It's Okay to Leave the Kids Table
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- It's Okay to Leave the Kids Table, It's Okay to Grow Up. This video is a dive into a take nobody asked for on the 2009 movie Fantastic Mr. Fox. Why did I make this, I don't know, I wanted to. I hope you enjoy.
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I always love seeing someone say "this isn't my usual content but it's something I wanted to make" and they're rewarded for it.
problem with that is the algorithm doesnt recommend their usual content and it still stays under the rug
@@atlasdude. Always, All these amazing channels with under 30k views.
Two things:
Mrs. Fox changing from lightning storms to tornadoes makes more sense if the paintings represent how she views her husband
All the Animals having American accents and all the humans having British accents is always going to be funny to me. England is the perfect punching bag, especially as a foil to America
...for..?
@@stellap-m4345 you know (I forgot to add the rest)
Especially since Roald Dahl is welsh.
@@littlefox7694 Though he was born to Norwegian immigrant parents, and lived most of his life in England (though he did live in the US and a couple of African colonies as well). In terms of being Welsh, he was born there and spent his early childhood there, but that's as far as it goes.
Which is especially amusing since the film was made in the UK. MacKinnon and Saunders, based in Altrincham, made the puppets and the whole thing was filmed in a studio in London. The US involvement is the majority of the voice cast, 2/3rds of the production companies, and the distributor (so basically the talent and the money!).
This video is super comforting to me tbh. I've been scared of growing up, but now it doesn't sound so bad.
Aw man I'm glad to hear that. I went into making this cause I think I get into my own head a lot about it, its really nice to see all the ppl who seem to have felt similar. And I agree, it doesn't sound so bad in the end :)
@@NapoleonVIINapsharing is caring! We are a family of emotions and experiences. We are at the table of ideas, enjoying the potluck that we have brought to each other. In this parasocial case, your dish being the centerpiece that we appreciate.
it did the opposite to me, glad you've accepted it though
Don't be fooled, being an adult is really scary. Its also really fun and rewording, as long as you don't let your fear control you :)
Buddy let me tell you. Being grown up isn't easy and yeah it has lots of woes. But being able to say, do, shop, think, eat, go, wherever you want? Being able to trade your energy and time, even at a place you possibly hate, for at least money and experience, is galaxies way better than being forced to against your will be stuck for 5 days a whole week unpaid in a place that is boring and miserable where you get bullied or have to worry about grades and learning things that are mostly useless and being valued as a human being for how well you always fall in line or just shut up and repeat back what is already known a hundred times. Nobody for the most part likes doing adult work but the cool thing about it is, not only can you choose it, when someone mistreats you you can actively pursue legal Justice, or at least just quit the job, without any legal consequences about it. You can forgo jobs and be an entrepreneur or just sit on your butt at home all day and rely on a sugar daddy, or welfare, or good friends help... it doesn't matter...no one at the end ultimately can tell you who to really be or why you should do something without your consent first. There is no fixed destiny for any of us and when you're a kid you have to be ground to a pulp trying to figure that out and that pressure is driving everyone mad in their teenage years. But when you're an adult you realize I could just turn this car around and go wherever *I* want, whenever I want, if I really have to and I have all the means to. Unlike when you're young you don't honestly need to demand of yourself anything beyond what personally keeps you alive and satisfies you. When you grow up, you you don't give a crap about "cringe." You don't have to care if you choose not to what the neighbors say or the other adults say. I mean you can but unlike School you aren't usually forced into situations against your will to be round others who judge you. Having freedom is more important than anything. Appreciate it whenever you get there instead of dreading the future or wallowing in the past.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of my favourite movies ever, ever since I saw it for the first time as a kid. There's something so warm, wistful and real yet conforting about the themes and the characters. I have never seen such a splendid piece of media such as this movie.
The slowed down "stay with me" with these themes being discussed hits so spirtually deep
I really love animation of nearly every kind, and the direction and VA were incredible, not to mention the story. One of my favorite movies too
The timing of this video is remarkable. My university film club is literally playing fantastic mr fox tomorrow (shoutout UBC). I needed to hear this, I’m 24 and I feel so old compared to my other classmates. After taking a couple gap years when my grades plummeted during the pandemic, it feels like I’ve lost those crucial years of my life. All year I’ve struggled with feeling that I don’t belong or that I’m too far gone. Definitely gonna view this film through this lens tomorrow.
You should be proud of yourself for pursuing your dreams at any age! Congrats on being in college, that's awesome.
