Logically speaking life is absurd but Suicide is not at all logically connected to it, Suicide is an emotional response to the absurd. And if you think about it a series of logical arithmetic with the information you have led you the conclusion of absurd and Suicide . Similarly it is possible some event,information, relationship emotion might somehow mitigate the suicidal response to absurd And that is what I'm chasing.
wish if we could study whatever we like not what market demand but honestly there is nothing I want to go very deep into I mostly lose interest when it become like chore although I’m interested in many things but I don't like doing one thing especially when it become repetitive I need constant stimulation
@@mohammed88airthen dont, you wont achieve much, but youll enjoy your time on earth more, unless you think youre missing out on achieving something greater than becoming a jack of all trades but a master of none
I agree with @voiboi405 !! can we read it? I am close to finishing my degree in literature/writing and would love to see your take! Granted, I've not seen trainspotting but am an avid Camus fan!
Rebelling and choosing life is the only way to escape the dread and depression brought by the realisation that nothing matters in the grand scheme of things..... I appreciate this video a lot
I've never watched this movie in full, but come across videos like this pretty often. The title "Trainspotting" alone fills me with a sense of bitter sorrow. Trainspotting is such a frivolous activity. It captures the imagination and enthousiasm of a small child, able to experience wonder and excitement at something as simple as watching trains pass by. That, juxtaposed against the numbness and harsh reality of drug addiction is just gut-wrenching to me.
There's some more background to the title! It's in reference to a scene in the book where they visit the abandoned railway station that once serviced the whole city. There they meet Begbie's homeless father, who jokingly asks if they're doing some trainspotting. It's also about the destruction of the buildings we live in and the services we rely on, leaving just the shells of what could once have been called a society.
The difference between the child watching the train and the adult is that the adult has the disillusion of raw reality while the child still see reality with his inner imaginative part
I think there's also a pretty big historical perspective to take since it takes place in Scotland in the late 80s; the protagonist going ''choose a job, a television, etc'' and ''it's shit being Scottish'' seems to echo with the zeitgeist that came with the Thatcher years and the dissolution of the social sphere of the UK around that time. There's a push toward a form of individualism that isolates people and creates pretty meaningless existences, where attempts at chasing a successful comfortable life just lead toward a form of conformism that's akin to an absurd existence. There's no goal beyond your personal financial success (as per the words of Thatcher, 'there's no society, there are only individuals'), meaning that your freedom under this new system is limited to your consumption choices. There are different moments where the movie depicts other forms of consumption as being akin to taking drugs, and the main character decries that at points too. ''Choosing life'' there expresses a form of alienation where your agency over your life has been lost and reduced to merely chasing pleasure, so it makes sense that you end up with characters like those in the movie. It's not just that they're fighting the inherent absurd condition of existence, but also that their life has been emptied of meaning by the system they're a part of, they're like a symptom of a society that's shite to live in and where all you can aspire to is to find things to consume.
@@azaraniichan Honestly kinda feel bad because I thought I was dragging the video too long if I were to write a bit more about that mentality of consumerism and its effects in the depicted era. Great thought man!
@@kantar007 it would have made for a different subject that may not have been fitting with the interpretation of absurdist themes so that makes sense, plus it works perfectly well so there isn't anything illegitimate about it (also the editing is very sick btw !)
@@azaraniichan i know you dont mean it in thisnkind of context but of course thatcher was right society and all forms of celectives like corporations and states are abstractions all that exist is individual stuck with their expirience of reality for me you dont realy exist as i csnt feel your feelings etc. Any form of colectivist thought is thus inherently incompatiable with how we percive reality
I never thought about the inherent absurdity of insisting one approach was "choosing life" and the other wasn't in the context of the inherent hedonism of thatcher's neoliberal individualist wave. Good shout
The thing about Rent Boy hating his friends... Well that is usually kind of how it goes. When I was an active drug addict who hung out with other junkies I hated almost all of my friends. We all disliked each other and hung out because it didn't matter who was sitting next to you getting high with you because atleast it was someone. And I hated myself too so how could I have liked people who were just like me? Real friendships among drug addicts are very rare. Most are based on needs, maybe your "friend" deals speed and you sell some of his drugs for him so you get a free point, maybe this other friend is good at stealing so you hang out with him because when he steals alcohol he shares it with you. And when I had no money or drugs I was almost always either alone or with one addict friend trying to come up with money, but when I did happen to have drugs and money all of a sudden I had lots of friends who wanted to hang out. I'm so glad I stopped shooting up and I am even more grateful for the fact I don't hang out with people like that anymore. Sure there were fun times especially when we were teenagers but overall that life is not a good life, it sucks and it fucks you up and leaves you with so much trauma and problems.
One time a couple years ago one of my friends said “we’re just a couple dudes who like to get high together, aren’t we,” and at the time it bothered me but eventually I had to agree with him. And that will haunt me for a long time.
