A Pretentious Video Essay About X (2022)
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2024
- Happy belated Valentine's Day!! It's time to learn about how fundamentally unlovable we are through the lens of Ti West's interesting horror film X. Tune in next week when Pearl will be hovering over your bed. Video essay time:)
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If you read this, comment: "Good luck final girl. I hope you get what you deserve. No one's gonna do your job for you... After all that's not how this thing works..."
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Happy belated Valentine's Day y'all:) See you around
i love pearl and x, theyre two of the horror movies that have actually unsettled me and im really happy you decided to make a video on it!
Pearl is such a cool movie, can't wait for Maxxxine
I wonder if part of the fear of becoming old is the fear of becoming how a lot of the world sees elderly people to be; bitter and unable to feel the happiness they used to feel
I am SO glad a video like this was made for these movies. They are such deep and methodical films but they are always written off as "dumb-fun" slasher films which I don't get at ALL
I hope if I make a follow up that I can do Pearl justice
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you
get older.
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south,
Hide your head in the sand,
Just another sad old man,
All alone and dying of cancer.
From Dogs by Pink Floyd on Animals (1977). Their most underrated album IMHO.
You know that I care what happens to you
And I know that you care for me too
We are Legion.
We are Legion
We are Legion
We are legion
We are Legion
We are Legion
"Everything is temporary"
My dad told me when I was young
This is a funny one for me. I was walking through the living room and saw my wife had this movie on and it sucked me right in. I don't like slasher or horror or anything similar much, but as you said it didn't get to that for a while and the wackiness of the character development pulled me right in. I tuned out at the blood and gore but still thought it was unique and really appreciate you sharing your insights. Keep up the great work!
Hell yeah, I'm glad you had already seen it before watching my video
Interesting, it’s not often I find a video of yours that I don’t have any prior knowledge of, your introducing me to something new lol
:) Hell yeah, welcome to getting your mind twisted into new shapes
As someone who massively fucked up an incredibly important relationship i was in, that intro hit a little bit hard. While time was not as aspect of my lost love, the longing for what we used to have is something I always think im over until it comes back hitting like a fucking truck. Thank you for making me cry Daniel, happy belated Valentine’s Day :’)
Oh damn, I hope you're doing okay, we're here for you
@@danielprofeta much appreciated man, it's been almost a year since then so I've had some time to learn healthier coping mechanisms and life habits and what not. But ya know, still hurts sometimes. But what's past is past, all I can really do now is move forward with my life and do better.
But enough ranting from me, another banger man, haven't heard many people really discussing this topic so it was pretty cool to hear you talk Abt it. Hope you've been well, We are Legion 〰️
LETS GOOOO DANIELLLLL, 60K!!!!!!!!
Even though you deserve a lot more, >:T I hope you keep growing and keep your dreams going, love your music and content. :)
WE ARE LEGION
Ich werde bald zweiundsiebzig sein. Glauben Sie mir: Alt sein ist scheiße. Aber ich mache weiter! Ich habe immer noch Dinge, an denen ich scheitern kann. Das war übrigens dein bestes Video seit dem letzten, das du gemacht hast. Und ich muss sagen:
"Good luck final girl. I hope you get what you deserve. No one's gonna do your job for you... After all that's not how this thing works..."
I love google translate
I love trying to read it before hitting translate. Got most of it right, btw I’m 69 and don’t feel old yet.
Will watch the movie, although it may be painful. I certainly can relate to your video title. In almost all ways.
But well done. At this point, top-notch production, scripting, and editing sets you apart.
It's a pretty intense watch just fyi, I left out a lot
WE ARE LEGION!!
:) We are Legion
i love your videos because they are so thought-provoking. i had a whole existential-crisis comment typed out here, but decided that the people likely to read it didn’t need to see that lol
anyway. we are legion, and good luck final girl. i hope you get what you deserve. no one's gonna do your job for you... after all that's not how this thing works…
I would have read it
@@danielprofeta see i know you would, that’s the problem; i fear that, in sharing my own, i may induce existential crises in the people reading it. i have a feeling that the community is already prone.
@@raywolf08 Feel free to dm me elsewhere if you want though
I love X, it reminds me of the movie Belladonna of Sadness but with a modern take on it. While belladonna has a more pretty horror, X gives us the horror of beauty and the horror of what happens when we have beauty and how it changes over time. Its so silly
such an underrated video essay:(
This was not what I expected...it was even better 😂
I've never watched either of the movies, but they seem very interesting!! Love the video as always!
Thanks for watching my friend!!
i really need to watch more horror films!!! i think ill watch this one later perchance
That’s a movie I’ll never watch , horror is not my thing. But great video as always. Love the song at the end .