God Bless! We really weren't prepared well, were we? The last few generations (I'd say Gen X, Gen Y and Millennials especially) have been failed pretty badly by the system. Still, try not to pay attention to that feeling, it's not true. Jesus loves you no matter how well or poorly your youth was spent, and loving Him back is what will matter in the end, when all other things fade away.
Hey man, as somebody who still wishes that he just took a few gap years during the pandemic, good on you. You did what was best for yourself at the time. Hope you had a good time at the showing.
amen, brother.
I'm 34 and feel I've blown it, but I know 44 year Olds, 54 year Olds, 64 year Olds who turn their lives around. You're never going to feel finished, if we were ever satisfied we wouldn't have buildings government, internet, penicillin. Congratulations, you're on the very cusp of your pre frontal cortex being fully developed and that is a game changer. Have fun.
I'm 29 and I'm still waiting for my life to start.
nobody's going to start your life for you and all that time will pass whether you're living it meaningfully or not x
I heard this story about a fish. He swims up to this older fish and says, "I'm trying to find this thing they call the ocean."
"The ocean?" says the older fish. "That's what you're in right now."
"This?" says the young fish. "This is water. What I want is the ocean."
The time will pass anyways
@@JimTheCurator that’s true but fucking gay lol
Fist bump for the hamtaro pic
Shocked to see this channel only has 1.5k subs, you've got a great voice for video essay content. Hope this channel gets the recognition it deserves.
I was at 960 before this video... its def been a crazy 2 days with this video😅 But thanks thats kind of ya to say
@NapoleonVIINap bro I watched it the first time when you were still there. Congrats. This was perfect and may go down the movie review hall of fame.
1:00 We're going back in time to the first Thanksgiving... to take turkeys off the menu.
Charismatic, casual, with this soft hit of tongue in cheek self aware humor that flows so naturally. Gem.
Havent liked, commented, and subscribed to a random rec this fast in a minute. Keep it up homie :)
Oh man careful with the compliments, you'll give me a big head 😅 Thats super kind of you though, I'm glad you enjoyed it I had a great time making it!
i dont care that this video is 8 months old i fucking love fantastic mr fox and video essays tysm
I teared up a little bit… I’m 26 now and people started making fun of my age by 24. I’m not afraid to be old I’m afraid of how people will treat me when I am. When I no longer have any visual use for them.. or I haven’t accomplished getting a good job.
I just watched Fantastic Mr. Fox yesterday and today this popped up in my recommended. I’ve had a hard time dealing with the transition to college, my fears for the future and regretting opportunities I feel that I missed. This video was a comfort to me and I’m sure to a lot of other people. Thank you. :)
I never really comment on videos, but I recently watched this film and your video hit some cord in my head regarding growing old. I lost half my time at university due to the pandemic and felt robbed of what I was told should be your “best years”, thrown into adulthood and the inevitable responsibility that comes with it. I’m 24 now and this video and the idea of leaving the kids table (even though I don’t celebrate thanksgiving lol) and being scared of that has helped me accept that it’s ok to grow older just that little bit more. Awesome video essay man!
It’s crazy that this video got to me before my last Thanksgiving while in High school. Struggling on the thought of what’ll mean to finally grow up, being an adult and this current year already flying by and being scared of not enjoying the last bit of “childhood” and grasping at something that isn’t there. A feeling. The feeling of child like wonderment that was only there when it need it to be. Growing up for me is realizing it’s ok that I won’t feel that anymore or in reality that it’s gonna look and feel different…and that’s ok. Hope that makes sense :)
Also really get the having a mid life crisis since age 10😭
This video is perfect timing for me because I've been thinking about the struggles of growing up a lot lately. I'm in my mid 20s and I still feel like a child in so many ways, I want to grow up so bad but I'm afraid at the same time and with so so many obstacles. I'm certain a lot of people feel the same way I do so best of luck to everyone, I'm definitely gonna try my best to grow up into someone I want to be. Love Fantastic Mr. Fox and great video btw
"the immature obsession with what was or what happened in the past will always keep you sat at the kids table."
fuck man i really needed to hear that today, with the fact that my past and people from my past keep turning up to try and ruin what's going on in my life and stomp out the flame i have pushing me forward with my passions, it's nice to hear from a random video on youtube that i'm not going crazy, and to hear the same sort of advice repeated from another source. thank you, genuinely.