Well I used the criterion edition which I think is just the movie upscaled or something and I also export in 4k out of premiere for like hours on end haha
Greeting from Taiwan, My mother recommended me to watch Trainspotting four years ago, honestly I did not have positive impression toward the film initially, but it somehow stay in my heart. And as I grow, I begin to feel the meaning of the movie: better school, better job, better salary, better partner, better friendship, better government, better moral standard... It's always being better, then suddenly the film appear in my mind. This film might not serve a pupose for entertaining its audience, but it definitely teach audience to reflect on their own ideas, decisions, emotions... etc. And your video, man, the Camus's three action after acknowledging the absurdity. IT'S DEFINITELY DAWN ON ME. Thanks, bro.
@@kantar007 tbh to truly get a full picture of well written movies u gotta see it twice, once to discover the plot and the 2nd time to fully connect the dots
Banger video, bruh. You are so correct about us taking this conversation for granted. Im 29 and im just realizing how fucking important it is to stay busy and live in the moment (choosing life.) No matter how mundane the task is, stay busy. Chasing dopamine will f you up. Stay busy and stay up, my friends.
It’s INSANE to think I watched this movie like 20 years ago as a teenager and yet how much of its underlying message “subconsciously imprinted” upon me going into adulthood.
i can't believe this, my favourite movie of all time being spoken of in the same breath as my favourite philosopher and way of thinking. you articulated why i love trainspottings absurdist themes, you''ve earned a subscriber !
thanks man, that was really the thinking behind it. One of my favorite films and my favorite philosopher and how they collide, it was fun to make and I’m glad other likeminded people like you enjoyed it
The mic quality is pretty fine compared to your first two videos and your editing is clean. Id love to hear more about social commentary and media analysis from you because you do some lovely analysis on it. keep it up!
I never leave comments but i have to say thank you for making this. I so wish there was more acknowledgement of this truths and their consequences. Choose free will.
As a 45 year old man whose been through the wormhole of life and come out the other end in metaphysical rebellion let me just say its very nice out here y'all. Come on in the water's fine.
i have seen trainspotting and read Camus' The Fall and The Outsider at two very different points in my life and have always held both of them very close to me since i first came across them. and still, the connection was never made. it is crazy how as your video goes in more and more of what i knew is now seen where i obviously couldn't before :))), thanks also 6:29 such a beautiful way to put it :)
Oh man, I really liked the video. I haven't studied philosophy at all besides what was mandatory in high school, but I've always found it interesting. Hope you make more of this. Edit: about the audio, it sounds better than a lot of channels and the volume seems good. In my opinion, your current setup is good for until you decide to spend 150$+ on a decent mic (and possibly an external audio interface). What you could do now for free is apply EQ to your voice, if you're not doing that already.
Thank you for the explanation. I watched this the other week for the first time and was just too swept up in the style and music from the movie. It is truly a masterclass in fashion, but now I love it for the meaning as well.
Both are based on books by great authors, but Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh) did come 3 years before Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk). That being said, both come to similar conclusions on the absurdity of life, though Jack's story from fight club spirals into something more grandiose and destructive than Renton's, as his is more personal and positive by story's end. After watching this video, though, I definitely think that both of these stories are two sides of the same coin. When absurdity is embraced, you can either use it to elevate yourself like Renton, or drag everyone else down to you like Jack.
Trainspotting feels more real. To me the movie says "do not look back, nostalgia will suffocate you." Whereas fight club is more dystopian and comments on male loneliness and the dark paths those echo chambers can lead to.
Ran across your video and had never seen Trainspotting, never even really heard of absurdism either. Really loved the movie and I love it because it feels so real. And it gets its point across without being too intense (like fight club). And doesn’t tell you how to live your life, it tells you to accept it.
That sounds like conforming but with extra steps. Reminds me of Kierkegaard's development through blind faith into true faith, its still faith but instead of passive acceptance, its his new sense desperation that wills him to believe.
To be honest, to a certain extent you could probably make a case for most mentalities or philosophies to be conformist (unless you’re like an anarchist or dadaist or something). At the end of the day I think people should take what works best for them from every philosophy while maintaining some reasonable morals and discard what they think is bollocks from said philosophy/mentality. Thanks for the thought though man
Near death experiences reinvigorate the appreciation of life. If you can squeeze in a bit of thrill or danger inbetween the mundane, your life would be full. Examples may be skydiving, parkour, high intensity tag, group hunting, skiing or anything novel. And those are just the legal options...
