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The Legacy of ‘Attack on Titan’ - War, Human Nature, and the Illusion of Peace | Video Essay
In this video I will be exploring Attack on Titan's portrayal of war, human nature, and the illusion of peace.
I hope you enjoy!
I will be switching to more frequent uploads in 2025, I'm looking forward to seeing you there!
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I hope you enjoy this video as they are two of my favourite Hong Kong films. Stick around if you can, as there are many more videos on the way. Dir: Wong Kar Wai Films: Fallen Angels (1995), Chungking Express (1994) Thanks to @AccentedCinema for the inspiration to make this video.
Early 2000s Japanese Horror Films - The Terror of Technology and Fear of the Future | Video Essay
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In this video I explore technology and the cultural zeitgeist of early 2000s Japan, through Japanese horror. I hope you enjoy this video as it is a passion project of mine! Films: Ju-On: The Curse (2000) Pulse (2001) Dark Water (2002) One Missed Call (2003)
The Stoic Face of Night City - How Cyberpunk 2077 Presents Legend vs Reality | Video Essay
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In this video I will be exploring how Cyberpunk 2077 presents Night City. Along with the concept of legend vs reality, as many facets of Cyberpunk's world portray this idea (I also want to thank you all so much for the heartwarming response to my first video - it is my first attempt at creating a video essay and it made me truly happy to see that everyone enjoyed it. There are many more videos ...
A World Out of Balance - Exploring Avatar the Last Airbender and Breath of the Wild | Video Essay
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I want to end this video by reiterating my appreciation for these two works. In recent years Avatar and Breath of the Wild have garnered a lot of attention. Especially with the release of Tears of the Kingdom and Netflix’s live-action Avatar the Last Airbender, along with plans for future animated films based around team-avatar. It’s safe to say these two worlds have garnered a lot of excitemen...

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  • @Technology_Mane
    @Technology_Mane 9 днів тому

    Man... What a sad sad ending... I just finished it yesterday. It left me just angry... I wish it would have ended differently, but this is an amazing analogy on how cruel and violent we are as a human race. I would've loved Mikasa yo just live happy with Eren. It was such a tragedy.

  • @ekadria-bo4962
    @ekadria-bo4962 9 днів тому

    I can subtitute all that with "NieR" and just fine. In less that 1 weak i got a booty, a tragedy, an emotion rollercoster and "oppresion" of dream. Why AoT is overhyped?

  • @ekadria-bo4962
    @ekadria-bo4962 9 днів тому

    AoT is about in title: Why the song "Vidinamel sekaiyahu-- " is playing?

  • @iyeding
    @iyeding 10 днів тому

    Loved this video 🔥

  • @shadydetective9285
    @shadydetective9285 11 днів тому

    "We are no better than the ants. No, we are far worse!" - HunterxHunter

  • @Aot
    @Aot 12 днів тому

    I don't believe Aot has a singular core message. It has many. Depicting freedom in different ways. it deomstrates that conflict is nature and that no matter what age we find ourselves a part of, human needs and desire is innate and infinite in us as humans. The unjust treatment Ymir Fritz found herself in has repeated in many different ways over and over. Mikasa herself was about to be sold by the slavers. Eren has freedoms taken as a child, Eldians in Marley have their rights taken, just like the marleyans had suffered under Eldian tyranny. Human desire and nature is why we even have laws to combat our darker side of human nature. Is it easier to view those brought up in suffering and grow up to become broken and hostile or just be born with admirable traits? What do we do to tame those that naturally carry the darker sides of human nature further? Even outside of our own nature... humans endlessly must fight for resources, ideals, and their sense of justice to give their own lives a sense of fabricated value. If not, many people and cultures become disillusioned. The paradox of peace is that there must be conflict to feel or understand peace. Peace on its own is still not possible, to live is to partake in conflict. If we don't, we die, or we allow others to bloody their hands for what we need to live. Attack on Titan shows war and conflict and critiques it without rejecting it. To be human is to cause conflict. To be human is to wish for peace from our own inability to diverge from causing conflict. Someone like Armin actively tries to promote peace until all he can do is fight when peace does not offer him or those around him a viable solution to progress. Aggressive pacifism is sometimes just as cruel as heading into the conflict. At least you're no unguarded and ignorant of the darkness everyone has in them, this isn't to say pacifism is null of value, it simply does not correspond for larger groups, usually relies on like mindedness. Aot could never end in a way the conflict doesn't return and settle again.

  • @birdduck3314
    @birdduck3314 13 днів тому

    Aot is aot

  • @joshholleran9005
    @joshholleran9005 13 днів тому

    Thank God people are appreciating this damn story again.

  • @dhbomb
    @dhbomb 13 днів тому

    The “nations built on conflict” part of this video sounds a lot like Israel

    • @Brandon-a-writer
      @Brandon-a-writer 11 днів тому

      and america. and pakistan. all modern christian nations … saudi arabia … iraq … iran … etc etc etc.

  • @scubed9227
    @scubed9227 13 днів тому

    OMG, that's the exact same line of thinking I thought of before going to sleep yesterday night & today morning I'm recommended a video which begins with that. ('Peace is the delay of war')... I was pondering about it based on impactful lines said by 2 characters from AoT & Naruto. AoT : Sergeant Gross - 'Peace can be a wonderful thing, but something about it is lacking. People actually want to see cruelty.' Naruto : (spoiler alert for the uninitiated) Pein - 'Humans are not the most intelligent creatures. This is the only way that peace can be achieved. And after several decades, that pain too will eventually fade with time. It will no longer be a deterrent and humanity will begin to battle once more. This time, they themselves will use this weapon against one another and reconfirm what true pain is. And then peace will be restored again, for a time. In the course of this endless cycle of hatred... pain will give rise to momentary peace. That is my dream'

  • @MrRirate
    @MrRirate 16 днів тому

    Illusion of freedom.

