This was a really interesting, yet challenging film to tackle, and I realize the concept of making meaningful choices might still seem a bit abstract even after watching this. I was therefore hoping to gather more practical examples of making meaningful choices right here by asking all of you; what was a meaningful choice that you have made? So, if you're willing to share, I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences in the comments below!
I think what makes a choice meaningful is embracing its vulnerability. Not making your decision based on its potential success or failure, but on a willingness to risk it even if it doesn't go the way you want it to. Examples for me where moments where I completely stepped out of my comfort zone, "lived the most" instead of the "best" (following Camus' advice). For me these choices have all added great value. Be it from attending the university that I thought was too challenging, to travelling to new places, and even to cut ties with people that used to be friends but have simply drifted apart or were behaving in a toxic manner. Also, thank you for consistently discussing all my favorite films and reading some of my favorite books and philosophers to do so! It is always a pleasure to watch your videos.
For me it's not so much about what choices I make that are meaningful in itself but to know that in every choice I make there is another that I don't make. And the meaning is attached in the faith of making a choice over all the others that I don't make that necessarily leads me into uncertainty and I comport myself into this abyss which can only happen on faith alone.
My most meaningful choice was one that never really was one. When I left a dying woman that was the greatest love of my life it tore me apart as basically everything I've lived for died, while at the same time everything that I cold be was born again. It was insanely traumatizing, while at the same time my greatest liberation. When I met her, I knew that she was everything I ever wanted, that I wanted to stay with her until she would be gone from this world. And at the same time I began to realize that this desire was hurting her, because she was ready to leave and my love and life threatened that peace. I was what she wanted so much and at the same time the thing she could not have. She wanted me to leave, to not miss my chance for children and normality. So while we were together I could watch how the choice of us apart slowly became reality. I chose it and yet somehow I didn't, as I watched how it happened the only way it was supposed to happen. And then, in me I found everything that I saw in her, reborn from the void that I became the moment I left... I still carry her in me, now that I found the woman that she dreamt I would meet. See her reflection in every ray of sun in this world. Choices have a different... perspective for me, ever since...
I changed my career from something I thought was meaningful to a career that would help my family's lives be more secure thus giving them more opportunities to live a meaningful life. And that gave my life meaning. I'm quite happy with my career progression because I have a sense of purpose.
My most meaningful choice ironically enough, is one I haven't made yet... I dated this girl for a year and a half, and I know it may not seem like nothing in the great scheme of things, but it was the first time I ever fell in love, and boy did I fall... More than her in the end... The relationship got to be too much for her, and she couldn't handle it anymore so we broke it off... It kind of threw a wrench into my life, because without having made any concrete plans, and trying my damnest to take it slow, I was sort of already picturing us together, years down the line, with a little house, some dogs, some cats, possibly a goat like we loved to talk and joke about, or maybe none of that, but at least together and happy... Except now I've got none of that left. To say my whole world came crashing dow would be a bit of a dramatic exageration, but the future I had pictured and desired so deeply with her, did. And when I look at my life now, where I'm at, what I'm doing, what my options are, I'm more and more tempted each day to just Up and Go. Take the transiberian until Vladivostok, take a plane from there to Canada and see what happens. But that's my heart. My irrational, irresponsible, torn to pieces heart. My mind is telling me what about my grand parents, my whole world, who gave me so much of themselves, and who, despite their current great shape, have the looming shadow of inescapable fate hanging over heir heads like a damocles sword, ready to fall sooner rather than later ? What about my degree, that I'm so so lucky to have access to for next to no money when so many other student fight their way through crushing debts to get to where I am ? What about my friends and family whom I love so dearly ? My home that I love so much inspite of all its flaws ? What would I even do on the other side of the Atlantic, alone, with an unfinished degree ? So what do I do... How do I reconcile two contradictory voices ? How do I listen to a brain worried only about concrete mateial but essential facts ? How do I listen to a heart taken with grief and sorrow, desperate to find some solace and joy again in a stifled empty life at the expense of reason and survival ? Wouldn't that just be running away from problems that would just follow me no matter where I go ? Or would be setting myself free of the emptiness that fills me more each passing day and threatens to swallow me whole ? Heart or Mind ? Heads or Tails ? Yes or No ? I don't know... All I know is that something has to give, lest I go insane.
The notion that life is a playground is profane, there are such things and right and wrong choices - those depend on your worldview, and your worldview should be informed by what you bear witness to in life. The movie is interesting and to an extend profound, but there are certain quotes and ideas presented in it that seem childish and irresponsible to me, especially if taken seriously. Its worth the watch, but if people take it too seriously they may very well end up causing more harm to themselves and the people around them, than they would if they had been none the wiser.
I made a choice to leave a relationship and move out of state. Shortly after I felt as though I had made the biggest mistake of my life and I went through a deep depression feeling as though I had lost a life I could of had. As I type this my four month old daughter is cooing in the other room and she's here all because I made a choice. I cant imagine not making the choices that led me to having her, life is funny that way.
You wrote this 1 year ago, but I look at it today. Months ago I made a similar decision to leave a relationship, and the other person soon after chose to be with someone else. As I type this comment, I feel as though I have missed out on many laughs, tears, ups and downs. She told me that the decision could be a grave mistake, and I feel it is. But I have hope that this decision, and the decisions that come after, lead to a satisfactory end. Thank you for your help, person.
I remember watching this movie in my teens and thinking this was going to take a while for me to figure out. 'Every choice is the right choice' never made sense to me, as a kid fresh out of high school I was uncertain of what to do. Years later, I finally realized what it meant and, more importantly, the central lesson: it is vital to make a choice even if it turns out to be the "wrong" one, because indecision (or inaction) is the great sin against life. "By doing nothing you become nothing." Great video again thank you.
Of course no decision is a decision but what he is saying is that if you chose nothing, you become nothingness. When a human starts moving and gets on the path of life it is better than the one who maybe was a Ferrari but never got on the road. He made a decision to do nothing. Maybe because of fear of making the wrong choices. But we will never know where we will end up. At least not now or yet. That’s what he means. Doing nothing. You basically are dead, but alive, awaiting death. …. But what Interesting is he made decisions not based on his purpose. He did not know which ones would lead him to his purpose. But he did not know his purpose. Purpose helps us make decisions. If you know your purpose, decisions become easier. Decisions become hard or you begin to regret things when you realize you made decisions based on reasons besides your purpose. ….
By doing nothing, you give over control of your life to someone else. As the saying goes, "If you don't tell the world who you are, the world will tell you who you are." And there are three types of people in the world: leaders, followers and slaves. The slaves are the ones who have no choice. On a side note, the British royal family is an interesting example of "leaders" who are actually slaves.
This absolutely brought me to tears.. as someone who has struggled with the notion of what should I do, what path is the right one.. especially right now, struggling with college and the ultimate reality that I will have to drop out at the end of this semester because of financial reasons.. despite wanting this path to be the right one, something I've wanted for myself ever since I could remember..
Anthony Smith what path you chose will always be the right one. There is no alternative once you make a decision, because it wont ever exist. Every tiny detail lead up to every next one, so you wont ever be wrong unless you try and look back on the past and analyze it so make your choices as if your future self is already there, looking back and asking current you why.
@@danielstill5625 man I wish. I started a go fund me once when I couldn't pay rent and was about to be homeless, couldn't even get any of my friends to donate even 10$. As a result, spent about 3 years in a shelter.
@@BadassRaiden If I may offer some words of encouragement from one of my favorite philosophers, Alan Watts "You can't live at all unless you live fully now" Just focus on what has to be done today and then tomorrow focus on what has to be done on that day and so on and so forth. If you become anxious about the future you will create a vicious circle and it will only hold you back from making any decision at all. Be like clouds and water because there is no such thing as a badly shaped cloud or badly formed wave. Like clouds and water they do what they are suppose to and you as well are a part of nature. No matter what you do you cant make a bad decision unless you keep thinking you do and if you decide to live your life thinking you make bad decisions then that is up to you
This movie had a PROFOUND effect on me... i remember seeing it years ago, because I've always loved Jared Leto and deliberate choices to pursue more evocative, abstract and thought-provoking roles. I knew i couldn't articulate it or even fully understand it at the time, but it touched me on such a deep and poignant level, and left me feeling so much and thinking so far out of the box and removed from my everyday reality... i wanted to go outside and just run barefoot through a forest, or jump high into the air and break outside of the parameters of my own body. It was liberating and incredibly depressing at the same time. I'm still trying to make sense of it all... truly an extraordinary film.
Thank you for this comment! It's beautifully written and definitely makes me want to watch the movie!! I'm happy you had that experience, as formidable as it was💖💖 Hope things are going well!!
One of my favorite things is the details of the movie. look at the colors; one main timeline is yellow; yellow stands for the bright and bold, in this life he lives a bold high end life. One is blue, stands for emotion; this timeline he struggles with his and his wife’s emotions. The final main route is red, standing for love. In this timeline he’s in love and that’s his main motivation. Often the times the colors mix in scenes and it eludes to something changing or some major choice.
@Zombies In Pjs some of the littlest things have such a big meaning. Another one of my favorite movies is secret life of Walter Mitty. I’m that movie, anytime there is red, it’s about to have an adventure.
"... and this is all I've been waiting for, all this time: renouncing all possible lives for one only, with you." Wow... I think this will be my love declaration So strong
This is my favorite movie since the day I first saw and was amazed by it. It taught my teenage self a lot about what is important in life and what small little choices can do to someones whole life. -So I would like to say: If all tiny choices matter, like saying Anna's friends are stupid or being honest about not being able to swim. And your life will drastically change after this 3 seconds, then at the same time no choice matters. If every little thing can change your life, from ordering a coffee or getting a yogurt in the store to the left then don't stress about it too much and follow your heart(feeling). Which in any case is usually the right choice. When you feel right about doing something, that is the right thing to do. Your life will shape itself around it and I hope you will encounter beautiful people to share the happiest smiles with. Look life right in the eye, smile and embrace it. Live free and share happiness. - Awesome that you covered this movie. I like your content a lot, very relaxing and mind opening.