Personally I fight, I do MMA and spar at high intensity which literally leaves your hands shaking after and it pumps you full of adrenaline but sometimes I do some other dumb stuff as well lol
i don't need to risk my life to understand that eternal non-existence is a worse option if comparing it to existence, but that doesn't make existence good
@@LOLHAXGUN because unlike religious stuff, it has at least a little basis, because it's proven that you - your brain, nonthing more than that, no soul and other nonsense like energy and whatever else therefore, once you're dead - you're no longer exist and never will exist ever again, everything else is just a copium and inability to accept this harsh reality
Great video. I think Absurdism is mere anthropomorphizing. Which means "To ascribe human characteristics to things not human." This is why, I believe, Socrates said that the only wisdom is knowing that I know nothing. This life is a mystery, nobody knows who we are and why we are here. The mistake, or the human tragedy is that we need a comforting answer to everything. I think the industrial society has granted so much privilege to individual that many of us suffer from paralysis analysis. Thought seems to be the root of the problem. Human today is more left-brain hemisphere oriented than before. This can be connected to the idea that we have become ever more analytical, and suffer from overthinking. We think so much we think there's nothing else to life. When there's no spaciousness in the mind, there is no order and no possibility to observe with clarity. Freedom is when there is no self-interest at all. But for many of us our sense of self is too strong that there is attachment, and we're satisfied with the "choose life" mediocrity, forms of escapes and the life which is a cycle of pleasure and fear. My point is that many of us are preoccupied with thinking so that we never truly look or listen, so we develop all kinds of ideas and beliefs. Truth is a pathless land.. But many of us are confused and begin to look for answers externally, forgetting what is inside you.
Was captured by the name of the video, started watching and understood there was a movie, stopped watching, took me couple weeks to find the time to see the movie and after i've seen, amazing view of the philosophy behind it, thank you very much!
I'd say the important part is that it's very easy to "choose life" when you have a bag of money on your back... I see that as a message. Too many of us are thrown into life by those who can't even take care of themselves, a child of such people won't chose life most of the time, unless God has decided to give them special talents. Everything in life boils down to luck, if you don't believe that, you haven't thought it through.
True, but I also think that Renton taking that bag of money for himself was a part of him "choosing life". He didn't have the big bag of money, but it was there, and he took it. he chose that path instead of letting his shithead abusive friends get it. Very good point regardless, it's always easy to say "choose life" when you have the cash, but I just wanted to look a bit deeper at it and make my own point on the matter.
i believe luck is a myth, i believe randomness is a myth, hear me out… look into nature and life until you begin to see the patterns, patterns, patterns, things that seem “random” on one level always make sense when you can zoom out, you begin to see the perfection, the symmetry, the “intelligence” behind it all.. i’m not claiming this as absolute truth, but it is in my reality.. even if it’s not true outside yourself, if you take on this mindset of everything having meaning and everything being perfect, INCLUDING the hardship, the pain, the confusion, if you accept it all as purposeful, then all u have to do is find the purpose, the reason for it all, it could appear in an infinite amount of ways but these principles always apply.. find the reason for your suffering and let it fuel you, let it serve as nutrients to help you grow, whether it be physically, mentally, or spiritually.. it really comes down to a victim mentality vs a student mentality. the victim sees their hardships as meaningless and horrible, nothing good can come from this mindset.. the student sees his hardships as lessons, teachers, clues and hints, he transmutes his pain into growth, and ultimately this growth leads to Love.. it’s alchemy, and anyone can do it. ❤❤ wishing u the best
"Everything in life boils down to luck" Not true. If you miss your bus in the morning you aren't out of luck, you just haven't left your house early enough to catch the bus. You can get "lucky" in life (get job offers you actually want, get with a girl you like) but you need to be prepared for those occasions. Have a good enough CV, have good enough looks and be more social etc. "Choosing life" in this context takes hard HARD work. And yes, VERY rarely will you ever have a bag of cash just landing on your lap. But Renton at the start of the movie would have blown it all anyway.
Logically speaking life is absurd but Suicide is not at all logically connected to it, Suicide is an emotional response to the absurd. And if you think about it a series of logical arithmetic with the information you have led you the conclusion of absurd and Suicide . Similarly it is possible some event,information, relationship emotion might somehow mitigate the suicidal response to absurd And that is what I'm chasing.
As someone who has gone through opiate withdrawal more times than I can count I can say that the things he saw weren't nightmares. They had to have been hallucinations because the worst aspect of withdrawal is that you are not sleeping, at all. If you have a bunch of benzos then you can sleep or maybe some type of heavy sedative but even that can backfire. I took a Seroquel one night during withdrawal, a drug that I could never stay awake on, but all it did was make the inability to get comfortable even worse but no sleep at all. It's something you can't escape from via sleep and anyone who has insomnia can testify lack of sleep makes everything worse.