Weird to focus on but i appreciate the retrowave/city pop in the background. I always thought that kind of music was perfect for this sort of whistful but introspective look into our inner selves. Like a soft breeze blowing past you at sunset, the volitile mixture of emotions in you gets shaken loose by that odd half remembered feeling of hearing music just like this some time long ago. Or im nuts. Great vid, thanks for doing it!
I have never experienced what it's like to watch or read something at just the right time, as in the time you really needed to hear or read those words, but I finally do with this video, and it's FANTASTIC to say the least. I usually go for dark or obscure and mind boggling things to watch or consume, but this video just resonates with me in a good way. I am going to college soon and I feel like I missed out on so much of my life already, and I can't truly make a solid shape of who I am, and I am not sure I want to, I don't want to grow up just like Mr. Fox, but maybe accepting change and looking at the past as a fun short film isn't too bad, I will leave the kids table and make my own adult table soon.
21:50 - can't overhear the wonderful yet so distant and quiet background music you chose "stay with meee" - "hah love that one... wait what was he saying now?"
I’ve been spiraling lately. A DUI, a bad relationship, and crippling depression. I’m scared every day and I have little hope. This video was bittersweet to me and it helped me change my perspective a little. Thank you
I hope your okay, God bless
hope ur doing good man 😊
Kinda fitting I get this video recommended to me on a day when the pinched nerve in my back is acting up and I feel all kinds of depressed about not being who I used to be. It's a great and honest analysis of one of the most misunderstood and underappreciated movies.
woah. killer video, bro. keep this positive outlook on person growth as you develop your creative style. i can’t wait to see what you do next. no matter what it is. fantastic🦊 job!
Thats so so kind of you, thanks! I think making this helped me find that positivity with my relationship to growing up/growth and I'm so glad it seems to be resonating with others too
@@NapoleonVIINapmuch needed and appreciated positivity. In this kalyug, I and many have become doomers or dissociated but stuff like this helps us to feel beautiful and appreciate life again. :)
It is bittersweet but we cling to hope.
An incredible video. The love and sheepishly admitted melodrama of your script gave your message a special significance - that this was not just a rehashing of the movies events, but instead that you spoke of what it meant *to you*. I have to imagine that writing the script was almost intimate in how honest it was, in how you put to words something that really resonated with not just me, but with everyone else singing it’s praises. Great work, really.
Rarely do I end a video from a creator I’ve never seen before and just sit back and literally say to myself, “Wow, that was a great video.” But this one made me do just that. Your narrative voice is so unique in the RUclips video essay game yet so incredibly familiar and warm and welcoming, not to mention the amazing thematic consistency that tied everything together in the end perfectly. Thank you for making this video, I’ll for sure watch whatever you make next.
recently my brother went off to college. and now, since he’s i guess “properly grown up” because he moved out and everything, he sits at the adults table. it’s really strange at the kids table now without him. any holiday i’ve been to i’ve sat near him and now that he’s not there anymore it’s like there’s a void that begs to be filled. don’t get me wrong, i’m glad he’s grown up and doing his own thing, but a part of me will always miss when it was just us and our cousins at the kids table. him moving and growing up marks a big moment in my life where i need to adjust to not having him there anymore, and that’s scary to think because i’m not sure how i should feel about it. part of me wants to grieve that he’s not here all the time anymore, part of me wants to feel relieved i don’t have another person bugging me every day, and part of me wants to stop time and keep everything the same because change is scary, but part of me accepts change must happen and being scared is normal, as is growing up and leaving the kids table, but yet another part of me will always yearn for what once was, just us and our cousins in the ever growing and changing kids table
This video hits well. The moment I left the kids table, the moment I decided to really take control of my life for myself and no one else, was when I started my transition. Transitioning in my mid/late 20s has been interesting, because according to some I'm so lucky and early and to others I might as well not bother because I'm too old. And going home as a different gender, as a different person, was one of the fears that kept me in the closet for so many years. I wasn't able to hide that I'd changed, that I was making decisions purely for myself, that I disregarded what some of them taught and I'm happier for it. I don't know where I'm going with this, but I just find transitioning an interesting compliment to a lot of the themes you touched on about growing up and changing, holding on to yourself while embracing new circumstance to make your life better.