@Millinial Picasso sorry dusky see this.... depression hit hard and i saw this on netflix.... and it made me see life a bit different after a fail attempt.... so watch the movie if you haven't its good
@Millinial Picasso i feel you. But it just help me see things in a different light. The choices and the decisions we make create the reality we see and live in... and idk like i said it just open my eyes up. And I've been good since then
I stayed up w friends to watch this movie and oh my god how underrated it is. The philosophy and the meaning behind this is so incredible and it’s just a masterpiece.
I'm so grateful that you chose to review this movie. I was one of the people that requested it and it was probably the one movie I most wanted you to cover. This film holds such special meaning to me in ways that I can't easily explain. Especially as a person who is very much into Theoretical Physics and has adopted 4-Dimensionalism or the Many Worlds Theory of Space-Time as a "worldview," as well as being an Existentialist too. It just touched me so much to see someone crack this masterpiece, which by all accounts is no easy task. You made every other review of this film I have ever watched make it seem like they were done by grade schoolers and written in crayons. I mean... you just destroyed anything else out there that I have ever watched about this film, the way you view things is just unparalleled. I can't imagine how much work went into what you have created, when most people can't even grasp this film on even a basic level. The skills you possess make you a god amongst men, and if I knew enough intellectuals I would pass this along to everyone I knew; unfortunately I do not, so my own gratitude alone will have to do for now. I especially loved how you touched upon the timeline in which Nemo surrendered making any decisions at all, which definitely seemed to be the one that we saw where he was the most unhappy. Our choices define us and the make us who we are; for good and for bad. My choices haven't always made me happy, but I don't really ever regret the choices I have made, which were based on the data I had available to me at that time. I have tried to make my choices out of love, even if the depth of my love was unreciprocated to the degree in which I freely gave it. I have scars, lots of them, but they all took me from one place to a new place. And while some of those moments seemed so perfect at the time, we unfortunately cannot live in them forever. Time is a construct we cannot escape as 3-dimensional beings and it is forever fleeting. To quote my favorite songwriter: "I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself to hold on to these moments as they pass." I am at least fortunate to know now when I am living in those most special of moments, and to squeeze every bit of happiness out of them as I can. But as the years pass those moments seem to happen much less frequently and I long for my youth. I long for the times when every decision, even small, could have taken me anywhere. With age comes extra responsibility and ties to things that we cannot just get up and leave from. The best moments of my life were the times when riding out the timeline of a decision was wide open and endless. I think that is what this film actually captures best. As well as the certain moments we long to revisit and relive for the rest of our time here on Earth. I know which moments are the ones that I could live in forever if given the possibility and many, if not most of them are tied to my youth. Much like as is the case for young Nemo who seems to often lose his sense of meaning in his timelines somewhere between youth and adulthood, never seeming to be quite complete as the years drag on. Except maybe for his times with Anna, which seemingly was his one true love, as well as the relationship where the depths of his love were reciprocated equally. Which we should all be so lucky to find in this life and is something that I don't think even happens to every human even once in a lifetime. Such a gift and the experiences it brings are unparalleled in our journey. I think that you caught and captured all of that quite nicely, and in a way that possibly no one else can. Thanks for sharing my friend. Gifts like yours are ones that bring people together and make this planet feel like a community once more, which is something we keep losing more and more of as technology causes us to inevitably drift further and further away from what was, and is what I believe to be our true natural state. Thank you sir, for making this planet feel small again. If only for brief moments of inescapable time.
The choice to live. This may seem obvious to most, but those who venture deeper into the abyss know what a hard choice this can be. Thank you for your hard work on these videos. They are deeply touching and delightfully thought-provoking. Love this movie
I am terrified of the possibility that the answer might be different for each of us. It might be no. If that is the case, and honesty within our lonely hearts would say it is, those of us barely surviving are just cowardly inflicting pain on ourselves. But, a corpse can be and actually is more painful for close ones. Luckily, depression, misanthropy and anhedonia will graciously strip you of those with enough time.
@@sk3ptik0s49 If we each indeed have free will within this somewhat constrained environment, then certainly the answer will be different for every individual. I agree with Hume in his essay on Suicide, that it is the human right of every person to choose whether they continue their life or not. But I do not condone the act of suicide, because the emotions of loneliness and despair are temporal experiences, no matter how long they appear to endure. To feel your life purposeless and to judge it meaningless can only occur in a deep state of suffering. Because we live in a body we will desire certain things, and when we desire we will suffer for it, and the disappointed expectations around it. But this does not mean that we should suppress our desires so we may avoid suffering, as suffering is the only state in which true personal growth of character can occur. Our development stops the moment our suffering stops. It is somehow encouraging to meet others who can graciously admit to the loneliness they feel in their hearts. This very thing somehow helps us feel less alone. As they say, misery loves company :)
@@immadiel1661 I have read that piece by Hume and most of what Camus wrote ("El hombre rebelde" being my favourite). To me, the best argument for the impossibility of "free" will was put forth by Schopenhauer. Do you know of someone that argued succesfully for a free will, or can you defend that idea yourself? I think that when you aprehend fully the law of cause and effect you see that nothing that happens could have happened in any other way. And yet, outside of this cold rationalism I have personally documented instances where the past (and therefore the present) have changed. They call this "The Mandela Effect". I couldn't advance much investigating the phenomenon but I proved that at least one of the changes has residual evidence in websites and memories of unrelated persons.
@@sk3ptik0s49 I am a humble couch philosopher at best, so I doubt I could make an effective case for free will. But if everything is already predetermined by a cause over which our choices have absolutely no effect, then no person can be held responsible for their own thoughts, words or deeds. Then no one should be punished for doing bad things, and no one should be rewarded for doing good. Without at least some level of free will, no one ever would, or even could, accept personal responsibility for anything. I remember reading a good attempt to reconcile free will and determinism in a chapter of a book called The Limits of Evolution by a California Professor called George Holmes Howison. His philosophy was a Personalism, so whether you will find that helpful will depend on whether you fall closer to the Idealist or Materialist spectrum of philosophy. I have no personal experience of the Mandela Effect, and have found none of the proof for it too convincing, though I cannot deny the possibility of its reality. It would be a great example of a consciousness of a kind (whether individual or collective) affecting a cause, if my reasoning is sound.
@@immadiel1661 Or perhaps is just time travel, as "pop culture" would propose, haha. I added this wild experience as it is relevant to the video and somewhat to the discussion, but understandbly unless someone has experienced it him/herself the healthiest response is to dismiss such lunacy, which is exactly what I would have done without being a direct witness. It seems this Howinson fella is quite old, and wrestles still with a very strong Christian presence. We are free of that influence now, free to embrace scientific nihilism... lol
It's really a fallacy. It could only have been true if the time, the entropy didn't exist. But since they do so do possibilities change with the flow of time.
What do you think if we add "So long as you don't make a choice all possibilities remain possible... and all realities but the current remain unreachable" ?
For more on this sort of philosophy, I'd recommend reading Soren Kierkegaard, whose philosophy talks about how the infinite possibilities available to humans can fill us with existential dread. He essentially says that because there is no outside authority (such as God, which is taken on faith, not evidence) that can assure us of the 100% correct choice, we must take a leap of faith and choose something, anything, even though we may regret the infinite other roads not traveled. The only other option is "fear and trembling." Paralysis of the spirit. Great video as always LSOO!
"Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards." - Kierkegaard I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who has connected his ideas to this film. You're on it my friend
However, Kierkegaard was a devout Christian, meaning that he believed God still dictated outcomes. The video is correct, every choice outcome has equal significance, but not every choice has equal happiness. Some choices ultimately end in woe and misery.
This is a very thorough analysis. I love the movie, but never thought of it this way. It makes a lot of sense. In the end, it is not about living a perfect life, all that matters is just living a life without regrets.
13:27 - This is all whe world should see on every screen once every week. Especially in today's times in a world full of ego and hatred. I'm a cold hearted guy, I lack empathy and emotional sensibility but that monologue brings tears to my eyes and moves me deeply like nothing else does.
I first watched this movie right after breaking up with my first girlfriend at 16. It struck me like lightning. I was sure I did the right thing, but I didn't see the the weight of my actions before (as well as I had spent months before coming to make the choice because it was so hard). I've always had an issue making choices, ever since I was a child, so this movie fitted me like glove. It's the one of the three movies I've ever rewatched, and last time I watched it I cried. And again I cried right as I listened to your video about it.
This was super encouraging honestly, I just made a huge choice to move abroad and teach English but I haven't been so sure that I've made the right call. There's a freedom in knowing that sometimes the best thing to do is to make a decision. Love your channel!
Brighten Black I haven't seen this movie before but now I have to. That you regard this movie as highly as you do makes me wonder which other films you like and recommend.
@@keithfrancis6444 You would get a very mixed bag from me. I watch a lot of films in many genres. Like, Scott Pilgrim, Into the Wild, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, The Thing, Dark Knight all top the list, too, if you're truly wondering
This was really deep n thought provoking. I feel one of the best by 'Like stories of the old'. Thanks dude. I m awed by your understanding, knowledge n intelligence. Love from India
In the end, there is no right, no better choice. Because if you choose one, you will always regret not to choose others, no matter what your choice is. The important thing is that you should stop being regretful and do your best to make that choice a meaningful one. Thanks for the message !
I have fallen in love with an amazing girl while traveling and the short time we have spent together have been filled with moments of genuine happiness. As it comes time for me to move on I am confronted with a difficult decision. When I saw you uploaded this video I immediately smiled because the concept directly applies to my current situation. I still don't know what I am going to do, but you have reassured me, no matter what path I take it will be the right one.