@@jamesstaggs4160 thank you, I actually had no idea if that scene was an over exageration or dream sequence or hallucinations so I just wrote down what I thought it was
im so glad i watched this- i forgot how much Camus’ work influenced my thinking lol i haven’t seen this movie since i was like 19 or so, and i never figured out why he hung out with those horrible people he called ‘friends’ lol. this was excellent, i appreciate this video. thank you
6:30. Isn't that what our ancestors did for thousands of years. Rebelled against our Circumstances. Being to stubborn to accept them. Always kept on pushing for a better life which lead us to where we are today. The same stubbornness caveman used to battle saberthooths we are using to wake up every morning and go to our jobs.
@nothanks9503 That's the Spirit brother, proud of you 🙏 I currently work in engineering but I am slowly shifting towards a more social work field. Next to my job I work with a group of youth. That work is so much more fulfilling and it feels that every second I spend there actually does a change for the better. Eventually I want to become a teacher. That is my purpose. Just gotta keep pushing brother
Must be my fav movie of all time. Once i didn't have nothing else entertainment than dvd of this and played with ps3 every morning over a winter before school.
I choose life because I feel like I owe a certain amount of debt to any individual in my life who has helped me and that I am not allowed to die until I have at least fulfilled that. I may not care about anything but they do.
I wouldn't describe it better. This is my favorite film so far! I also love the fact that this film (and book too) has an another tier of mockery to is the Imperialsm and Britain's efforts to forcing their culture to Scotland. That's one of the morals that why our characters use drugs. Resisting to numbing and conquering culture of Britain. Although... yeah they numbing themselves again. I read this on a site, I don't it's officially true or not. But to me it's quite possible.
Trainspotting is a great depiction of the blend of wholesome and degenerate. Drug use isn't just crack houses and nightmares. It's mixed in with good memories, friends, heartfelt moments and real emotion. Unfortunately that's just the good half, the rest is addiction, betrayal, hopelessness and horrors beyond comprehension.
This opening and closing monologue of that film has been burned into my brain since I was 14 This book and film has had a major impact on me Thank you Irvine welsh
Did a little deep dive because I was curious. There is a bot driven campaign to market this book in various UA-cam comment sections. Don't buy this book.
There's also T2, the sequel in which they're basically 20 years older and Renton returns to Edimburgh, just to find out that things are quite the same. Still, it's also a great movie, even if not essential it's pretty good.
thanks, a lot of people asked me if I would do a video on the second one as well, but I genuinely don’t know what meaningful commentary I could bring to it
well this video came out of nowhere. Im jobless with no real future or any idea what job i should choose cuz every workplace is the same boring stuck in one place shit that i dont want to do anymore infact i dont want to do nothing anymore......just live with nothing to worry about.
sorry for the shit mic you guys lol
p.s. if you do have criticism please do comment, I truly wanna make the best video essays I can, thanks
I don’t have any criticism I like your view on the subject and I think the tone of your mic/voice suits the type of video very well, great job !
When you're speaking on the absurd you have nothing to be sorry for king
thank you guys!
Logically speaking life is absurd but Suicide is not at all logically connected to it, Suicide is an emotional response to the absurd.
And if you think about it a series of logical arithmetic with the information you have led you the conclusion of absurd and Suicide .
Similarly it is possible some event,information, relationship emotion might somehow mitigate the suicidal response to absurd And that is what I'm chasing.
love the video, about the mic you can try something like DIY pop filter if you dont have one.
UA-cam recommendations really cooked today
really glad you liked it bro!
what is it with 300 subs ppls taking off running like this
Pull out and cum on my tummy
Your brain is cooked..
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i studied philosophy at university and wrote my dissertation on absurdism and existentialism in trainspotting- great video dude
thanks so much man that means a lot to me! I can only hope these videos I make can help me with film university as well when I get there haha
wish if we could study whatever we like not what market demand but honestly there is nothing I want to go very deep into I mostly lose interest when it become like chore although I’m interested in many things but I don't like doing one thing especially when it become repetitive I need constant stimulation
@@mohammed88airthen dont, you wont achieve much, but youll enjoy your time on earth more, unless you think youre missing out on achieving something greater than becoming a jack of all trades but a master of none
Can we read it???
I agree with @voiboi405 !! can we read it? I am close to finishing my degree in literature/writing and would love to see your take! Granted, I've not seen trainspotting but am an avid Camus fan!
Rebelling and choosing life is the only way to escape the dread and depression brought by the realisation that nothing matters in the grand scheme of things..... I appreciate this video a lot
@@Phantoww thank you!
Don't want to disappoint mom tho...
@@kantar007 can you do a video on fear and loathing in los angeles...never saw one and i really think it needs one
I've never watched this movie in full, but come across videos like this pretty often.
The title "Trainspotting" alone fills me with a sense of bitter sorrow. Trainspotting is such a frivolous activity. It captures the imagination and enthousiasm of a small child, able to experience wonder and excitement at something as simple as watching trains pass by. That, juxtaposed against the numbness and harsh reality of drug addiction is just gut-wrenching to me.