This is such a good take on what the Fantastic Mr Fox movie stands for. The notion that you will need to transition and find what this metaphorical “grown up table” is to you really puts into perspective that change is something that doesn’t always have to mean bad things since you’re finding this “grown up table” on your terms. You can change for the better, and that’s what is meaningful in the transition. Very good dissection!
as someone who didnt get to transition but was rather thrown onto the adults table. covid, dropping out in year 10 and getting an apprenticeship (and the things that come with a full time job) plus having quite a high iq (not a good thing im constantly stressed and do have ADD), i still feel like a kid because the transition stage that usually happens never did, im a kid mentally in an adults body, and have mates that point it out, they like it but also understand the issues i have like lacking feelings, not because they arent there, but that i never knew they were feelings i could feel. i've accepted myself now but this movie when i first watched it and later now still hits home.
This is probably my favorite film of all time that I’ve watched since I was probably about six years old. I think I’ve always felt the deep undertones of this film, but the way that you were able to formulate ideas, that I already felt about the film was nothing but beautiful. Thank you for the clarity.
very much enjoyed and I think its more than the fact that fantastic mr fox is a movie that holds a very very special place in my heart. I think your description of the transitional where you figure out your place in the world is underfunded, and exactly the sorta topic that I want to listen to right now. I might be just a college freshman, but I enjoy knowing what to expect and I'm am thankful for analysis such as these.
idk if anything I wrote made sence, but overall great video!
Listening to this as I pack my suitcase for thanksgiving break. Thank you.
Earned a subscription on this discussion of middle-age as expressed through a stop-motion movie I've never watched.
The folly of youth is thinking the best days are only ahead of us. The folly of age is thinking the best days are only behind us.
I'm 21 and I still choose to sit at the kid's table. I would rather talk about Fortnite than cancel culture and gender politics for the 1000th time
I'm 40 and still feel the same way
Jokes on you we talk about Fortnite and cancel culture at the kids table 😂
Fun fact. Canada's Thanksgiving is actually in October, and it is its completely own thing that can be traced back before American Thanksgiving (1621 vs 1578).
Had to stop the video bc almost started crying. I just turned 21 and think this is the year I’m no longer part of the little kids table and I didn’t even realize last year was my last year…
God why do you care? Children are annoying stupid troglodytes, people need to stop this culture of being a adult means your never allowed to ask for help or not know what to do, when your born into this world no one is looking out for you, the only difference now is that you've realized the fact that was always their, being a child is a traumatizing pointless battle created by your own helplessness, abuse and exploitation from lack of consent is inevitable. If I ever get my 3 wishes one of them would be to make childhood and children cease to exist, people are meant to be complete beings stop glamorizing the helpless larval state we are all forced to suffer through
Stay With Me was an excellent song choice for the conclusion. The connections between Miki Matsubara's experience as a star and the themes in this video are amazing.
i’m 23 turning 24 this year and i’m still struggling with growing up. this really helped
STAY WITH MEEEE
Oh yeah someone finally made an essay video on this amazing movie. I've really liked this movie for a long time but It's really rare to see someone analyze it even though there's a lot of analysis to be done. Great video too
With talking about leaving the kids table, it feels like I've been aware that one day I'd have to do so from an incredibly young age. Toward the end of this year it's not even my choice to do so and being scared is an understatement. I believe your video has had it's intended effect, I now realize that maybe not the best days of my life have past and there's still more to come. I'm just not looking forward to those lows and the rather unfortunate reality that I've got to live. Well, maybe I'm not scared of growing up, but instead having to live my life. Thank you for making this video, clearly I and many others needed it...
Very fascinating analysis. I think acceptance of maturity is vital to any fully fledged individual. However, in stark contrast to the general sentiments of the commenters, I'm going to be the contrarian here. Frankly, I don't resonate with the message at all, precisely because of my encounterings with the adult table. Rather than evolving in Self, if anything, with every adult I have ever known or seen, in life or the internet, they appear in their totality to me to have experienced a devolution of Self. Rather than growing in character they wither; they seemed sapped of all optimism or hope, joy, happiness, love, compassion, empathy, graditutde, toleration, or basic human dignity; its especially apparent in the 30-50 year old cohort with the popularity of doomerism as all. Quite in fact, they give off the impression of having given up completely. They rot away in passionless marriages, they spite their fellow man in tribal cabals, and they parrot self-destructive ideologues. It's very depressing to say, but they're pathetic, pure and simple. Perhaps I'm blinded by the formula of my recommendations but I have experienced and perceived a profound shifting of people's personalities into self seeking infantilism. And this is prevalent in our generation too, especially within our teenage boys. Lord knows how red pilled philosophy is rotting their brains before they can even grow a mustache. So for me, I do not have any solace when you say to me it's ok to leave the kids' table, because when I did, I found myself relating to people less and less
I was always scared of growing up but I now realise that things change and childhood is such a tiny part of your life that you cherish but shouldn't idealise. Now you can learn more about life through your own eyes and not through the words of other adults. You can decide what sits right with you and what doesn't. What you believe in and how you live, what you live for.