This really highlights the phrase “Follow your heart”. Don’t worry about what could be just make choices and embrace the results. We must all FOLLOW OUR HEARTS. If you don’t know how then get in touch with yourself. Really sit down with yourself and be authentic. What do you want? There could be infinite universes with infinite outcomes but what matters is this..right here and right now. Look within and take action. True Happiness is vital.
I OFTEN come to your page when I need insight, support, entertainment or simply needing to hear a peaceful voice. This being the video I come to the most. Thank you for all the help you've given me.
this movie is so much ignored or overlooked that even very big YT critics have either not seen it or talked about it, thanks for a wonderful video. Loved ur explanation as much as this movie
i have not seen the movie although you brought me to tears going down the memory lane on choices i made in the past looking for meaning and purpose . I appreciate you for the way you tell the stories and it touches the deepest parts in our beings where you feel vulnerable and it feels like time sits still and in that moment there's an opening and a new experience that elevates all your previous thoughts . I love it thank you
This could just be the best video essay I have ever seen. I didn't know Mr. Nobody video essay could be that emotional and contain so much beauty. Every video of yours that I watch, I fall more in love with you. Thank you for giving me these moments.
I've been unemployed for a long time now and been trying hard to pay off debts, and the more that time passes, the more I get confused with my thoughts - if I've made the right decisions all along - if I'm truly happy, or if, in time, I would even be. This video happened to pop up on my recommendations. Watching this video made me assess my life again. I have to remember that all my choices are right, and it is only up to me on how much I would value it.
You shouldn’t justify wrongdoings by philosophy. If you have a debt, you owe someone money. It’s not fair of you not to pay and justify that by the philosophy of “I’m making the right choice”.
@@HummusPvm Depending on the nature of his debt, it might be that he had his credit revoked because of divorce etc. and now have much worse lending terms than when he signed up?? In that case, it is not morally deplorable to default and cut a better deal with the bank. However his comment is not about defaulting, but what lead up to his indebted situation he is pondering about and that getting that loan was the right choice at the time, instead of spending time on regrets.
I relate to Nemo. I’ve always had a problem with making any kind of decision. I’ve only recently gotten better but my apathy has gotten worse. I don’t dread my mistakes but I do enjoy the ones that bring happiness. When things are taken away from me I try not to beat me self up about it but I still know how it makes me feel. His quote “anything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning” really gets to me. I just hope that I’m making the best decisions and that I’m living in my best timeline.
This video is so graceful, it has moved me in a way nothing else have ever done . I’ve searched for meaning my whole life but finally I understand that the meaning comes inward it’s something we create is not given by any external factors in our life, family or relatives. I just wanted to say thank you very much for uploading this magnificent video. Looking forward to watching that movie.
Most meaningful choice I face is trying not to watch your new videos before I see the movie. (for real though, have you considered giving a heads up as to which film you plan on doing next?) Love all of these, they have honestly really helped me put clearer words to the thoughts in my head, thanks.
To refuse to make a choice is to make a choice. We cannot not choose. Refusing to choose does not break reality but simply creates another timeline. That is if all choices are equal to the fabric of reality. When I was younger and my first wife and I would try to figure out what our next move should be, we relied mostly upon what’s known as, “The Ben Franklin Close.” You know this one, don’t you? You list the pros on one side of a line and the cons on another and go with the one that outweighs the other. The trouble is, many times we made the choice that was most logical, but not the one we felt most drawn to. Then, how’s that choice unfolded in time, it often, more often than not, didn’t turn out as well as we expected. This left us feeling like it was the wrong choice. I believe our error was in not giving extra weight to the choice we felt better about because feelings generated by the subconscious take into account factors your logical brain hasn’t figured out, hasn’t even recognized. “Go with your heart,” is usually the best decision. That is provided it is not the one that is going to hurt the greatest number of people.
You got me with tears right now. I appriciate so much what you have done today you made me remember so many things that I have forgotten. You get a new subscriber here! Thank you so much. (From the Dominican R.)
I was almost crying at the end of the video. Really great work! In my eyes this isn't an essay anymore. Through your skills, this has become an emotional, philosophical conversation that's happening between you and the movie.
This movie This freakin movie... I found it here on RUclips, before I was old enough to understand it, but it has been the most emotionally significant movie I've ever seen. ...this freakin movie
It's like they say, some times you have to choose from the heart and not from the mind, especially the difficult ones... listen to your inner spirit and instinct. Nice video ! 😉
You absolutely knocked this out of the park. I’m amazed. Wow. No wonder this is still my #1 favorite movie. You actually gave me a new perspective on it, too.
Great film. Always loved Mr Nobody. A meaningful choice that I hade to make at one point in life was to chose between moving to a new country(better supposedly) all alone ... or .... stay home surrounded by friends and family (in an not so great environment, with limited possibilities )
you should've tried going here in the Philippines. LOL. youtubers always say its a surprisingly good choice. i don't know. i lived here all my life and love everything so much.
You are by far the best thing I have heard in years… thank you… thank you for helping me in a time when I need help… priceless… beautiful… blessed be… peace…
Since I've seen your video about the archetypes, you became quickly my favorite channel. I´m really grateful to find you and know your amazing content. Thank you.
Y'know, I've give a watched this movie several times and never figured out what I liked about it. You're the first person to give a reasonable answer! Also, good timing; I'm having one of those tough choices right now.
I only saw this film once (years ago) and had very mixed feelings about it; I felt frustrated by it. This video definitely provided some insightful wisdom. I understood it was about alternate timelines and had an emphasis on the nature and importance of choices (making choices or lack thereof) but while watching Mr. Nobody I was constantly trying to figure out or determine which timeline (which choices) were better (or the best). I think I realize now the point was about how each path had good things and bad things, there was not only just one "meaningful" or "correct" or "optimal" path. Each path was worthwhile, each different path had value and meaning despite the different outcomes and experiences. In my own life I love the idea of "Holding life with an open hand" Which is to say we shouldn't constantly second-guess everything we do, condemn our circumstances, or regret our decisions. Life is mysterious and unknowable, therefore we should aim to embrace the experiences of life instead of constantly overthinking everything, stressing over circumstances, or regretting our decisions all the time. Hold life with an open hand.
This is why I subscribed to your channel. Your essays contain extremely powerful hammers of insights that break our opaque limiting understanding glass walls that we call paradigms. By this act alone, it opens our eyes and understanding to the world and has us realize that the world is a mixture of a sunshine and rainbow land filled with erupting volcanoes and poisonous predators. How we choose to approach this intimidating wonderland is entirely up to us. We have the tools and the willpower to explore and thrive in this land. That we have all the tools in our arsenal, but we keep forgetting that we do have them because stagnation, misinformation, miscommunication and paralyzing fear of action blinds us to them. By sharing your viewpoints, it helps us understand the importance of our lives and how we choose to approach this world. Like you said beforehand, the power lies within us to choose, which is the most powerful tool of all. Thank you.
This instantly became my favorite movie when I first saw it as a kid. It still holds a special place in my heart and will continue to for the rest of my life. Thanks for talking about this criminally underrated masterpiece.
This movie made me smell the smells of being with my high school sweet heart , the perfume she wore .. the smell of food when I first snuck in her house , the first time we were skin2skin , the rush of constantly looking out the window for a particular car , the pride of knowing you’re in love and so is she .. and , we’re still together but struggling , but still strong .. the adult life is a kick in the balls and this movie made it a bit easier to cope with !
This is just a masterpiece... This movie came at me in the moment where I decided to stop chasing a dream where I already failed, where I can't feeling the same thing regarding it. I was lost, feeling that the fact I failed on this dream meaning that I would failed in life and had nothing else to pursue... 3/4 years later here I'm, with a lot of other dreams and knowing that the life is UNBELIEVABLE vast of possibilities. Nothing defines you... Thank you a lot for the message spread throught this movie, I don't know if the people envolved into it knows how much they impact people lifes, but I trully hope they can feel it in someway, just thank you.
A sci-fi film only sci-fi fans even know exist. Great work, and I really really really hope you do a video on the Eastrail 177 trilogy, or at least just Unbreakable, someday.
Our choices absolutely matter. My Aunt gave me a piece of advice which has never failed me in life -- Happiness is a direct result of making good choices/decisions every moment.
Verla 2 veces seguidas para entender bien, verla cada año para recordar algo muy lógico: "TOMAR DISTINTAS DECISIONES EN ESTA VIDA TE LLEVARÁ POR CAMINOS DIFERENTES" La pregunta es si estoy tomando la decisión correcta, pero cómo saber si es la correcta. Por eso cuesta mucho tomar decisiones cuando uno piensa demasiado en el futuro de cada una de las opciones. Es por ello que talvez podría tomar caminos distintos al que la vida me ofrece, no ir con papá ni con mamá, solo seguir esa hoja seca que el azar lo lleva por algún lugar y probablemente encontrarme con Anna, la felicidad.
As a guy intrigued in philosophy, here's my key takeaways of the movie: The reason the 118 year old Nemo was happy at the very end of the movie is because everything up until that point, he has known the future(s) (due to the angels missing him out), and thus, life has become plain and boring. We see him reaching many bad outcomes due to him 'manifacturing' his own life. This is a teaching of going with the flow as opposed to forcing. The backwards timeline (the big crunch) at end of the movie is where anything could happen-he doesn't know. Here he says "This is the greatest day of my life." As the backwards timeline is reflecting what reality is really like for us, the movie is trying to show us that life is "like a playground", and it would be boring if you knew everything that did happen... As for the final Anna scene (where the leaf blows to the circle), when we detatch from the idea of choices (denoted by the boy running away from the train tracks) and instead meet the ultimate truth of the present moment (i.e. the present is all there is), then we will meet our destiny :) Masterpiece of a film. I'll certainly be rewatching.
This is no lie. i've spent the last 15 years or so on this platform. i've watched sooo many videos on here. and this one is the best i have seen, fr. It means a lot. thank you for creating this.