I see so many great thoughts in the comments that never even came across my mind while writing this essay, that's a really good one man!
definitely watch the whole movie
train spotting, people also kill themselves in a close enough manner.
There's some more background to the title! It's in reference to a scene in the book where they visit the abandoned railway station that once serviced the whole city. There they meet Begbie's homeless father, who jokingly asks if they're doing some trainspotting.
It's also about the destruction of the buildings we live in and the services we rely on, leaving just the shells of what could once have been called a society.
The difference between the child watching the train and the adult is that the adult has the disillusion of raw reality while the child still see reality with his inner imaginative part
I think there's also a pretty big historical perspective to take since it takes place in Scotland in the late 80s; the protagonist going ''choose a job, a television, etc'' and ''it's shit being Scottish'' seems to echo with the zeitgeist that came with the Thatcher years and the dissolution of the social sphere of the UK around that time.
There's a push toward a form of individualism that isolates people and creates pretty meaningless existences, where attempts at chasing a successful comfortable life just lead toward a form of conformism that's akin to an absurd existence. There's no goal beyond your personal financial success (as per the words of Thatcher, 'there's no society, there are only individuals'), meaning that your freedom under this new system is limited to your consumption choices.
There are different moments where the movie depicts other forms of consumption as being akin to taking drugs, and the main character decries that at points too. ''Choosing life'' there expresses a form of alienation where your agency over your life has been lost and reduced to merely chasing pleasure, so it makes sense that you end up with characters like those in the movie. It's not just that they're fighting the inherent absurd condition of existence, but also that their life has been emptied of meaning by the system they're a part of, they're like a symptom of a society that's shite to live in and where all you can aspire to is to find things to consume.
@@azaraniichan Honestly kinda feel bad because I thought I was dragging the video too long if I were to write a bit more about that mentality of consumerism and its effects in the depicted era. Great thought man!
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@@kantar007 it would have made for a different subject that may not have been fitting with the interpretation of absurdist themes so that makes sense, plus it works perfectly well so there isn't anything illegitimate about it (also the editing is very sick btw !)
@@azaraniichan i know you dont mean it in thisnkind of context but of course thatcher was right society and all forms of celectives like corporations and states are abstractions all that exist is individual stuck with their expirience of reality for me you dont realy exist as i csnt feel your feelings etc. Any form of colectivist thought is thus inherently incompatiable with how we percive reality
I never thought about the inherent absurdity of insisting one approach was "choosing life" and the other wasn't in the context of the inherent hedonism of thatcher's neoliberal individualist wave. Good shout
I love it. Whenever I open these type of videos I head straight down to the comments. So many interesting people having interesting stuff to say.
The thing about Rent Boy hating his friends... Well that is usually kind of how it goes. When I was an active drug addict who hung out with other junkies I hated almost all of my friends. We all disliked each other and hung out because it didn't matter who was sitting next to you getting high with you because atleast it was someone. And I hated myself too so how could I have liked people who were just like me? Real friendships among drug addicts are very rare. Most are based on needs, maybe your "friend" deals speed and you sell some of his drugs for him so you get a free point, maybe this other friend is good at stealing so you hang out with him because when he steals alcohol he shares it with you. And when I had no money or drugs I was almost always either alone or with one addict friend trying to come up with money, but when I did happen to have drugs and money all of a sudden I had lots of friends who wanted to hang out.
I'm so glad I stopped shooting up and I am even more grateful for the fact I don't hang out with people like that anymore. Sure there were fun times especially when we were teenagers but overall that life is not a good life, it sucks and it fucks you up and leaves you with so much trauma and problems.
One time a couple years ago one of my friends said “we’re just a couple dudes who like to get high together, aren’t we,” and at the time it bothered me but eventually I had to agree with him. And that will haunt me for a long time.
@@skywalkeronthesun I remember having similar conversations with some of my "friends" too.
Ngl this is the most clearest and crispest footage of Trainspotting, I'm actually impressed how you got this. 👍
Well I used the criterion edition which I think is just the movie upscaled or something and I also export in 4k out of premiere for like hours on end haha
*”The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.“*
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@nothanks9503 if you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make the change. 🗣
I love Trainspotting for exactly this reason. Well articulated! I'm glad I found this
@@matyasbures8248 thank you! when I finished making the video I thought the essay could have been way better, but I’m glad some people like it!
Pheeww, thought i was loosing my mind thank you holy shit
oh my gosh thank you so much man you really didnt have to yooooooooo❤️❤️❤️
Trainspotting is one of my favorite films, and the UA-cam algorithm literally did a majestic job.
Greeting from Taiwan,
My mother recommended me to watch Trainspotting four years ago, honestly I did not have positive impression toward the film initially, but it somehow stay in my heart.