This track really hits the spot! The beat is so infectious, and the lyrics speak to my soul. Definitely adding this to my playlist!
thanks so much for this. i have ocd and recently i've been thinking too much about growing up. it really scares me that, some day, i won't be this version of me anymore. none of my friends will be the same. we won't be carefree kids forever. we already 'lost' so much time, and already my friends have gone to different high schools and (probably) won't want to play silly games like hide and seek anymore, or make up imaginary universes with me. i actually snuck into my primary school a few days ago, and i know i'm being melodramatic, as i'm only fifteen, but it really gave me that bittersweet nostalgia. i like to think that other people also wish it was normal to do things younger kids do and would rather pretend to be a witch on some mission to save the world or build lego than discuss whatever people their age are 'supposed' to do. i know i can't be the only person who feels stagnant and desperate to take in every little detail, because nothing lasts forever and everything changes. this video helped me ease down those mental loops i get, though. this comment got a bit long and really weird, sorry about that haha.
This was a really lovely video. I’m now in my last year of high school and have been experiencing really extreme stress and anxiety at the idea of moving on to college and being forced to grow up, and there was something reassuring about listening to you speak on this. Your tree metaphor around 21:30 is going to really stick with me. Thank you.
"maybe someone needed to hear that" yeah, i really needed to hear that. transitioning to university for the first time is so strange. moving to the other side of the country, away from your family is so weird. you feel like your losing your memories and yourself sometimes, especially when your an overly neurotic child who always felt too old to begin with - like youd already lived "too much" life to remember, and by this point you must surely be considered a grandma. and its scary to hear things like "your personality if fully developed by 18", and to never know if things are changing until your 10 years down the line. its scary until you see a video like this. and, i mean... its still scary. but isnt it wonderful to know that someone, somewhere feels the same. i grew up watching this movie as a child, and its very dear to me. thank you for your video which i think did it as much justice as can be done, without just watching it. :)
I know you've gotten a ton of these comments, but I this video, movie and overarching message is very important to me. As someone whose "missed" their golden youth years to the pandemic and chronically online dealing with that "haha you're 26 your life is over now you're almost 30" that's prevalent on Tiktok it's a freeing if not hard message to internalize. Thank you so, so much for the work ;u;
I have always had this fear of growing up, and that thought of “what if I keep acting like this child” or just a whole bunch of What if’s from myself, friends, and other peers of mine. Ever since I turned 18 I was just consumed with this fear of growing up, the responsibility of it and if I am to childish to live up to that barrier of responsibility. Especially with the pandemic tossing me into “adulthood” right as I was stepping out. I wasn’t really prepared, I was terrified of the mistakes, and just a whole can of worms of thoughts and emotions. Especially with social media making everything seem so wide yet so tight. It felt so suffocating to be a “kid” or an “adult”. Making me dread my life and living it. Your video has really genuinely struck something in me. I know now at the moment are not ready to leave the kids table, but I am prepared, or at least less afraid of it. And to know that the kid I was years ago isn’t me now, but I shouldn’t put that down completely. Videos like these and in general therapy has helped me slowly start not dreading growing up, and help me look forward to it! I hope everything goes well with you, and to everyone else.
This video oddly enough made me cry so much because this is something ive been unconsciously worrying about so often. Today with thanksgiving and my birthday coming up soon, i cant help but think that im scared of having to be like the “adults”. My twenties are around the corner and i could only think of what else i need to do in my last “teens” before anything else becomes just regular and obsolete and no longer gifted. Needed this video sm dude, thanks.
Turned 17 just a few days ago, and a few days before then, I had a breakdown. Breakdowns like these typically hit me hard because it’s usually heavy topics, triggered by something externally to which then I overthink internally and spiral. It hadn’t happened in awhile. Usually it revolves around potential failure, but this time it was more about mortality. I think the last time I even panicked about death was when I was 4 or 5 years old wondering if god is real and what comes next after death. This time it was more so about realizing that someday I have to see the people I love pass on, and that I am granted the ability to control my grief myself. It terrifies me that I’m getting older, it terrifies how fast time goes, it terrifies me that I’m not a child anymore. This video essay seemed to ease my brain, making my journey down that path a little bit easier to stomach and assume control over my feelings about it. It’s so strange though-to realize that growing up could be this horrifying and bittersweet.