To anyone who is reading this right now - know that life is a gift even when it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel... dare to make a decision and dare to live the way you want and to love even when it hurts. This movie will always keep a special place in my heart and I will try to remind myself whenever I feel like I lost track of myself and to live by these words. Know that you have something to give and that there is someone out there who will love you like you wish to be loved... don't hesitate! You are not alone!
This is one of my favourite movies of all time. And you truly did it justice. Ps. This is the only channel which has ad content that is as good as the actual content hahaha when you started the intro to Mubi at the end of the episode, you had me man. Thanks for taking the time to tie it into the greater theme of the episode. Taking you up on that free trial.
The most meaningful choice I have made is to have children. Each and every one of them was a conscious choice. A choice which is at the very center of my being “life”. Bringing children into this world is not about “us” as parents or the quality of life we can provide for the children. Children will make their own choices. Creating life is about giving and letting go a part of ourselves and appreciation of the beauty of life. We must continue to choose to create life at all costs. Go ahead. Go out and make babies!!!
I have watched many of your videos. They are always thought provoking to say the least. This is the one that made me cry. And I am not one to do that often. I have had 2 months now of being at home, furloughed, because of this damn plague. Which means I have had lots of time to simply reflect on my 56 years of life. More so than normal. Through your video and this film I have come to realize I was/am in Mr. Nobody's predicament. I am realizing that, although reflection and remembrance have their place in present and future decision making ( a sort of weighted organic Recursive Neural Network ), when you begin to stay in Recursive mode you begin to get lost in the "Neural Tree". A sort of cognitive feedback loop happens where you either A: get trapped in a Regrets Loop and/or B: get trapped in "Analysis Paralysis". I believe I am in both. I probably have intuited this. But your video has now made that abundantly explicit and for that I thank you. Life is like a 'Choose Your Own Adventure Book". However, unlike the finite amount of choices one can make at the end of each chapter to see how you are to proceed to the next chapter, in the real life there are infinite choices which eventually leads to infinite conclusions to each chapter of the human story...our personal human story. But still, in the end, there is a single conclusion to our story just like the more limited "Choose Your Own Adventure Book". The trick to either one is we must choose a path and then...turn the page. The difference is....you can always go back and make all the other choices the book had available to see all the permutation the story would take. You can't in real life. And if you try, then, you begin to not live a real life.
Thank you for this video. I've been questioning a recent decision I made starting a new job, and many other things past and present. When he says that every decision is the right decision and that life is a playground, that put a smile to my face. Thank you.
Love all the thoughts Love the voice in and out spoken never over, kudos! ! wrote this in response to timestamp 1532. Staying on par takes mastering the basics. A par a day in some way keeps the focus on play out the box off the t playing the fair way instead of the rough. Avoid the hazards in the approach, keep same attitude when stuck in the trap. 24 hours with sleep 18 hours to score par. Every hour consider each an opportunity to make par without worrying , no reason when you love the game you play .
I have been waiting for you to make a new video, Ive watched all of your videos and it had motivated me in alot of aspects of my life. Keep up the great work and inspirational and intelligent, mind-opening videos.
I absolutely love your analysis! I'm a great fan of the film, understood it well and it made me think. But your comprehensive take on the themes the film explores takes it to yet another level of appreciation. Very inspiring, beautifully done!
Wowww! I have been dreaming about this. The concept of the universe, time, space dimension, future, past, reincarnation, In this cycle of samarsa where every choice we made is relative. It feels like there is some unseen force guiding me here🙏🏻 im that nobody who can never decide things because to me there is no good or bad and the extreme of itself is its polar opposite. Thank you. Now im convinced that the path im walking is the right one even if i'll be walking in the abyss for eternity and a curse that follows in the shadow. Someday i will be whole and complete
everope then wake up and change your life. I don’t know you but you are better than that negativity. We have all been down and out but you must find a way to be optimistic and push back against the depravity pulling you down. You are a champion and I wish you powerful luck
Maybe they where the love of your life, and you didn't find out their homicidal tendencies when you used the butter knife for jam. Maybe you would be offered the best job in the world when in the final year of that course, but the debt made you suicidal. You cannot know you have made mistakes with the decisions you have made. Hard choices are not hard, they are the result of the brain's fear of missing out on what could have been.
The meaningful choice is a fallacy. We never know the repercussions of our choices, ultimately. The only satisfying conclusion, therefore, is that we cannot make a mistake.
@@Godspeednihilo Every well-intentioned action (choice) produces unpredictable consequences, some positive, some negative. Likewise, every ill-intentioned action (choice) produces unpredictable consequences, some negative, some positive. Therefore, the so-called, meaningful choice, which produces exclusively positive results, is a fallacy. Or you might say: a delusion. Because, it ignores the yang and yin nature of reality.
@@suninmoon4601 but meaningful doesn't mean exclusively positive results. Meaningful comes with the attitude of acceptance and gratitude for one's choice and the circumstances that follows regardless if it produces positive outcomes. Which is why Nemo in the movie stated that every path and choice has just as much meaning as it is reliant on the person to derive meaning.
@@Godspeednihilo "Every path and choice has just as much meaning..." --a wise clown fish If indeed every choice has as much meaning as the next, what meaning then remains in the phrase "meaningful choice?" In order for words and concepts to have any meaning at all, one must to be able to specify what is excluded from their designation. What then is a "meaningless choice?" Our lives are chock full of such "meaningful sayings." Few of us ever take the time to think about how little they actually mean. "Meaningful comes with the attitude of acceptance..." I think that what you are referring to here is "choicelessness," which is indeed the opposite of meaningful choices--and the attitude of faith.
@@suninmoon4601 I disagree, meaningful and meaningless choices are dependent on the person making them. You mistaken that meaningful choice has an inherent value that is not reliant to the person making the choice. It is indeed that every choice has as much meaning as the next because this implies potential meaning not the actuality of meaning that will be already be given by the person deciding on the choices. Specify what is excluded from their designation? That's up to the person to discern that. A choice to spend time on your hobby is meaningful for one but meaningless to another person. Meaningful sayings? They are dependent on the person if they are touched by the saying. An emotional person may derive meaning from random sayings that speaks to them, a cynic or realist may find it meaningless. Choicelessness doesn't remove the possibility of us finding meaning. Even if we don't decide, we may give meaning to our indecisiveness or lack of freedom to choose between the dilemma. Yet we may also choose to commit and accept to what has happened, hence an attitude. I don't see choicelessness as a complete opposite to meaningful choices. Edit: typo
What a beautiful explanation of what is truly a masterpiece. I was introduced to this film by someone who just passed through my life in a very random chance episode. I think it's funny that out of all the recommendations that day THIS one was the one that I picked to watch. I definitely remembered the trailer from the past once I saw it, but It had really slipped my memory over the years. What a fantastic message.
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This was a really interesting, yet challenging film to tackle, and I realize the concept of making meaningful choices might still seem a bit abstract even after watching this. I was therefore hoping to gather more practical examples of making meaningful choices right here by asking all of you; what was a meaningful choice that you have made? So, if you're willing to share, I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences in the comments below!
I think what makes a choice meaningful is embracing its vulnerability. Not making your decision based on its potential success or failure, but on a willingness to risk it even if it doesn't go the way you want it to. Examples for me where moments where I completely stepped out of my comfort zone, "lived the most" instead of the "best" (following Camus' advice). For me these choices have all added great value. Be it from attending the university that I thought was too challenging, to travelling to new places, and even to cut ties with people that used to be friends but have simply drifted apart or were behaving in a toxic manner. Also, thank you for consistently discussing all my favorite films and reading some of my favorite books and philosophers to do so! It is always a pleasure to watch your videos.
For me it's not so much about what choices I make that are meaningful in itself but to know that in every choice I make there is another that I don't make. And the meaning is attached in the faith of making a choice over all the others that I don't make that necessarily leads me into uncertainty and I comport myself into this abyss which can only happen on faith alone.
My most meaningful choice was one that never really was one. When I left a dying woman that was the greatest love of my life it tore me apart as basically everything I've lived for died, while at the same time everything that I cold be was born again.
It was insanely traumatizing, while at the same time my greatest liberation. When I met her, I knew that she was everything I ever wanted, that I wanted to stay with her until she would be gone from this world. And at the same time I began to realize that this desire was hurting her, because she was ready to leave and my love and life threatened that peace. I was what she wanted so much and at the same time the thing she could not have. She wanted me to leave, to not miss my chance for children and normality.
So while we were together I could watch how the choice of us apart slowly became reality. I chose it and yet somehow I didn't, as I watched how it happened the only way it was supposed to happen. And then, in me I found everything that I saw in her, reborn from the void that I became the moment I left...
I still carry her in me, now that I found the woman that she dreamt I would meet. See her reflection in every ray of sun in this world. Choices have a different... perspective for me, ever since...
I changed my career from something I thought was meaningful to a career that would help my family's lives be more secure thus giving them more opportunities to live a meaningful life. And that gave my life meaning. I'm quite happy with my career progression because I have a sense of purpose.
My most meaningful choice ironically enough, is one I haven't made yet... I dated this girl for a year and a half, and I know it may not seem like nothing in the great scheme of things, but it was the first time I ever fell in love, and boy did I fall... More than her in the end... The relationship got to be too much for her, and she couldn't handle it anymore so we broke it off... It kind of threw a wrench into my life, because without having made any concrete plans, and trying my damnest to take it slow, I was sort of already picturing us together, years down the line, with a little house, some dogs, some cats, possibly a goat like we loved to talk and joke about, or maybe none of that, but at least together and happy...
Except now I've got none of that left. To say my whole world came crashing dow would be a bit of a dramatic exageration, but the future I had pictured and desired so deeply with her, did. And when I look at my life now, where I'm at, what I'm doing, what my options are, I'm more and more tempted each day to just Up and Go. Take the transiberian until Vladivostok, take a plane from there to Canada and see what happens.