And as I grow, I begin to feel the meaning of the movie: better school, better job, better salary, better partner, better friendship, better government, better moral standard...
It's always being better, then suddenly the film appear in my mind.
This film might not serve a pupose for entertaining its audience, but it definitely teach audience to reflect on their own ideas, decisions, emotions... etc.
And your video, man, the Camus's three action after acknowledging the absurdity. IT'S DEFINITELY DAWN ON ME.
Thanks, bro.
@@Arabesque_1220 thank you man!
Last time i watched trainspotting i was much too young to grasp all of this. I must watch it again
@@renaudfensie3020 Honestly had to watch it twice to really come up with a concrete essay on it, great movie.
@@kantar007 tbh to truly get a full picture of well written movies u gotta see it twice, once to discover the plot and the 2nd time to fully connect the dots
Banger video, bruh. You are so correct about us taking this conversation for granted. Im 29 and im just realizing how fucking important it is to stay busy and live in the moment (choosing life.) No matter how mundane the task is, stay busy. Chasing dopamine will f you up. Stay busy and stay up, my friends.
Thats the mindset man🙏
Nope, a mundane boring job literally takes lufe away from me. I lose my soul in the process. I get extremely depressed by boring annoying jobs
@@oranges557fax. Doing menial tasks is when I get in my head and feel depressed
okay i’m gonna choose life
conform
@@alexxx4434ok but what if I want to do something good with my life
fine, let's do this shit
It’s INSANE to think I watched this movie like 20 years ago as a teenager and yet how much of its underlying message “subconsciously imprinted” upon me going into adulthood.
i can't believe this, my favourite movie of all time being spoken of in the same breath as my favourite philosopher and way of thinking. you articulated why i love trainspottings absurdist themes, you''ve earned a subscriber !
thanks man, that was really the thinking behind it. One of my favorite films and my favorite philosopher and how they collide, it was fun to make and I’m glad other likeminded people like you enjoyed it
I really enjoyed Trainspotting every time I watched. It is really a piece of art!
The mic quality is pretty fine compared to your first two videos and your editing is clean. Id love to hear more about social commentary and media analysis from you because you do some lovely analysis on it. keep it up!
@@TrulyDelta thanks again man!!
I never leave comments but i have to say thank you for making this. I so wish there was more acknowledgement of this truths and their consequences.
Choose free will.
@@jackdure thank you man!
Playing really quiet Undertale Music in the background is a really nice touch to this masterfully crafted video
@@sebu6831 thanks man! I might actually use that if it’s copyright free
@@kantar007It was really nice if Toby to make it free of copyright
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@@Dubulcle Thanks for your resourceful contribution
As a 45 year old man whose been through the wormhole of life and come out the other end in metaphysical rebellion let me just say its very nice out here y'all. Come on in the water's fine.
i have seen trainspotting and read Camus' The Fall and The Outsider at two very different points in my life and have always held both of them very close to me since i first came across them. and still, the connection was never made. it is crazy how as your video goes in more and more of what i knew is now seen where i obviously couldn't before :))), thanks
also 6:29 such a beautiful way to put it :)
thank you!
One of the best movies ever made.
Ps. Remember me when you reach 1M subscribers! Keep going, your videos are great!
thank you! dont think I’ll get there but I’ll try nevertheless
Oh man, I really liked the video. I haven't studied philosophy at all besides what was mandatory in high school, but I've always found it interesting. Hope you make more of this.
Edit: about the audio, it sounds better than a lot of channels and the volume seems good. In my opinion, your current setup is good for until you decide to spend 150$+ on a decent mic (and possibly an external audio interface). What you could do now for free is apply EQ to your voice, if you're not doing that already.
@@acriliqueofc thank you man!
Thank you for the explanation. I watched this the other week for the first time and was just too swept up in the style and music from the movie. It is truly a masterclass in fashion, but now I love it for the meaning as well.
@@Frothy_Mead im glad you enjoyed it!
One of the best videos ive ever watched
thank you so much man!
@kantar007 always🫡
Trainspotting isn't Fight Club's little brother. Fight Club is a dumbed down version of Trainspotting.
Both are based on books by great authors, but Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh) did come 3 years before Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk). That being said, both come to similar conclusions on the absurdity of life, though Jack's story from fight club spirals into something more grandiose and destructive than Renton's, as his is more personal and positive by story's end. After watching this video, though, I definitely think that both of these stories are two sides of the same coin. When absurdity is embraced, you can either use it to elevate yourself like Renton, or drag everyone else down to you like Jack.
Trainspotting feels more real. To me the movie says "do not look back, nostalgia will suffocate you." Whereas fight club is more dystopian and comments on male loneliness and the dark paths those echo chambers can lead to.
first vid i’ve seen from you. despite already being familiar with all the camus stuff, it was still interesting!!
@@alexandra-lm3wv thanks! (are you romanian btw)
It feels like this video found me when I needed it most
im glad i could help!