Just turned 17 aswell around a month ago and I had the exact same thing happen to me
The concept of a child is a social construct, never were a child never will be, it's a worthless thing to hold into
Know that after this life there is more. Trust Jesus
this made me very emotional. hoping to get more into meaningful long-form content like this
Wow. Thank you so much for this video. Just like you I have been having a quarter life crisis since I was 13 years old. I actually started crying that year about how much I don’t want to grow up. Of course, inevitably I have, but I believe deep inside me the child still hadn’t accepted that. I have come to understand, that in order for me to grow into the person I will be, I have to accept and recognise the person I was and am. But it is so so scary, social media and society makes you feel like you are dead after 25. idk I guess it’s just nice to see I’m not the only one feeling this way ❤
this is just a gem. thank you
Fantastic Mr. Fox is actually such a masterpiece.
The film kinda pairs nicely with American Beauty with protagonists not quite ready to say goodbye to their youth and the life they previously envisaged for themselves (albeit the 'chick' chasing manifests itself a little differently in both).
AB and FMF were some of the early films that confirmed for me that I was 'into' cinema and its true power. I sense I'm in a similar place in life to you now and it's funny that these films that meant so much to me as a teenager are now resonating for reasons I didn't initially understand.
Either way, I agree that they have incredibly important message and thank you for articulating it so well
The hardest thing for me has been getting into the movies of my age. I love animated movies, so when my friends started wanting to see live-action instead, I struggled to enjoy myself.
I’ve found watching the “classics”, aka the movies people reference the most, to be helpful. Going for the best and most popular first has shown me where movies can go.
A Beautiful Mind is my current favorite.
Bro made me cry. Such a great interpretation of a fantastic movie!
I really needed this video. My number one fear growing up was and has been getting older. The heaps of responsibilities, unknown experiences to come, and loss of that “peak of life” has always overwhelmed me. Slowly I’v learned that its ok to age and not be stuck in the past.
Im not ready for this. I love you. This might sound dumb, but I’m so scared, this isn’t right. I should not be my age. It’s disgusting. I just want to lay down forever, cuddle someone and cry.
No. Grow up.
Tear shed, Wet bed, Childhood fled.
Your channel is certainly bigger than mine lol, but from one RUclipsr video-essayist to another, I love how this video presents an original thought about a beloved classic. You've earned my subscription for sure!
Aw nah dude thanks that's real kind of ya to say I'm glad you enjoyed the video :) You make some great content yourself! I admire your ability to weave comedic bits /brevity into your videos its a difficult balance. Your Feminism in Fiction video is super captivating.
I don't know why, but this is the only video essay that has gotten me this hard. I have been sitting here for about ten minutes just... thinking. Solid work my guy.
I remember opening this video months ago and not really being able to take it in. I maybe saw two or three minutes before getting up to do something else and it never really stuck with me, but I couldn't ever watch much of it. Today I finally sat down and watched it, and discovered that it was fear. Fear of being told what I've been told every single time about growing up and that I needed to do it soon, or else I wouldn't be someone in life.
I've lost the discount to the university that probably was THE university. I could walk there in like twenty minutes. There were old friends there, too. It was one of the colleges where what I wanted to study was affordable, and I got the discount for just existing, considering I was an ex student of the same school this college took a basis on. I knew the topics and it wasn't too hard. I've lost the discount because I was scared of leaving home and I did not get there for a month and a half. I faked an addiction problem-which ended up not being fake and actually a real problem I've got-in order to get another opportunity. I got it. I had to do all the assignments I was supposed to do in two months in a week. I did not even get close to finishing them all. I can't afford it without the discount, and I've flunked more than half the subjects I was doing.
And tonight there's a family gathering. And I know I'm going to be asked about college and how it's going because it's a topic that always pops up. I have a cousin that is studying the same exact thing, and he's almost about to graduate, and I always looked up on him. But I always feared to not meet that expectation, as he is very close to me. I don't know what I'm going to tell them.
There's no longer a kid's table. We're all over the age of 18 and usually we don't have a table set up like that. But at the same time, the kid's table is our table, of the younger generation of 10 individuals who have vastly different lifestyles and history. All of us are growing up and feel like they don't fit with the other 5 "up there" in the adult table. Even if there isn't a kid's table, we don't feel like we belong to the other-yet we don't need to, as our conversations have changed from toys and videogames we found amusing to work and responsibilities we need to deal with. And as the youngest, it had always felt like I was not mature enough for anything. I haven't grown at the same pace as the rest. And maybe I don't have to.