But that's my heart. My irrational, irresponsible, torn to pieces heart.
My mind is telling me what about my grand parents, my whole world, who gave me so much of themselves, and who, despite their current great shape, have the looming shadow of inescapable fate hanging over heir heads like a damocles sword, ready to fall sooner rather than later ? What about my degree, that I'm so so lucky to have access to for next to no money when so many other student fight their way through crushing debts to get to where I am ? What about my friends and family whom I love so dearly ? My home that I love so much inspite of all its flaws ? What would I even do on the other side of the Atlantic, alone, with an unfinished degree ?
So what do I do... How do I reconcile two contradictory voices ? How do I listen to a brain worried only about concrete mateial but essential facts ? How do I listen to a heart taken with grief and sorrow, desperate to find some solace and joy again in a stifled empty life at the expense of reason and survival ? Wouldn't that just be running away from problems that would just follow me no matter where I go ? Or would be setting myself free of the emptiness that fills me more each passing day and threatens to swallow me whole ?
Heart or Mind ? Heads or Tails ? Yes or No ? I don't know...
All I know is that something has to give, lest I go insane.
This movie was way ahead of its time, too bad many haven't watched this yet
It's important to understand, in life.. Things don't always turn out as we planned.
I havent watched it didnt know it existed
I watched it at the time, well worth it, had a big impact on me
The notion that life is a playground is profane, there are such things and right and wrong choices - those depend on your worldview, and your worldview should be informed by what you bear witness to in life.
The movie is interesting and to an extend profound, but there are certain quotes and ideas presented in it that seem childish and irresponsible to me, especially if taken seriously.
Its worth the watch, but if people take it too seriously they may very well end up causing more harm to themselves and the people around them, than they would if they had been none the wiser.
kaine fenton in today’s time movie goer audience is saturated with super hero movies or whats marketed.
"we are searching for meaning outside of ourselves for external reasons to support these difficult decisions" I felt that
Love this quote
Me too.
Idk how to interpret this further
I made a choice to leave a relationship and move out of state. Shortly after I felt as though I had made the biggest mistake of my life and I went through a deep depression feeling as though I had lost a life I could of had. As I type this my four month old daughter is cooing in the other room and she's here all because I made a choice. I cant imagine not making the choices that led me to having her, life is funny that way.
You wrote this 1 year ago, but I look at it today. Months ago I made a similar decision to leave a relationship, and the other person soon after chose to be with someone else. As I type this comment, I feel as though I have missed out on many laughs, tears, ups and downs. She told me that the decision could be a grave mistake, and I feel it is. But I have hope that this decision, and the decisions that come after, lead to a satisfactory end. Thank you for your help, person.
You are all going to have a happy life❤
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@@zairehamletthow ya doing today man?
@@zairehamlett I'm curious to know. how are you doing now?
I remember watching this movie in my teens and thinking this was going to take a while for me to figure out. 'Every choice is the right choice' never made sense to me, as a kid fresh out of high school I was uncertain of what to do. Years later, I finally realized what it meant and, more importantly, the central lesson: it is vital to make a choice even if it turns out to be the "wrong" one, because indecision (or inaction) is the great sin against life. "By doing nothing you become nothing." Great video again thank you.
But no choice its also a choice, so it would be right to not take a choice as it is a choice, truly not choosing its imposible
Of course no decision is a decision but what he is saying is that if you chose nothing, you become nothingness. When a human starts moving and gets on the path of life it is better than the one who maybe was a Ferrari but never got on the road. He made a decision to do nothing. Maybe because of fear of making the wrong choices. But we will never know where we will end up. At least not now or yet. That’s what he means.
Doing nothing. You basically are dead, but alive, awaiting death.
…. But what Interesting is he made decisions not based on his purpose. He did not know which ones would lead him to his purpose. But he did not know his purpose. Purpose helps us make decisions.
If you know your purpose, decisions become easier. Decisions become hard or you begin to regret things when you realize you made decisions based on reasons besides your purpose.
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Life has no true win condition. For some the best option is not to play.
By doing nothing, you give over control of your life to someone else. As the saying goes, "If you don't tell the world who you are, the world will tell you who you are." And there are three types of people in the world: leaders, followers and slaves. The slaves are the ones who have no choice.
On a side note, the British royal family is an interesting example of "leaders" who are actually slaves.
I am 23 and clueless, but this is a best lesson for me. Thank you❤
This absolutely brought me to tears.. as someone who has struggled with the notion of what should I do, what path is the right one.. especially right now, struggling with college and the ultimate reality that I will have to drop out at the end of this semester because of financial reasons.. despite wanting this path to be the right one, something I've wanted for myself ever since I could remember..
Anthony Smith what path you chose will always be the right one. There is no alternative once you make a decision, because it wont ever exist. Every tiny detail lead up to every next one, so you wont ever be wrong unless you try and look back on the past and analyze it so make your choices as if your future self is already there, looking back and asking current you why.
Tell your story, start a Go Fund Me, borrow from someone if possible.. If it's meant to be, you can find a way!
@@danielstill5625 man I wish. I started a go fund me once when I couldn't pay rent and was about to be homeless, couldn't even get any of my friends to donate even 10$. As a result, spent about 3 years in a shelter.
@@BadassRaiden Damn mate that's tough to hear. Hope it all works out for you!
@@BadassRaiden If I may offer some words of encouragement from one of my favorite philosophers, Alan Watts
"You can't live at all unless you live fully now"
Just focus on what has to be done today and then tomorrow focus on what has to be done on that day and so on and so forth. If you become anxious about the future you will create a vicious circle and it will only hold you back from making any decision at all. Be like clouds and water because there is no such thing as a badly shaped cloud or badly formed wave. Like clouds and water they do what they are suppose to and you as well are a part of nature. No matter what you do you cant make a bad decision unless you keep thinking you do and if you decide to live your life thinking you make bad decisions then that is up to you
"Every Choice is the right choice" is very stoic and is going in my notes right next to "the laws of physics are merely a suggestion"
Nah every choice you make is a horrible mistake you just don't know cuz you just didn't see the other much better option.
That is not what the stoics practiced or meant with their teachings.
thanks for this great comment
You are a light being having a human experience.
I discovered this recently and I was really shocked. It's sooo true!
This movie had a PROFOUND effect on me... i remember seeing it years ago, because I've always loved Jared Leto and deliberate choices to pursue more evocative, abstract and thought-provoking roles. I knew i couldn't articulate it or even fully understand it at the time, but it touched me on such a deep and poignant level, and left me feeling so much and thinking so far out of the box and removed from my everyday reality... i wanted to go outside and just run barefoot through a forest, or jump high into the air and break outside of the parameters of my own body. It was liberating and incredibly depressing at the same time. I'm still trying to make sense of it all... truly an extraordinary film.
"liberating and incredibly depressing at the same time". So true. And that's what makes it so beautiful.
Thank you for this comment! It's beautifully written and definitely makes me want to watch the movie!! I'm happy you had that experience, as formidable as it was💖💖 Hope things are going well!!
One of my favorite things is the details of the movie. look at the colors; one main timeline is yellow; yellow stands for the bright and bold, in this life he lives a bold high end life. One is blue, stands for emotion; this timeline he struggles with his and his wife’s emotions. The final main route is red, standing for love. In this timeline he’s in love and that’s his main motivation. Often the times the colors mix in scenes and it eludes to something changing or some major choice.
@Zombies In Pjs some of the littlest things have such a big meaning. Another one of my favorite movies is secret life of Walter Mitty. I’m that movie, anytime there is red, it’s about to have an adventure.
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Mr Nobody is my favourite film and you've put my feelings into form more perfectly than I ever could.
Same 😁
I loved this movie so I wanted to get more insight from RUclips and this guy just made me appreciate the film even more.
"... and this is all I've been waiting for, all this time: renouncing all possible lives for one only, with you."
Wow... I think this will be my love declaration
So strong
This is my favorite movie since the day I first saw and was amazed by it. It taught my teenage self a lot about what is important in life and what small little choices can do to someones whole life.
-So I would like to say:
If all tiny choices matter, like saying Anna's friends are stupid or being honest about not being able to swim. And your life will drastically change after this 3 seconds, then at the same time no choice matters. If every little thing can change your life, from ordering a coffee or getting a yogurt in the store to the left then don't stress about it too much and follow your heart(feeling). Which in any case is usually the right choice.
When you feel right about doing something, that is the right thing to do. Your life will shape itself around it and I hope you will encounter beautiful people to share the happiest smiles with.
Look life right in the eye, smile and embrace it. Live free and share happiness.
- Awesome that you covered this movie. I like your content a lot, very relaxing and mind opening.
Unfortunately, life is not as simple as "follow your passion", or "do what you feel like". It's more complex than that.
fun fact: "nemo" is literally Latin for "nobody"
Finding Nobody
Makes sense
then he´s nobody nobody
Fun fact : “Finding Nemo” is a great movie! 😀😂
Cool!
I am so passionate about this movie and am so grateful for your content. Thank you!!! ❤️
love this movie
Same. My all-time favorite movie.
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@@lucas4736 name of this movie pls ?
All Because an unemployed Brazilian boiled an egg 🇧🇷
Lmfao
i enjoyed the egg tho, i'm sorry for the hassle :/
Fun fact: He is also director of the film.
“consequenseces“
@@lucaskavalkantej egua, mas aquela tua cozinha hein? complicado
This movie saved my life. It was amazing. A true must watch
I had 2 weeks depresion after i watched this movie. But it is good movie.
@Millinial Picasso sorry dusky see this.... depression hit hard and i saw this on netflix.... and it made me see life a bit different after a fail attempt.... so watch the movie if you haven't its good
@Millinial Picasso i feel you. But it just help me see things in a different light. The choices and the decisions we make create the reality we see and live in... and idk like i said it just open my eyes up. And I've been good since then
I stayed up w friends to watch this movie and oh my god how underrated it is. The philosophy and the meaning behind this is so incredible and it’s just a masterpiece.
