How Donald Glover Creates Social Commentary
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An exploration of techniques Donald Glover and Hiro Murai use in the Childish Gambino music video "This is America" and TV show Atlanta to create unique social commentary.
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what makes it for me is the surrealism. its totally unlike any other show because its not fantasy its totally based in reality, and you can relate to everything. but then completely out of left field, something physically impossible will happen in a way that is so seamless, it makes it appear possible in their reality - for example the invisible car gag. its a totally new form of humor to me but i love it! when is season 3?!?
you've summed up why I love the show so well.
Also, Florida man
i would call it magical realism, i think it fits better
Season 3 and 4 were supposed to release towards the end of this year or next year I think, buttt that's probably not going to happen
Tomy Rottman was gonna say the same thing. Surrealism, at least how we use the term in popular culture, is based around the subconscious and dreams, while Magic Realism is based in reality with strange and fantastical elements
Holy shit that editing. You have serious skill
Thank you!
The fuck?
It's Robbin' Season
Half-Blood Prince gotta eat
Magical realism
It's Duck Season!
Oh boy this aged well
I sincerely believe this show is overlooked for how much thought goes into the writing process. Each episode just leaves me pondering about the message they may be trying to convey. This may be the only show that I truly empathize with the characters because their problems are actually real and they are just trying to get by like everyone else.
I watch ONE Community reunion table reading and now my RUclips feed is loaded with Donald Glover related content.... Jesus. I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM NOW! How do you stop auto-play?! FUUU -
Same bro.. I feel ya🥵
its easy, you dislike videos you don't wanna see and like videos you wanna see.
It's the rabbit hole 😂
I just can't stop seeing anything related to Glover... And I love it
How I wish they made that damn movie and that Troy made at least a simple cameo. DO IT NOW!!!
The first time I saw Atlanta it felt like a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (to me, Atlanta is more 'Realismo Magico' than surrealism), Garcia Marquez was influenced by Kafka, Joyce, Faulkner, Woolf and Hemingway. The cinematography is really really powerful and without it the show wouldn't work,. That's why Hiro and Donald are artist that deserve the recognition, they let their art speak for them, no explanation needed, they start the conversation. Good work with the clip btw. Cheers
Mario Andrei Pantoja Maguiña Atlanta is exactly the kind of realismo mágico style based in America. Very good description. It's not what's happening, it's how people react and lube through it, their tractions and lifestyle around the subject.
Thanks never heard of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I'll check him out.
can't y'all just say magical realism lol
Alejandro Jodorowsky ! The chilean king of realismo magico and psicomagia and more check it out.
I thought exactly the same when I saw the invisible car scene. I jaw dropped
Atlanta just started airing in the UK I'm so excited an a massive Glover fan this just made me even more hyped
As an immigrant to the US, certain social commentary that's found in Atlanta I pick up on very well. At other times there are overlapping situations that go at the heart of the human condition in dealing with other humans, the quirks and habits shown in the show are also present in my home country (in eastern europe) so I get some serious deja vu when I see the mindset portrayed so well in a tv show. On top of that I am figuring out the layers of social commentary regarding race relations, american history and the rest... there are mad lessons in each episode and it might take me a few viewings to pick up on everything they are showcasing.
I've never seen Atlanta. You've convinced me. Thanks. Great video, by the way.
Thanks! That was my goal for this video, to get people who've seen the music video but haven't watched the show interested in watching it!
Clark Delis
Yeah same!
You've NEVER seen Atlanta?! Oh man, have fun
That edit at the beginning though
Atlanta is, no joke, my favorite show in the last ten years maybe. It's so fucking good.
Same
Atlanta, the boondocks and south park are all genius. Unlike every other show on TV they're willing to take chances or be different. There are other good shows but only a handful of great ones in the last 30 years or so.
South Park is garbage my friend.
@@wanderlustendumado5396 screw you I'm going home
Awesome analysis! Haven't watch Atlanta yet, but now I am interested thanks to this video. Sweet editing man!
I wish I could deeply understand the meaning of the Atlanta's episode "Teddy", where Darius goes to the house of this guy to buy a piano and shit got out of control
That episode freaked me tf out. I think it kind of showed how black men are still held captive and persecuted in America. And the scary reality that violence and pain really do create amazing art. The weirdest part to me is how they just neglected to talk about it after. I guess for viewers to formulate their own opinions but also to show how in the life of a black man in the US that is normal just on a less severe level
from what i remember, it was the michael jackson episode. the pressure of being a black male entertainer in the US and how that manifests in the denial of one's blackness in order to get closer to whiteness. also, the relationships that men have with their sons caused by that pressure and the subsequent experience of trauma that gets passed on and inherited. my favourite episode from a near flawless tv show.
Michael Jackson
Donald as Teddy gives me nightmares and I Iove it
God, i love this part 3:25 nice job there
Oh wow, great video. Fabulous analyses, and smooth editing. It's so good I hope you edit a music mashup of 'this is America' and 'Atlanta.'