I finished the video today. It was pretty much what I feared. And yet what I wanted to hear. Maybe I need to grow up, and that is fine. I know everybody felt the fear of becoming older and having to do taxes, marry someone and get a "proper" job, and I am deeply scared of it too. But it is okay to grow. I had the opportunities I could've wished for, but if I wasn't myself ready to take them, they would've never meant something to me, and I would've not been able to utilize them correctly. Perhaps it was not the time for me to learn it yet. Maybe I wasn't ready to deal with all of this just yet. But at some point, I might need to be ready. And I know that now, having to deal with the consequences I caused, have led me to learn the importance of growing up, and it is not so bad after all. I learn more from the mistakes I've made purposefully than the achievements I've gotten accidentally, and at some point in time, I will grow with my cousins into the grown up table. A table we will all know at some point, and will look back at the one our children will share, and hopefully, guide them to not make our mistakes-and if they do, we will know how to help them.
Though my conclusion might not be the one in this video, I still want to say that I am grateful for your upload and that I hope you get recognized. It seems like it, as there are tons of views. Wonderful vid.
This is really beautiful. Thank you for making this.
I am in a weird place in my life, I am been battling the throws of depression and stress that realizing the reality of the world is far more bleaker than I thought once, even though then, I believed it to be still bleak. I do have a vision of where I want to go, but that direction is becoming more murkier with time understanding how usually those in control tend to paint the picture of what they want rather than what is actually reflective of reality, makes me feel rather trapped in who I am in this stage. I did find a sense of purpose years ago, approximately five years, thankfully because of some good people in my life at that time, but those years are gone, and at the time I knew it was going to leave, but I expected greener pastures, not being in the same house from that time, wasting away with classes that communication is hardly possible. I think in a sense I still cling onto that identity that I have once held, back when I was proud of myself, and I loved myself, but that's rotted away, but moving onto something new, its hard to really pinpoint what that could be
your delivery on that closing line, right into the ''stay with me' remix was was something words can't even describe. what a great essay
Your video’s amazing and everyone is talking about it but the choice of “Stay With Me” for the background music was absolutely brilliant and had me smiling from ear to ear. 11/10 :D
Every year I go through an unsatisfying search for thanksgiving movies always coming back to this one, thanks for making this vid
fantastic mr fox is literally my FAVORITE thanksgiving movie… and one of my favorite movies of all time. I used it as a cultural object for a psychoanalytic criticism class, and that taught me so much about it from a Freudian instinct vs civilization perspective.
I’d never thought about it quite in this angle you’re discussing here, so I’m thrilled by this video. There is always so much to take from this film. To your point about what Mr. Fox has to realize about himself and his life, I think him choosing to leave his tail is a great example. He sees that some hills are not worth dying on- some things he needs to move on from because his desire for them is based only in ego and will not benefit him, or others, or their growth.
Great video. Great analysis. Hard work. I very much appreciate your work. “Comme se, comme ca” made me double take. Wanted to make sure that you didn’t think it was “come see, come saw”
The note about the pandemic was really impactful for me. I never considered just how much it took from my youth until after it had passed. I barely remember those years now because I was so deep in the throes of depression during them, and only after recovering do I realize how much it impacted me. Thank you for making this. It makes me less afraid of growing up and losing something, because really, you're not losing anything, but evolving into something new.
Unsubscribing, you really called die hard a Christmas movie, smh not my streamer.
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Die hard is absolutely a Christmas movie, and such slander shan't be tolerated./hj
L + Ratio I cannot tell a lie, and Die Hard is such a Christmas movie... I don't personally watch it at Christmas, but I respect it 😅
@@NapoleonVIINap blocked + DNI tbh
Noticed the tasteful addition of "stay with me (slowed)" in the background.
This video is amazing dude please keep making stuff you are truly passionate about because the effort and care really does show
I want to say I love this video so much. The whole video was so interesting and introspective and chill. I can't wait to see more from your work :)
Yeah, ever since my senior year of college I’ve been in denial about my situation. It’s been two years. The lockdown was just ending. Anyway, I imagined my life would be so different right now than it is. I blame that lost time for my current situation, for my dissatisfaction with my career for the my friendships I lost. But the losses of the past don't have to stop me from building new relationships and enjoying the progress I am making today. Comparison is the thief of joy, and I think that applies when comparing your own life to how it, “could have been,” except in so far as to take a lesson from personal mistakes, but in this case, there wasn’t a mistake. There was just tragedy. I ought to let that go and try take my life on its own terms.
wow I've never actually read his column, I don't even know what to do after reading that, I feel like it adds so much insight to his character. great video
Takako Mamiya in the background caught me off guard. Love Trip is one of my favorite bedtime comfort albums. Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of my favorite bedtime comfort movies. Tonight, I put on this video to fall asleep to. What a strange and pleasant surprise.