C'mon man... I'm riding the train home. This almost made me cry. Hit me in the feels.
9:10 Dr. Chang just described the difference in choosing Bulbasar, Squirtle, or Charmander.
I'm so grateful that you chose to review this movie. I was one of the people that requested it and it was probably the one movie I most wanted you to cover. This film holds such special meaning to me in ways that I can't easily explain. Especially as a person who is very much into Theoretical Physics and has adopted 4-Dimensionalism or the Many Worlds Theory of Space-Time as a "worldview," as well as being an Existentialist too. It just touched me so much to see someone crack this masterpiece, which by all accounts is no easy task. You made every other review of this film I have ever watched make it seem like they were done by grade schoolers and written in crayons. I mean... you just destroyed anything else out there that I have ever watched about this film, the way you view things is just unparalleled. I can't imagine how much work went into what you have created, when most people can't even grasp this film on even a basic level. The skills you possess make you a god amongst men, and if I knew enough intellectuals I would pass this along to everyone I knew; unfortunately I do not, so my own gratitude alone will have to do for now.
I especially loved how you touched upon the timeline in which Nemo surrendered making any decisions at all, which definitely seemed to be the one that we saw where he was the most unhappy. Our choices define us and the make us who we are; for good and for bad. My choices haven't always made me happy, but I don't really ever regret the choices I have made, which were based on the data I had available to me at that time. I have tried to make my choices out of love, even if the depth of my love was unreciprocated to the degree in which I freely gave it. I have scars, lots of them, but they all took me from one place to a new place. And while some of those moments seemed so perfect at the time, we unfortunately cannot live in them forever. Time is a construct we cannot escape as 3-dimensional beings and it is forever fleeting.
To quote my favorite songwriter: "I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself to hold on to these moments as they pass."
I am at least fortunate to know now when I am living in those most special of moments, and to squeeze every bit of happiness out of them as I can. But as the years pass those moments seem to happen much less frequently and I long for my youth. I long for the times when every decision, even small, could have taken me anywhere. With age comes extra responsibility and ties to things that we cannot just get up and leave from. The best moments of my life were the times when riding out the timeline of a decision was wide open and endless. I think that is what this film actually captures best. As well as the certain moments we long to revisit and relive for the rest of our time here on Earth. I know which moments are the ones that I could live in forever if given the possibility and many, if not most of them are tied to my youth. Much like as is the case for young Nemo who seems to often lose his sense of meaning in his timelines somewhere between youth and adulthood, never seeming to be quite complete as the years drag on. Except maybe for his times with Anna, which seemingly was his one true love, as well as the relationship where the depths of his love were reciprocated equally. Which we should all be so lucky to find in this life and is something that I don't think even happens to every human even once in a lifetime. Such a gift and the experiences it brings are unparalleled in our journey.
I think that you caught and captured all of that quite nicely, and in a way that possibly no one else can. Thanks for sharing my friend. Gifts like yours are ones that bring people together and make this planet feel like a community once more, which is something we keep losing more and more of as technology causes us to inevitably drift further and further away from what was, and is what I believe to be our true natural state.
Thank you sir, for making this planet feel small again. If only for brief moments of inescapable time.
The choice to live. This may seem obvious to most, but those who venture deeper into the abyss know what a hard choice this can be. Thank you for your hard work on these videos. They are deeply touching and delightfully thought-provoking. Love this movie
I am terrified of the possibility that the answer might be different for each of us. It might be no. If that is the case, and honesty within our lonely hearts would say it is, those of us barely surviving are just cowardly inflicting pain on ourselves. But, a corpse can be and actually is more painful for close ones. Luckily, depression, misanthropy and anhedonia will graciously strip you of those with enough time.
@@sk3ptik0s49 If we each indeed have free will within this somewhat constrained environment, then certainly the answer will be different for every individual. I agree with Hume in his essay on Suicide, that it is the human right of every person to choose whether they continue their life or not. But I do not condone the act of suicide, because the emotions of loneliness and despair are temporal experiences, no matter how long they appear to endure. To feel your life purposeless and to judge it meaningless can only occur in a deep state of suffering. Because we live in a body we will desire certain things, and when we desire we will suffer for it, and the disappointed expectations around it. But this does not mean that we should suppress our desires so we may avoid suffering, as suffering is the only state in which true personal growth of character can occur. Our development stops the moment our suffering stops. It is somehow encouraging to meet others who can graciously admit to the loneliness they feel in their hearts. This very thing somehow helps us feel less alone. As they say, misery loves company :)
@@immadiel1661 I have read that piece by Hume and most of what Camus wrote ("El hombre rebelde" being my favourite). To me, the best argument for the impossibility of "free" will was put forth by Schopenhauer. Do you know of someone that argued succesfully for a free will, or can you defend that idea yourself? I think that when you aprehend fully the law of cause and effect you see that nothing that happens could have happened in any other way. And yet, outside of this cold rationalism I have personally documented instances where the past (and therefore the present) have changed. They call this "The Mandela Effect". I couldn't advance much investigating the phenomenon but I proved that at least one of the changes has residual evidence in websites and memories of unrelated persons.
@@sk3ptik0s49 I am a humble couch philosopher at best, so I doubt I could make an effective case for free will. But if everything is already predetermined by a cause over which our choices have absolutely no effect, then no person can be held responsible for their own thoughts, words or deeds. Then no one should be punished for doing bad things, and no one should be rewarded for doing good. Without at least some level of free will, no one ever would, or even could, accept personal responsibility for anything. I remember reading a good attempt to reconcile free will and determinism in a chapter of a book called The Limits of Evolution by a California Professor called George Holmes Howison. His philosophy was a Personalism, so whether you will find that helpful will depend on whether you fall closer to the Idealist or Materialist spectrum of philosophy. I have no personal experience of the Mandela Effect, and have found none of the proof for it too convincing, though I cannot deny the possibility of its reality. It would be a great example of a consciousness of a kind (whether individual or collective) affecting a cause, if my reasoning is sound.
@@immadiel1661 Or perhaps is just time travel, as "pop culture" would propose, haha. I added this wild experience as it is relevant to the video and somewhat to the discussion, but understandbly unless someone has experienced it him/herself the healthiest response is to dismiss such lunacy, which is exactly what I would have done without being a direct witness. It seems this Howinson fella is quite old, and wrestles still with a very strong Christian presence. We are free of that influence now, free to embrace scientific nihilism... lol
“So long as you don’t make a choice all possibilities remain possible”
Perhaps one of the best phrases ever
How I have lived my life, but unfortunately like said TIME in one direction so far.
Schrodinger's cat.
It's really a fallacy. It could only have been true if the time, the entropy didn't exist. But since they do so do possibilities change with the flow of time.
What do you think if we add "So long as you don't make a choice all possibilities remain possible... and all realities but the current remain unreachable" ?
By very presence you are making a choice even without seemingly not making at all. This is your choice and that determines your life.
I have no idea why this movie is not more popular, it's easily in my top 10.
I've watched this video like 100 times, I just keep coming back every few months.
For more on this sort of philosophy, I'd recommend reading Soren Kierkegaard, whose philosophy talks about how the infinite possibilities available to humans can fill us with existential dread. He essentially says that because there is no outside authority (such as God, which is taken on faith, not evidence) that can assure us of the 100% correct choice, we must take a leap of faith and choose something, anything, even though we may regret the infinite other roads not traveled. The only other option is "fear and trembling." Paralysis of the spirit.
Great video as always LSOO!
"Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards." - Kierkegaard
I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who has connected his ideas to this film. You're on it my friend
I suggest also Sartre
Damn, and here I was planning to drop Kierkegaard before this. Thanks for changing that
Can I ask which book from Kierkegaard you would recommend? That addresses these topics.
However, Kierkegaard was a devout Christian, meaning that he believed God still dictated outcomes. The video is correct, every choice outcome has equal significance, but not every choice has equal happiness. Some choices ultimately end in woe and misery.
This is a very thorough analysis. I love the movie, but never thought of it this way. It makes a lot of sense. In the end, it is not about living a perfect life, all that matters is just living a life without regrets.
You’re one of my favorite RUclipsrs! You’re videos are so thought provoking and mentally stimulating that I’ve watched them all!
13:27 - This is all whe world should see on every screen once every week.
Especially in today's times in a world full of ego and hatred.
I'm a cold hearted guy, I lack empathy and emotional sensibility but that monologue brings tears to my eyes and moves me deeply like nothing else does.
I first watched this movie right after breaking up with my first girlfriend at 16. It struck me like lightning. I was sure I did the right thing, but I didn't see the the weight of my actions before (as well as I had spent months before coming to make the choice because it was so hard).
I've always had an issue making choices, ever since I was a child, so this movie fitted me like glove. It's the one of the three movies I've ever rewatched, and last time I watched it I cried.
And again I cried right as I listened to your video about it.
This was super encouraging honestly, I just made a huge choice to move abroad and teach English but I haven't been so sure that I've made the right call. There's a freedom in knowing that sometimes the best thing to do is to make a decision. Love your channel!
As a teacher of English trust me, you won't regret it.
This is one if my favorite movies ever. It's confusing an' all, but there's meaning to it. Thank you for covering it
Brighten Black I haven't seen this movie before but now I have to. That you regard this movie as highly as you do makes me wonder which other films you like and recommend.
@@keithfrancis6444 You would get a very mixed bag from me. I watch a lot of films in many genres. Like, Scott Pilgrim, Into the Wild, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, The Thing, Dark Knight all top the list, too, if you're truly wondering
This music crescendo brought so many onions to my eyes... 12:12
This was really deep n thought provoking. I feel one of the best by 'Like stories of the old'. Thanks dude. I m awed by your understanding, knowledge n intelligence. Love from India
In the end, there is no right, no better choice. Because if you choose one, you will always regret not to choose others, no matter what your choice is. The important thing is that you should stop being regretful and do your best to make that choice a meaningful one.