Good work man
this guy is so talented...mind boggling. he's in the zone right now.
Amazing editing and commentary. Seriously, top tier analysis.
Such great content on this channel. Happy to help sharing it.
Thanks!
Amazing edit
Found you through your Queen video and now I can’t stop binging your videos. Excellent video essays. My fiancé really loved your Wes Anderson video. I also really enjoyed your Christopher Nolan video. Subscribed for more!
Love this show, love glover, love this analysis. Keep it up; I'll be watching!
Really good work from the editor of this video damn
Very neat job. I'm looking forward to watching more of your work. Subscribed.
Thank you!
Amazing editing and loved the essay man. Time to rewatch Atlanta huh
I'm writing a term paper about "This Is America" right now - this video will definitely be incorporated. Really great content!
This was fantastic. Super impressed with your analysis. Subscribed.
this vid was really well edited, also i never thought about the Earn and earning money thing, nice vid
Fire content!! So informative and useful with great examples! Keep it up broooo!
This was a beautifully edited video.
Awesome video man, Atlanta's like my favourite show
Really enjoyed that editing and the match cuts.
Awesome analysis, keep it up.
my favorite show. i get the feeling it's gonna change the landscape of tv.
It's great. :)
Finally a good video essay on Atlanta!
Atlanta is the only reason I still watch anything on tv. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen, hands-down.
Thank you for this commentary. Damn, I gotta watch that show. Looks deep.
Amazing video
Great editing!
the transitions are beautiful
dude that intro gave me CHILLS. great parallels :)
Fantastic video!
I’m glad you exist & I’m subscribing
Sick video! Dope points!
Get ready my friend! This video will hit a million views before you know it! Great commentary.
Really well made man!
This video was amazing!
Excellent analysis!
Editing in this was great
Fantastic work. Great insights, just...damn.
When earn tried to buy a kids meal because he was poor and the lady had to let him know she was the manager and denyed him food because the rule was adults couldn't order a kids meal hit deep
good video essay. thanx!!
fantastic dissection mate
Great video dude...the best Atlanta moment for me was the invisible car!
Great video!
very well edited
duuuude this is top notch editing! please make an Atlanta music video with 'This is America'
That very last point you made tied this together so well. Always look around. Things r never what they might seeem🤍🐇🖤
I just understood the metaphor behing why he was running so frantically at the end of this is America. "As all of the tragedy and disaster become normalized, DG is literally running away from that ideology, protesting the "new normal". " NB: the desaster are represented by the peopke running after him.
DAMN that editing is on point
Love your work
Thanks!
Great explanation on this.
Great analysis.
Damn... Great job!
I understand the message now. great video
One word. Awesome!
cool edit mate
Awesome
It all make sense now thanks 🙏
I loved this analysis, you should make one of Guava Island! It would be interesting too!
awesome analysis! greetings from Argentina
This was fantastic! Any chance on more Atlanta vids?
best channel on RUclips
Really just a great analysis, literally I was waiting for you to see surrealism, Atlanta is one of the only shows influenced by Twin Peaks that actually takes that surrealistic energy and disperses it through their season the right way, hiro and Glover are like lynch and frost
i would love to see a full video of this America with Atlanta Fx series footage
Nice!
well this video is great.
Who is here after the protests?
Me
*Protests
Protests
@@rebeccaelliott9770 oh sorry edit : protests
bro how do you only have 328k subs
Please someone help, WHAT IS THE OUTRO SONG
MAGICAL REALISM.
Donald Glover is a musical and comical genius.
YOOOOO could you do videos on MR ROBOT. Im so taken away by that show.
*how teachers think they look when they break down some literature*
Your comment confuses me. You clearly learned something from the instructor, or you would fail to draw the comparison, yet your phrasing reeks of resentment.
@@ragnaroksbringer we got a college graduate here
@@katz9649 Smart people drop out. You have to be really dumb not to be an autodidact.
Atlanta is more accurate than people think. Dope boys and college level blacks come from the same place and your world always crossed based on who’s in your family.
3:37 most important
just good, g vid
Damn, this man is smart
Anyone else notice he's doing the Forrest Whitaker eye in the thumbnail?
Pretty abrupt ending there, but great video.
Glover is a genius
The editing is this video is fucking mad considering it's a video essay
which episode is the alligator one?
ur so smart
As was said before, I think the work is closer to magical realism than to surrealism. Good video though.
wait, the show is shot digital but the music video was film? are you sure it’s not the other way around? or both on film?
According to Hiro's instagram the music video was shot on 35mm. The show is shot on the Alexa Amira.
1:55 «Violence»
That’s what I get annoyed about in other music videos, where in just shows the darkness of our world and nothing else.
It’s background vs. foreground.
Bro I need season 3 and 4 rn but Coronas gone and fucking up everything stay safe everyone