I never had the "Kids' Table" thing with Thanksgiving because it was just the family of five and no one else, but that title is so enticing to me metaphorically, as I still mentally feel like a child even though I'm 22. Anyway, great video.
this is a brilliant video essay, i almost cried and i dont even celebrate thanksgiving. thank you❤
Good news, Friend! The algorithm pushed this content onto my homescreen and I'm very happy it did. Well made and well met!
Bro, this is one of the most well crafted and articulated videos on this platform.
Thanks for making the most cozy video I have ever watched in my life. I can't explain how safe and comfortable I felt and continue to feel watching this, so thanks dude.
my grandpa Alle i asked why he was so childlike and goofy with me, he said he was still a kid at heart and how you never grow up you just get older.
RIP Alle berg 2008
14:16 "To own harm is the first step in a series of steps [...] you may be looking down the barrel of a lot of unpleasant things you have to do, like having to do work, like having to change things or having to accept consequences."
15:30 Real self-forgiveness does not involve rationalization, justification or minimization, but you need to face what you have done and face the consequences.
I was waiting for something like this, one of my favourite movies but never celebrated thanks giving (in another country). this video encpulates some thoughts I had on the movie, I need to watch it again. thanks
I watched this movie again recently probably been a few years since grade school. This movie makes me relive my past, especially these past few years. I’ve always been a thief and a liar my whole life. I’ve always been smart and witty to get outta any situation even when I damn well shouldn’t. I made so many promises and tried to be someone I wasn’t. It’s hard to be an adult it’s harder to be a human being. But it’s only an inch of effort to be the best human you can be. Making mistakes is part of being human but learning from them and evolving to be better is the challenge. Listen to yourself and your lovers. just try to really be better everyday.
this was genuinely such a beautiful video. im currently at a cross road in my life where things around me are changing and im also changing aswell. i just need to adapt and this video has made me more accepting of change. thank you
Wow this… this is something that I think so many people needed to hear. Thank you for saying this, with wit and charm in an honest and genuine manner. I think that many of us can relate to Mr. Fox, who is stuck in the past, a happier more fulfilling period of ones life, as well as Ash, who is searching for his own sense of self. Time moves on, changes all things and there’s something beautiful about embracing it. And its terrifying as well. The seasons will change and so will we, and that’s ok. It’s ok to move on and still look back at your youth with fondness.
Incredible video that hits me at just the right time with just the right note. Thank you.
Thank you for this. Like many others in the comment section, I too have come to the realization of needing to grow up. Just turned 24 last week and with my seasonal depression coming early this year, a video like this is exactly what I needed.
As someone who has only recently stood up from the kids table, mentally anyway (have just started my transition process), this little opinion piece is super comforting in it's reaffirmations that I have not been left behind, and never will be.
"you can't grow by cutting off your roots; that doesn't mean you don't trim some limbs off a tree sometimes" beautiful and perfectly articulated
fantastic mr fox is my favorite movie ever. thx 4 creating thsi wonderful video
This is my all time favorite movie.
I watch this movie more than Boggis eats chickens yearly.
The adult jokes in this are timeless and so is the performance of the cast.
I've made sure to recommend this to all of my friends and family and they all have a copy.
Timeless classic and possibly Wes' best work.
The best type of videos, at least for me, is when i can listen to the words as a flow. Almost like a song. Instead of listening to the lyrics I hear the music. Its comforting. Thanks :>
Hey Random internet stranger. You're video made me cry. Thanks bro. Been going through a lot and processing death of people and the death of dreams. Trying to accept this new stage of unknown that I find myself in. I'm 30 in a career run by 18 year olds and feel increasingly irrelevant. You've unlocked more for me to process. So really, thanks bro.
The quality of this video is insane, love your voice and love the music in the background. Keep doing what you're doing. Definitely earned my subscription.
Thank you, algorithm gods, for showing me this video! The production quality was awesome and what you had to say resonated with me so much. I hope you make more videos like this in the future!
I hadn't watched this movie until i had left the kids table. Very beautiful video man!