Thanks for the message !
I have fallen in love with an amazing girl while traveling and the short time we have spent together have been filled with moments of genuine happiness. As it comes time for me to move on I am confronted with a difficult decision. When I saw you uploaded this video I immediately smiled because the concept directly applies to my current situation. I still don't know what I am going to do, but you have reassured me, no matter what path I take it will be the right one.
Are you guys together?
Your interpretation is just as incredible as the film itself. Wonderfully presented sir. Thank you.
This really highlights the phrase “Follow your heart”. Don’t worry about what could be just make choices and embrace the results. We must all FOLLOW OUR HEARTS. If you don’t know how then get in touch with yourself. Really sit down with yourself and be authentic. What do you want? There could be infinite universes with infinite outcomes but what matters is this..right here and right now. Look within and take action. True Happiness is vital.
Elise: you’re all gonna end up drowning with me
Nemo: we’ll learn how to swim
🥺😭
I guess we are the custodians of life's meaning as Carl Sagan once said, brilliant as usual
Saganism
I OFTEN come to your page when I need insight, support, entertainment or simply needing to hear a peaceful voice.
This being the video I come to the most.
Thank you for all the help you've given me.
How in God's name have I never heard of this film???
Thank you for this, whoever you are.
Please watch it, it’s so good.
this movie is so much ignored or overlooked that even very big YT critics have either not seen it or talked about it, thanks for a wonderful video. Loved ur explanation as much as this movie
i have not seen the movie although you brought me to tears going down the memory lane on choices i made in the past looking for meaning and purpose . I appreciate you for the way you tell the stories and it touches the deepest parts in our beings where you feel vulnerable and it feels like time sits still and in that moment there's an opening and a new experience that elevates all your previous thoughts . I love it thank you
This could just be the best video essay I have ever seen. I didn't know Mr. Nobody video essay could be that emotional and contain so much beauty. Every video of yours that I watch, I fall more in love with you. Thank you for giving me these moments.
These videos are like week's worth of introspection. Certainly always worth my time to watch!
I've been unemployed for a long time now and been trying hard to pay off debts, and the more that time passes, the more I get confused with my thoughts - if I've made the right decisions all along - if I'm truly happy, or if, in time, I would even be. This video happened to pop up on my recommendations. Watching this video made me assess my life again. I have to remember that all my choices are right, and it is only up to me on how much I would value it.
You shouldn’t justify wrongdoings by philosophy. If you have a debt, you owe someone money. It’s not fair of you not to pay and justify that by the philosophy of “I’m making the right choice”.
@@HummusPvm Depending on the nature of his debt, it might be that he had his credit revoked because of divorce etc. and now have much worse lending terms than when he signed up?? In that case, it is not morally deplorable to default and cut a better deal with the bank. However his comment is not about defaulting, but what lead up to his indebted situation he is pondering about and that getting that loan was the right choice at the time, instead of spending time on regrets.
I relate to Nemo. I’ve always had a problem with making any kind of decision. I’ve only recently gotten better but my apathy has gotten worse. I don’t dread my mistakes but I do enjoy the ones that bring happiness. When things are taken away from me I try not to beat me self up about it but I still know how it makes me feel. His quote “anything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning” really gets to me. I just hope that I’m making the best decisions and that I’m living in my best timeline.
I had constant chills for the last 30 minutes of the film. I was crying and grinning. This movie had such a profoundly beautiful effect on me.
People have learned from this video so far by not hitting dislike. Thanks for teaching us.
This is one of those movies I keep returning to again and again. It's so profoundly beautiful.
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. Thank you for this.
This video is so graceful, it has moved me in a way nothing else have ever done . I’ve searched for meaning my whole life but finally I understand that the meaning comes inward it’s something we create is not given by any external factors in our life, family or relatives. I just wanted to say thank you very much for uploading this magnificent video. Looking forward to watching that movie.
Most meaningful choice I face is trying not to watch your new videos before I see the movie.
(for real though, have you considered giving a heads up as to which film you plan on doing next?)
Love all of these, they have honestly really helped me put clearer words to the thoughts in my head, thanks.
To refuse to make a choice is to make a choice. We cannot not choose. Refusing to choose does not break reality but simply creates another timeline. That is if all choices are equal to the fabric of reality.
When I was younger and my first wife and I would try to figure out what our next move should be, we relied mostly upon what’s known as, “The Ben Franklin Close.”
You know this one, don’t you? You list the pros on one side of a line and the cons on another and go with the one that outweighs the other.
The trouble is, many times we made the choice that was most logical, but not the one we felt most drawn to. Then, how’s that choice unfolded in time, it often, more often than not, didn’t turn out as well as we expected. This left us feeling like it was the wrong choice.
I believe our error was in not giving extra weight to the choice we felt better about because feelings generated by the subconscious take into account factors your logical brain hasn’t figured out, hasn’t even recognized.
“Go with your heart,” is usually the best decision. That is provided it is not the one that is going to hurt the greatest number of people.
You got me with tears right now. I appriciate so much what you have done today you made me remember so many things that I have forgotten.
You get a new subscriber here!
Thank you so much. (From the Dominican R.)
I was almost crying at the end of the video. Really great work! In my eyes this isn't an essay anymore. Through your skills, this has become an emotional, philosophical conversation that's happening between you and the movie.
This movie
This freakin movie...
I found it here on RUclips, before I was old enough to understand it, but it has been the most emotionally significant movie I've ever seen.
...this freakin movie
It's like they say, some times you have to choose from the heart and not from the mind, especially the difficult ones... listen to your inner spirit and instinct. Nice video ! 😉
I needed this today. Thank you for another spell-binding video.
You absolutely knocked this out of the park. I’m amazed. Wow. No wonder this is still my #1 favorite movie. You actually gave me a new perspective on it, too.
Great film. Always loved Mr Nobody.
A meaningful choice that I hade to make at one point in life was to chose between moving to a new country(better supposedly) all alone ... or .... stay home surrounded by friends and family (in an not so great environment, with limited possibilities )
you should've tried going here in the Philippines. LOL.
youtubers always say its a surprisingly good choice.
i don't know.
i lived here all my life and love everything so much.
You are by far the best thing I have heard in years… thank you… thank you for helping me in a time when I need help… priceless… beautiful… blessed be… peace…
Since I've seen your video about the archetypes, you became quickly my favorite channel. I´m really grateful to find you and know your amazing content. Thank you.
Y'know, I've give a watched this movie several times and never figured out what I liked about it. You're the first person to give a reasonable answer! Also, good timing; I'm having one of those tough choices right now.
Like Stories of Old grew up as Mr. Nobody
I only saw this film once (years ago) and had very mixed feelings about it; I felt frustrated by it. This video definitely provided some insightful wisdom. I understood it was about alternate timelines and had an emphasis on the nature and importance of choices (making choices or lack thereof) but while watching Mr. Nobody I was constantly trying to figure out or determine which timeline (which choices) were better (or the best). I think I realize now the point was about how each path had good things and bad things, there was not only just one "meaningful" or "correct" or "optimal" path. Each path was worthwhile, each different path had value and meaning despite the different outcomes and experiences.
In my own life I love the idea of "Holding life with an open hand"
Which is to say we shouldn't constantly second-guess everything we do, condemn our circumstances, or regret our decisions.
Life is mysterious and unknowable, therefore we should aim to embrace the experiences of life instead of constantly overthinking everything, stressing over circumstances, or regretting our decisions all the time. Hold life with an open hand.
This is why I subscribed to your channel. Your essays contain extremely powerful hammers of insights that break our opaque limiting understanding glass walls that we call paradigms. By this act alone, it opens our eyes and understanding to the world and has us realize that the world is a mixture of a sunshine and rainbow land filled with erupting volcanoes and poisonous predators. How we choose to approach this intimidating wonderland is entirely up to us. We have the tools and the willpower to explore and thrive in this land. That we have all the tools in our arsenal, but we keep forgetting that we do have them because stagnation, misinformation, miscommunication and paralyzing fear of action blinds us to them. By sharing your viewpoints, it helps us understand the importance of our lives and how we choose to approach this world. Like you said beforehand, the power lies within us to choose, which is the most powerful tool of all. Thank you.
well said!
Well said indeed! Thanks! :)
This instantly became my favorite movie when I first saw it as a kid.
It still holds a special place in my heart and will continue to for the rest of my life.
Thanks for talking about this criminally underrated masterpiece.
This movie made me smell the smells of being with my high school sweet heart , the perfume she wore .. the smell of food when I first snuck in her house , the first time we were skin2skin , the rush of constantly looking out the window for a particular car , the pride of knowing you’re in love and so is she .. and , we’re still together but struggling , but still strong .. the adult life is a kick in the balls and this movie made it a bit easier to cope with !
narrator's voice is super calm, its a treat for listening
I'm a simple man. I see a LSOO notification, I grab a box of tissues.
Exactly, me too. I don't remember even one of LSOO videos that didn't bring me to tears.
Lol
That's lewd, man.
This is just a masterpiece... This movie came at me in the moment where I decided to stop chasing a dream where I already failed, where I can't feeling the same thing regarding it. I was lost, feeling that the fact I failed on this dream meaning that I would failed in life and had nothing else to pursue... 3/4 years later here I'm, with a lot of other dreams and knowing that the life is UNBELIEVABLE vast of possibilities. Nothing defines you... Thank you a lot for the message spread throught this movie, I don't know if the people envolved into it knows how much they impact people lifes, but I trully hope they can feel it in someway, just thank you.
A sci-fi film only sci-fi fans even know exist. Great work, and I really really really hope you do a video on the Eastrail 177 trilogy, or at least just Unbreakable, someday.