  • @talkingnart1563
    @talkingnart1563 16 днів тому

    Lovely video, I learned a couple new things from it! I wish your channel the best

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 16 днів тому

      I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!!

  • @MikasaPadhan
    @MikasaPadhan 16 днів тому

    We have to admit every journey has an end but war is not a journey, it's a tragedy and tragedy never ends in human life.❤ Fabulous video

  • @youngstatic520
    @youngstatic520 17 днів тому

    Please keep making video essays abt aot ts is fabulous

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 17 днів тому

      @@youngstatic520 I will definitely make another aot video in the future! Very happy you enjoyed it :)

  • @mrasel-006
    @mrasel-006 20 днів тому

    When Eren Kruger appears, he tells Grisha to "save Mikasa and Armin." That indicates history repeats itself.

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 20 днів тому

      @@mrasel-006 absolutely, the Attack Titan itself can be seen as this cycle of war

    • @MrRirate
      @MrRirate 16 днів тому

      that indicates Eren send him partial memories

  • @postcody3860
    @postcody3860 2 місяці тому

    great video, two of my fav films :))))

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 2 місяці тому

      Very Happy you enjoyed! Great taste in films too!!

  • @user-et6xw6fu1q
    @user-et6xw6fu1q 4 місяці тому

    Excellent analysis, you are deserving of many more subs! I’m looking forward to more of your work and I wish you much success!

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 4 місяці тому

      Thank you so much!! I really appreciate your kind comment

  • @Descreett
    @Descreett 4 місяці тому

    What was the mocies used on this video

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 4 місяці тому

      Movies I used were: Dark Water, Ju-On The Curse, Pulse, and One Missed Call . I mixed in some other archival footage too

    • @Descreett
      @Descreett 4 місяці тому

      @@TheArtofStoryArc which one was the one with the boy scene

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 4 місяці тому

      It's this one: ua-cam.com/video/3dy9RiDK60A/v-deo.htmlsi=_24cAiAOSJ4nJWZZ

  • @Mirai8
    @Mirai8 4 місяці тому

    Fantastic video! You have some serious skills, can't wait to see more videos in the future.

  • @eparigon
    @eparigon 5 місяців тому

    the silent hill music throughout was so calming and made me lock in even further tbh

    • @eparigon
      @eparigon 5 місяців тому

      fantastic video. very insightful and educational.

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 5 місяців тому

      Thanks so much , I really appreciate you watching!! Glad you enjoyed

    • @eparigon
      @eparigon 5 місяців тому

      @@TheArtofStoryArc no, thank you!

  • @zoro115-s6b
    @zoro115-s6b 9 місяців тому

    I think one interesting point of contrast of these stories is that Avatar's threat and protagonist are both more humanized. Aang is the Avatar, but he's also his own person with his own desires and fears. Similarly, the fire nation, for all their evil and destruction, are ultimately just people. People capable of incredible cruelty and malice, but still human. By contrast, Gannon is a supernatural force of destruction. He isn't an invading army or a cruel empire, he is simply a calamity. And to almost the same degree, Link feels like a force of nature as well, silently and relentlessly pursuing the defeat of Gannon and restoration of balance. We get enough glimpses of his inner life to know he has one, but they're few and far between. I don't say this as a criticism, rather, I think this inhumanity enhances the story that BoTW is telling. Hyrule is *old*. The guardians and other sheika technology are ten thousand years old, and throughout the game we find things, many of them referencing events in previous games, that are much older. Like Aang, Link and Zelda reincarnate, fighting in every lifetime to defeat evil and restore balance. BoTW focuses more on what that actually means. This battle against Gannon is just one chapter in a war that will go on forever. I think that's part of the melancholy and beauty of BoTW's world of crumbling ruins being reclaimed by nature. Whether we win or lose this battle, it won't be the last one. The war will go on. But, it's still worth fighting, because even if evil will always come back, we can still always rise to meet it and beat it back for another day.

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 9 місяців тому

      Really interesting insight! Really like your point about Link acting as a force of nature, persuing the defeat of Gannon. Link is definitely akin to a reactionary push against the calamity. Whereas, like you say, Aang has his own fears and desires, he begins his heroes journey more reluctantly. Thanks for your comment!!

  • @Hyrotis
    @Hyrotis 10 місяців тому

    An absolutley beautiful video, i'm so glad it found it's way to my recommended, amazing job

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 10 місяців тому

      That means alot! Thank you for the support!

  • @mattlimoli6601
    @mattlimoli6601 10 місяців тому

    when i finished the video i looked at your sub count and was surprised! you deserve so many more. this video was so well crafted and incorporated two of my favorite things so ofc i had to watch it. keep it up dude!🎉

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 10 місяців тому

      Thank you for your encouragement!! Means the world to me!

  • @Pajarocaro
    @Pajarocaro 10 місяців тому

    I loved this video, never thought about the connections in this two stories. Great job :D

  • @iLLadelph267
    @iLLadelph267 10 місяців тому

    okay UA-cam, you've finally understood that i love these 2 franchises, but i never thought to talk about them together 😮 great recommendation! great video!

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 10 місяців тому

      Happy to know you enjoyed!! Much appreciated

  • @booklover4843
    @booklover4843 10 місяців тому

    Great video!! Can tell you put a lot of thought into the script and editing. Well done, and keep it up ☺️

    • @TheArtofStoryArc
      @TheArtofStoryArc 10 місяців тому

      Thank you so much! Really happy you enjoyed it!!