a similar transition where his style became basically unrecognizable when compared to his older work. He went from being a court painter who painted portraits of royalty etc. to producing some of the most powerful and unforgettable images ever created in his "Black Paintings" era (Saturn Devouring His Son etc). I kinda see World of Glory or Songs From The Second Floor as the beginning of the Roy Andersson "Black Paintings" era but maybe that's reaching. Anyways, another great video. Keep it up!

wow, your channel is great and this series is great! keep it up!!

it's a great video essay and also a great production with your idea about the artist who skip the 80's thing, hope you got the recognition in your next video. Always love Roy Andersson movie, definitely my favorite filmmaker in this era, hope he have a long life

Although I believe that "Lost" had its flaws like many other shows, good or bad, I don't agree with your particular criticisms. I had no issues with the finale, aside from the lack of Michael and Walt. And my favorite part of the series was the second half of Season 3 to the end of Season 5.

Great work

About your reference to evil empires. All empires are evil, including the present American one.

You need more subscribers

I promised myself i'd sleep tonight, instead i stayed up and binged this entire series.

Hey! My channel became unavailable for a reason(nothing insane I promise), but I just want to let you know that I didn't delete my comment and I strongly stand by my conviction that you and this video rule. Also that George Lucas's jump scare in Mishima was the craziest twist in that movie.

This is great, can't wait for the next part :)

Thank u so much. I re watch roy andersson's movie but i need some explanation about his movies. My english is not well (í m peruvian) but i hope you understand.

God damn this is high quality. Looking forward to the rest of this series.

really enjoying this so far keep it up bud :)

Wonderful stuff!

Last season doesnt exist they made it for money obviously same goes for 5th. The show was 3 seasons at first but capitalism....

great video

I just watched Lost for the first time. I think this is the best essay I've seen yet. More please?

I like how the spoilers warning in the beginning was similar to what you would see in a "references"/"works cited" page for a paper

I love it from the perspective of a pulp comic turned into a show. At least the 5 seasons. 6 was shite IMO because it turned more into sappy spiritual crap

This is a great essay. I just started season 6 on my second watch through. Aside from watching some of the First season in Highschool I didn't watch in its entirety until a few months after the series ended. I just had to pause to celebrate your Southland Tales references...criminally underrated, one of my favourite films. Well played sir.

I watched this show when i was a kid and absolutely loved it then rewatched on my teens and now im on my third watch in life and this essay was a great complementary analysis for it

Great video! Love Lost, love Lost analysis.

I very much enjoyed the video essay. Very well edited and paced out, and you raised up a lot of important and fun questions and aspects to the series. I have a lot to say about LOST, but I think I'll keep it short. LOST is undoubtedly my favorite show, both in terms of sentimental value and for the show's engaging narrative and creative ideas as well. But I guess to me also LOST represents the best teacher when it comes to writing. It has it all. It's a smart, beautifully complex, enthralling stupid mess that doesn't make sense ... But really it does. And I say this joyfully! :)

Incredible essay man! Can we expect more in the future? :)

Nice video! Thanks for uploading!

This was really great! I really enjoyed your insights and observations, even if I don't agree with them all. I love LOST, but I do prefer the first three seasons over the last three for pretty much the same reasons you brought up. The main issue, I think, is not that the show chooses not to explore the questions it raises, but that (in some cases) it gives multiple answers to the same mystery. When it comes to death on the show, I think the writers did a fine job of giving meaning to it. BUT like you said, there are various "types" of death. The Smoke Monster can take the form of a dead person, but the show also depicts the afterlife. The explanation for the "Whispers" is actually the opposite of the flashsideways: they turn out to be dead people stuck on the island, unable to move on. Meanwhile, characters get resurrected as followers of the Smoke Monster, but there are literal ghosts as well. Miles and Hurley actually have a debate over the fact that they can speak to dead people in different ways; Miles seems convinced that, because a dead person's brain doesn't function anymore, there's simply no way to "chat" with them. Yet Hurley does. The "how" is never explored, which is why many of the appearances of dead people on the show can be so up to interpretation. That's part of the fun for me, personally, but I also completely get the argument that it doesn't make a ton of sense. In the same way, the show's characters often talk about "sickness", but it eventually turns out none are talking about the same one. Even time-travel is not always used in the same way, though the show makes it clear that Desmond is "special" in that sense. I hadn't thought of the similarities between the show's cultures/groups before. You could chalk that up to the fact that "the Others" are basically leftovers of several groups that have arrived on the island. But I agree that it probably is a form of "flawed" writing like you said, since the differences are so very minor - they're all mysterious groups acting in mysterious, often aggressive ways, most times following some mysterious leader. Again, in some cases, there are "mysterious" characters that appear to know more than they actually do... In the case of Eloise Hawking, it is made clear that she receives Faraday's journal after killing him; her mission seems to be to "preserve the timeline" (thus needing to ensure the Oceanic Six return to the island for "the Incident" to occur). The journal explains how she knows more about time-travel and future events. But the fact that she kills Faraday before the Incident occurs also explains why she was not able to predict the consequences of events/actions that occurred after the departure of the second airplane (wait, what?). Your exploration of narrative "structure" vs "content" was very interesting. I suppose, in the case of the flashback in "Greatest Hits", you can argue it's the latter, as we're basically witnessing the events that Karl is telling the survivors about? But then, there is also the part that Karl was not present for. Hmm. I think it's the only format-breaking on-island flashback on the show. In some other episodes, we do get flashbacks for characters that aren't "central" to that episode; Juliet gets a flashback in the Jacob-centric "The Incident", and Ilana gets a flashback in the Richard-centric "Ab Aeterno". The latter is played like a short montage, with Ilana talking about Jacob's visit while we're watching it occur. One minor thing; I think the term "flashsideways" makes sense, mainly because Christian explains there is no "now" in that world. Jack is reuniting people that died before AND after him, because the flashsideways is actually occurring... right now, all at once? Maybe "flashforward" is less confusing...

Great vid! You pointed out some things I had never realized, like Locke's past as a middle management guy at a box company and his similar role after discovering the hatch

really enjoyed this. I feel like its hard to come across LOST discussion that isn't either overly apologetic or fundamentally misunderstanding the show (though even for them I agree with you that the show deserves more responsibility for the confusion of its ending than the apologists want to admit). Don't really have a ton to add but wanted to be sure to comment for the algorithm cuz this is criminally underviewed. I found your point about the group cultures to be especially interesting and something I hadn't thought about before. Even both survivor groups gravitate so quickly to the hierarchical system and even in cases where they split up like the caves/beach or dharmaville/the beach they aren't really any differences explored its just jack/locke at the head of the hierarchy. And your point about being unable to tell whether its clever commentary or lazy writing is funny to me because I myself have felt similar about a lot of different aspects of the show like: 1. problems caused by lack of communication 2. the emptiness/futility of a life spent pursuing the island (or life)'s great mysteries 3. how our own perceptions of life's rules constrain our behavior despite having no power. IE the rules between ben/widmore and jacob/mib which are never explained and seem to have no power since they are broken routinely in both cases with no consequences. Subscribed in hopes you decide to make more similar content.