Sifat Shams not true, i am not a fan, but found this movie years ago, not a fan from this one tbh
Our choices absolutely matter. My Aunt gave me a piece of advice which has never failed me in life -- Happiness is a direct result of making good choices/decisions every moment.
Verla 2 veces seguidas para entender bien, verla cada año para recordar algo muy lógico: "TOMAR DISTINTAS DECISIONES EN ESTA VIDA TE LLEVARÁ POR CAMINOS DIFERENTES"
La pregunta es si estoy tomando la decisión correcta, pero cómo saber si es la correcta. Por eso cuesta mucho tomar decisiones cuando uno piensa demasiado en el futuro de cada una de las opciones. Es por ello que talvez podría tomar caminos distintos al que la vida me ofrece, no ir con papá ni con mamá, solo seguir esa hoja seca que el azar lo lleva por algún lugar y probablemente encontrarme con Anna, la felicidad.
As a guy intrigued in philosophy, here's my key takeaways of the movie:
The reason the 118 year old Nemo was happy at the very end of the movie is because everything up until that point, he has known the future(s) (due to the angels missing him out), and thus, life has become plain and boring. We see him reaching many bad outcomes due to him 'manifacturing' his own life. This is a teaching of going with the flow as opposed to forcing.
The backwards timeline (the big crunch) at end of the movie is where anything could happen-he doesn't know. Here he says "This is the greatest day of my life."
As the backwards timeline is reflecting what reality is really like for us, the movie is trying to show us that life is "like a playground", and it would be boring if you knew everything that did happen...
As for the final Anna scene (where the leaf blows to the circle), when we detatch from the idea of choices (denoted by the boy running away from the train tracks) and instead meet the ultimate truth of the present moment (i.e. the present is all there is), then we will meet our destiny :)
Masterpiece of a film. I'll certainly be rewatching.
I suddenly realized that this movie and Arrival have similar themes. Awesome video!
This is no lie. i've spent the last 15 years or so on this platform. i've watched sooo many videos on here. and this one is the best i have seen, fr. It means a lot. thank you for creating this.
"The vision made him want to freeze into immobility, but this too was action with its consequences. "
Quote from Dune
To anyone who is reading this right now - know that life is a gift even when it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel... dare to make a decision and dare to live the way you want and to love even when it hurts. This movie will always keep a special place in my heart and I will try to remind myself whenever I feel like I lost track of myself and to live by these words.
Know that you have something to give and that there is someone out there who will love you like you wish to be loved... don't hesitate! You are not alone!
This is one of my favourite movies of all time. And you truly did it justice. Ps. This is the only channel which has ad content that is as good as the actual content hahaha when you started the intro to Mubi at the end of the episode, you had me man. Thanks for taking the time to tie it into the greater theme of the episode. Taking you up on that free trial.
this essay made me cry at the end... Thank you for this, this film is a masterpiece
The most meaningful choice I have made is to have children. Each and every one of them was a conscious choice. A choice which is at the very center of my being “life”. Bringing children into this world is not about “us” as parents or the quality of life we can provide for the children. Children will make their own choices. Creating life is about giving and letting go a part of ourselves and appreciation of the beauty of life. We must continue to choose to create life at all costs.
Go ahead. Go out and make babies!!!
How about no.
I have watched many of your videos. They are always thought provoking to say the least. This is the one that made me cry. And I am not one to do that often. I have had 2 months now of being at home, furloughed, because of this damn plague. Which means I have had lots of time to simply reflect on my 56 years of life. More so than normal. Through your video and this film I have come to realize I was/am in Mr. Nobody's predicament. I am realizing that, although reflection and remembrance have their place in present and future decision making ( a sort of weighted organic Recursive Neural Network ), when you begin to stay in Recursive mode you begin to get lost in the "Neural Tree". A sort of cognitive feedback loop happens where you either A: get trapped in a Regrets Loop and/or B: get trapped in "Analysis Paralysis". I believe I am in both. I probably have intuited this. But your video has now made that abundantly explicit and for that I thank you. Life is like a 'Choose Your Own Adventure Book". However, unlike the finite amount of choices one can make at the end of each chapter to see how you are to proceed to the next chapter, in the real life there are infinite choices which eventually leads to infinite conclusions to each chapter of the human story...our personal human story. But still, in the end, there is a single conclusion to our story just like the more limited "Choose Your Own Adventure Book". The trick to either one is we must choose a path and then...turn the page. The difference is....you can always go back and make all the other choices the book had available to see all the permutation the story would take. You can't in real life. And if you try, then, you begin to not live a real life.
"We are all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet that can see the strings." - Dr. Manhattan
Thank you for this video. I've been questioning a recent decision I made starting a new job, and many other things past and present. When he says that every decision is the right decision and that life is a playground, that put a smile to my face. Thank you.
This felt way shorter than 15 min. I'm impressed, great work!
Love all the thoughts Love the voice in and out spoken never over, kudos! ! wrote this in response to timestamp 1532. Staying on par takes mastering the basics. A par a day in some way keeps the focus on play out the box off the t playing the fair way instead of the rough. Avoid the hazards in the approach, keep same attitude when stuck in the trap. 24 hours with sleep 18 hours to score par. Every hour consider each an opportunity to make par without worrying , no reason when you love the game you play .
I have been waiting for you to make a new video, Ive watched all of your videos and it had motivated me in alot of aspects of my life. Keep up the great work and inspirational and intelligent, mind-opening videos.
This is my favorite video in all youtube
I absolutely love your analysis! I'm a great fan of the film, understood it well and it made me think. But your comprehensive take on the themes the film explores takes it to yet another level of appreciation. Very inspiring, beautifully done!
Wowww! I have been dreaming about this. The concept of the universe, time, space dimension, future, past, reincarnation, In this cycle of samarsa where every choice we made is relative. It feels like there is some unseen force guiding me here🙏🏻 im that nobody who can never decide things because to me there is no good or bad and the extreme of itself is its polar opposite. Thank you. Now im convinced that the path im walking is the right one even if i'll be walking in the abyss for eternity and a curse that follows in the shadow. Someday i will be whole and complete
I feel like I've only made mistakes and am now paralyzed by indecision. I'm not living.
everope then wake up and change your life. I don’t know you but you are better than that negativity. We have all been down and out but you must find a way to be optimistic and push back against the depravity pulling you down. You are a champion and I wish you powerful luck
All i have done in my life is mistakes...
Maybe they where the love of your life, and you didn't find out their homicidal tendencies when you used the butter knife for jam.
Maybe you would be offered the best job in the world when in the final year of that course, but the debt made you suicidal.
You cannot know you have made mistakes with the decisions you have made.
Hard choices are not hard, they are the result of the brain's fear of missing out on what could have been.
@@Youchubeswindon damn bro... i felt that
I have felt like Mr Nobody too many times to count in this life. FANTASTIC THESIS as always!
The meaningful choice is a fallacy. We never know the repercussions of our choices, ultimately. The only satisfying conclusion, therefore, is that we cannot make a mistake.
I don't understand how a meaningful choice is a fallacy. Perhaps it depends how we define meaningful?
@@Godspeednihilo Every well-intentioned action (choice) produces unpredictable consequences, some positive, some negative. Likewise, every ill-intentioned action (choice) produces unpredictable consequences, some negative, some positive. Therefore, the so-called, meaningful choice, which produces exclusively positive results, is a fallacy. Or you might say: a delusion. Because, it ignores the yang and yin nature of reality.
@@suninmoon4601 but meaningful doesn't mean exclusively positive results. Meaningful comes with the attitude of acceptance and gratitude for one's choice and the circumstances that follows regardless if it produces positive outcomes. Which is why Nemo in the movie stated that every path and choice has just as much meaning as it is reliant on the person to derive meaning.
@@Godspeednihilo "Every path and choice has just as much meaning..." --a wise clown fish
If indeed every choice has as much meaning as the next, what meaning then remains in the phrase "meaningful choice?"
In order for words and concepts to have any meaning at all, one must to be able to specify what is excluded from their designation. What then is a "meaningless choice?"
Our lives are chock full of such "meaningful sayings." Few of us ever take the time to think about how little they actually mean.
"Meaningful comes with the attitude of acceptance..."
I think that what you are referring to here is "choicelessness," which is indeed the opposite of meaningful choices--and the attitude of faith.
@@suninmoon4601 I disagree, meaningful and meaningless choices are dependent on the person making them. You mistaken that meaningful choice has an inherent value that is not reliant to the person making the choice. It is indeed that every choice has as much meaning as the next because this implies potential meaning not the actuality of meaning that will be already be given by the person deciding on the choices.
Specify what is excluded from their designation? That's up to the person to discern that. A choice to spend time on your hobby is meaningful for one but meaningless to another person.
Meaningful sayings? They are dependent on the person if they are touched by the saying. An emotional person may derive meaning from random sayings that speaks to them, a cynic or realist may find it meaningless.
Choicelessness doesn't remove the possibility of us finding meaning. Even if we don't decide, we may give meaning to our indecisiveness or lack of freedom to choose between the dilemma. Yet we may also choose to commit and accept to what has happened, hence an attitude. I don't see choicelessness as a complete opposite to meaningful choices.
Edit: typo
What a beautiful explanation of what is truly a masterpiece. I was introduced to this film by someone who just passed through my life in a very random chance episode. I think it's funny that out of all the recommendations that day THIS one was the one that I picked to watch. I definitely remembered the trailer from the past once I saw it, but It had really slipped my memory over the years. What a fantastic message.
This movie passed me by... I need to watch it now, then come and watch you video again.
Thanks for your inspiration 😎
This is one of the best videos I have ever seen in my life... and I have lived many decades now.
This was a fantastic breakdown of the movie! It definitely deepened my understanding of the film as well as my understanding of life! Thank you!
I have no words to explain how amazing this video is. It hit me deep.