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The Men Who Couldn't Stop Crying, and Other Unbearable Realities

🕑 Added 2021-08-04 14:23:00 +0000 UTC

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Amazing video. I really enjoy how you articulate your thoughts about visual media- I think how you connect them to written stories via shared themes is what really gets me (for lack of better word). I love your videos about video games, and sometimes I'd think "oh man, if he were to make a video with film as that visual medium, I bet it would be great". The way you talked about a play, a film, a radio broadcast, and... everything about the Illiad, it came together so well. And to top it off you didn't just scratch the surface with any of them, the extensive research and analysis that you do really shows in this video.

Trevor, Vanquisher

This was extremely good, thank u for making it

This is the direction you need to go, that youtube needs to go; talking about bold stuff, about energy, about poetry, about life, about life in video games and video games in life, about art & self looking at art. That's what needed

Suzanne Schenewerk

So rad! Thank you for this.

this is strangely relevant to the readings I was doing today! there's an interesting connection between the Iliad and the first story about the men who couldn't stop crying: in book 8 of the Odyssey, Odysseus hears an oral poet sing of the Trojan War. When the poet sings of Odysseus' own role in the sack of Troy, Odysseus breaks down weeping. His tears are compared to that of a woman weeping while her city is razed--Colin Macleod points out that it's as if, through the poem he hears, Odysseus is experiencing the suffering he has helped cause. ANYWAY i loved this video so much and i know i'm going to be thinking about it for a long time <3

Enargea......I'll have to think about that more

That word has such a...i mean i......its like....i can't define it. Its undefineable. To try to define it would feel as if I had to hit a 200ft dinnger in the same spot in a same ball park anytime I went to bat. The word IS a ballpark, it feels

Max Goldstein

With about a paragraph to go I realized: wait, has this whole thing been one shot?

Love what you did with the lighting in this video. Particularly the red background and lightning for the Memorial reading; it added an appropriately powerful energy!