Thank you for making this video, it really spoke to me! I needed to see this today.
@@NorthernTomato It’s my pleasure!
Incredibly resonant, succinct video, well done!
thank you!!
Wow, that was right at the point. I was thinking about all that stuff recently. Now, thanks to you, I discover Camus
im glad you could!
Meaning in life is when you get blessed with these absolute banger videos 😋
thank you thong yorke!
really, really needed this message today. thanks man.
im glad i could help you bro!
Ran across your video and had never seen Trainspotting, never even really heard of absurdism either. Really loved the movie and I love it because it feels so real. And it gets its point across without being too intense (like fight club). And doesn’t tell you how to live your life, it tells you to accept it.
@@colinmagdich5199 glad you enjoyed it and that you could draw these parallels!
That sounds like conforming but with extra steps.
Reminds me of Kierkegaard's development through blind faith into true faith, its still faith but instead of passive acceptance, its his new sense desperation that wills him to believe.
To be honest, to a certain extent you could probably make a case for most mentalities or philosophies to be conformist (unless you’re like an anarchist or dadaist or something). At the end of the day I think people should take what works best for them from every philosophy while maintaining some reasonable morals and discard what they think is bollocks from said philosophy/mentality. Thanks for the thought though man
Oh Im glad I found your channel. Good work !
thank you!
Near death experiences reinvigorate the appreciation of life. If you can squeeze in a bit of thrill or danger inbetween the mundane, your life would be full. Examples may be skydiving, parkour, high intensity tag, group hunting, skiing or anything novel. And those are just the legal options...
Personally I fight, I do MMA and spar at high intensity which literally leaves your hands shaking after and it pumps you full of adrenaline but sometimes I do some other dumb stuff as well lol
i don't need to risk my life to understand that eternal non-existence is a worse option if comparing it to existence, but that doesn't make existence good
@@CamelliaFlingert i guess i was referring more to the rush of adrenaline, and anything near death can exibit it in great amounts.
@@CamelliaFlingert why be so sure that it is eternal?
@@LOLHAXGUN because unlike religious stuff, it has at least a little basis, because it's proven that you - your brain, nonthing more than that, no soul and other nonsense like energy and whatever else
therefore, once you're dead - you're no longer exist and never will exist ever again, everything else is just a copium and inability to accept this harsh reality
Great video. I think Absurdism is mere anthropomorphizing. Which means "To ascribe human characteristics to things not human." This is why, I believe, Socrates said that the only wisdom is knowing that I know nothing.
This life is a mystery, nobody knows who we are and why we are here. The mistake, or the human tragedy is that we need a comforting answer to everything.
I think the industrial society has granted so much privilege to individual that many of us suffer from paralysis analysis.
Thought seems to be the root of the problem. Human today is more left-brain hemisphere oriented than before. This can be connected to the idea that we have become ever more analytical, and suffer from overthinking.
We think so much we think there's nothing else to life. When there's no spaciousness in the mind, there is no order and no possibility to observe with clarity.
Freedom is when there is no self-interest at all. But for many of us our sense of self is too strong that there is attachment, and we're satisfied with the "choose life" mediocrity, forms of escapes and the life which is a cycle of pleasure and fear.
My point is that many of us are preoccupied with thinking so that we never truly look or listen, so we develop all kinds of ideas and beliefs. Truth is a pathless land.. But many of us are confused and begin to look for answers externally, forgetting what is inside you.
Brillian thought man, I wish I would have come up with something like this to use in the video🙏
a banger video essay well done
thanks man I appreciate it!
This is actually one of the most succinct summations of absurdist philosophy I’ve seen.
@@MenelikTheFirst thank you man!
What a gem ! Thanks buddy, best video I´ve seen in a long while.
P.S. What´s Intro music ? I couldnt find it in comments, sorry :D
thanks, it's take me out by franz ferdinand but i pitched it down and sped it up a little
@kantar007 Thx:)
Was captured by the name of the video, started watching and understood there was a movie, stopped watching, took me couple weeks to find the time to see the movie and after i've seen, amazing view of the philosophy behind it, thank you very much!
@@2104Roni thank you! glad you took the time to do it and enjoyed it
I'd say the important part is that it's very easy to "choose life" when you have a bag of money on your back... I see that as a message.
Too many of us are thrown into life by those who can't even take care of themselves, a child of such people won't chose life most of the time, unless God has decided to give them special talents.
Everything in life boils down to luck, if you don't believe that, you haven't thought it through.
That's a great thought man, never thought about the ending segment that way before ngl
True, but I also think that Renton taking that bag of money for himself was a part of him "choosing life".
He didn't have the big bag of money, but it was there, and he took it. he chose that path instead of letting his shithead abusive friends get it.