That song is my ringtone
We are legion
I understand what you were saying and it is true. I am 60 years old now and my husband and I (Twenty-Two) married your love grow stronger for that person and we will get old together and we make sure we say that I love you to each other. And yes my life with him is a beautiful one. And you are standing that with your girlfriend (wife)now and don't worry both of you may make mistakes but that only draws you closer to that person. And yes I seen the video you made with her. She is perfect picture for you. And you can tell her I said so.
I will tell her
@@danielprofeta Thank you Daniel. (your wife)
We are legion
You understand
We are legion, love the video
Thanks for watching my friend!!
We are a legion 🦐🦐🦐
i thought this was going to be about the social media platform
Shit, I'm a little afraid to watch this as I"m facing my 50th birthday 2 hours from this moment.
Congratulations and happy early birthday, may I one day make it where you are
@@danielprofeta I hope you do. And the video didn't trigger any angst in me, so that's good.
I have said it before. I will say it again. 30 👏 is 👏 not 👏 old!!!
Not even close
We are legion.
love the video, pearl and x have always been very interesting to me!!
@@itsjustj9668 I'm excited for the follow up
Have you ever watched invader zim? It's a pretty cool show.
I've found peace with most aspects of life. Like Death or Maybe having to be alone but what gives me an existential crisis is suffering from poverty. Our society does not care if you are not able to afford the cost of living. Sure you might live to be 80yrs old? but it doesn't matter if our society REQUIRES you to pay a certain amount in order to live the most basic quality of life. That amount is getting more and more unaffordable for even the lowest living standards. That CREEPS me out. That our society is so harsh to someone who can't come up with a couple thousand dollars per month.. It's instantly OH Well sucks for them.. There's no resources that truly help someone stuck in poverty. Our society points and complains about the homeless issue (which is understandable) but how can we not take a step back & CONSIDER that this might reflect a deeper problem in our Society? I wish more than anything else in this world, that we could find a way to help the people stuck in poverty because once in poverty, it's very unlikely to ever fully get out and escape poverty. If we had some way of helping them, it could trickle down to other aspects of our society. Money can go to landlords, property owners, shops, corporations, insurance companies, towns, taxes, banks, etc. but if we just continue to let people in poverty be completely isolated, then we are increasing the amount of people who struggle to fit into society and we will see these effects trickle down throughout our society and economy as a whole. Like an ecosystem. So thinking about that gives me the most dread because I've always lived right on the edge of holding it together. It's also very stressful because it's so obvious how it's negatively affecting our society. Yet NOTHING is being done about improving these issues. Logically you'd think our government would want to improve these things but idk?
Anyways, after considering all of this, i just can't help but wish that people could be able to live their lives at the most basic level of living without so much stress, restrictions, demands forced upon them. I just wish our society could at least have SOMETHING for those who deal with poverty but are good people and are willing to do, help, try anything. (I get it if someone is being an unwilling, negative, unhelpful person.. I understand that's a separate issue) That shouldn't get in the way of the other people who are willing to try and do things to at least get to live a basic life.. but right now our society provides no options, nothing and this freaks me out. Finland at least is trying somethings. While here Life is getting more and more unaffordable. Requirements for renting and jobs are getting more and more challenging. It just adds up to make everything more and more difficult to fulfill... I just don't think this is how we should have to run our society. I'm not against capitalism at all. It's just certain things can get out of control and i really think the way our modern society functions has become so dysfunctional and getting more and more unattainable for the average person and it freaks me out that no one is doing anything about this... This is what gives me an existential crisis. (sorry for venting. Being poor sucks)
Logically there is no reason for them to want to improve any of that, they are incentivized to keep down anyone not in the top 10%, we feed them. Gonna be their turn soon, don't eat babies
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Personally, I don't worry of getting old. I just hope my body holds up well over time. Don't wanna get to the old part if I cant function yah know?
Same here honestly
Semi doomed myself with multiple sports and ballet all at once. my knees n toes are far older than my age. xD
Here you go: Good luck final girl. I hope you get what you deserve. No one’s gonna to do your job for you …After all that’s not how this thing works..
Thank you, see you soon.
Nah, i dont believe in age
You will
Nuh-uh
I’M HERE I’M HERE SORRY I’M LATE EVERYONE
🥭
Only 2682 to go
We are legion 🍤
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@@danielprofeta oh yeah, keep that power trip going!
You find interesting movies I never heard of.Keep up your homework and look forward to your future work👏👍
Thanks for watching my friend!!
i offer you two cheese cubes and a pepperoni slice. hope this suffices. we are lesion
i feel like the “fear of aging” message is usually shown through the perspective of a young, beautiful protagonist. seeing X’s own (dismissal) twist on that is interesting!!
I couldn't enjoy X because it had to make the victims way too dumb for it to work. Was there any need to make it be in the 70's and not another time, like the 50's or something? People who watched it will know why I'm suggesting something like that.
On the other hand, Pearl is great, much better premise all around.