Very good point regardless, it's always easy to say "choose life" when you have the cash, but I just wanted to look a bit deeper at it and make my own point on the matter.
i believe luck is a myth, i believe randomness is a myth, hear me out…
look into nature and life until you begin to see the patterns, patterns, patterns, things that seem “random” on one level always make sense when you can zoom out, you begin to see the perfection, the symmetry, the “intelligence” behind it all..
i’m not claiming this as absolute truth, but it is in my reality..
even if it’s not true outside yourself, if you take on this mindset of everything having meaning and everything being perfect, INCLUDING the hardship, the pain, the confusion, if you accept it all as purposeful, then all u have to do is find the purpose, the reason for it all, it could appear in an infinite amount of ways but these principles always apply..
find the reason for your suffering and let it fuel you, let it serve as nutrients to help you grow, whether it be physically, mentally, or spiritually..
it really comes down to a victim mentality vs a student mentality.
the victim sees their hardships as meaningless and horrible, nothing good can come from this mindset..
the student sees his hardships as lessons, teachers, clues and hints, he transmutes his pain into growth, and ultimately this growth leads to Love..
it’s alchemy, and anyone can do it.
❤❤
wishing u the best
"Everything in life boils down to luck"
Not true. If you miss your bus in the morning you aren't out of luck, you just haven't left your house early enough to catch the bus. You can get "lucky" in life (get job offers you actually want, get with a girl you like) but you need to be prepared for those occasions. Have a good enough CV, have good enough looks and be more social etc. "Choosing life" in this context takes hard HARD work.
And yes, VERY rarely will you ever have a bag of cash just landing on your lap. But Renton at the start of the movie would have blown it all anyway.
A real man makes his own luck!
-Billy Zayne, Titanic
-Dwight Schrute
Thank you for making this video. This was a fantastic and insightful watch.
im glad you enjoyed it!
Mate I’m from the uk and your presentation style is flawless. Well done! Now make more! 😂
@@Ladyfingers-333 thank you, I really appreciate it!
This was a really great video! thanks :)
thank you!
Everything is not worth it if you are not gonna wake up next morning. Same with feeling good with yourself, being authentic
Thanks for this video man, it feels great knowing that im rebelling life
Logically speaking life is absurd but Suicide is not at all logically connected to it, Suicide is an emotional response to the absurd.
And if you think about it a series of logical arithmetic with the information you have led you the conclusion of absurd and Suicide .
Similarly it is possible some event,information, relationship emotion might somehow mitigate the suicidal response to absurd And that is what I'm chasing.
As someone who has gone through opiate withdrawal more times than I can count I can say that the things he saw weren't nightmares. They had to have been hallucinations because the worst aspect of withdrawal is that you are not sleeping, at all. If you have a bunch of benzos then you can sleep or maybe some type of heavy sedative but even that can backfire. I took a Seroquel one night during withdrawal, a drug that I could never stay awake on, but all it did was make the inability to get comfortable even worse but no sleep at all. It's something you can't escape from via sleep and anyone who has insomnia can testify lack of sleep makes everything worse.
@@jamesstaggs4160 thank you, I actually had no idea if that scene was an over exageration or dream sequence or hallucinations so I just wrote down what I thought it was
The opening really pleased my inner Thanatos drive 💜
Very insightful video
@@sebasrtrd thank you!
im so glad i watched this-
i forgot how much Camus’ work influenced my thinking lol
i haven’t seen this movie since i was like 19 or so, and i never figured out why he hung out with those horrible people he called ‘friends’ lol. this was excellent, i appreciate this video. thank you
@@VenusianLissette thank you!!
Coming to Minnesota was the biggest mistake of my life.
Great video mate
thanks man!
6:30. Isn't that what our ancestors did for thousands of years. Rebelled against our Circumstances. Being to stubborn to accept them. Always kept on pushing for a better life which lead us to where we are today. The same stubbornness caveman used to battle saberthooths we are using to wake up every morning and go to our jobs.
@nothanks9503 That's the Spirit brother, proud of you 🙏 I currently work in engineering but I am slowly shifting towards a more social work field. Next to my job I work with a group of youth. That work is so much more fulfilling and it feels that every second I spend there actually does a change for the better. Eventually I want to become a teacher. That is my purpose. Just gotta keep pushing brother
Must be my fav movie of all time. Once i didn't have nothing else entertainment than dvd of this and played with ps3 every morning over a winter before school.
I choose life because I feel like I owe a certain amount of debt to any individual in my life who has helped me and that I am not allowed to die until I have at least fulfilled that. I may not care about anything but they do.
I wouldn't describe it better. This is my favorite film so far! I also love the fact that this film (and book too) has an another tier of mockery to is the Imperialsm and Britain's efforts to forcing their culture to Scotland. That's one of the morals that why our characters use drugs. Resisting to numbing and conquering culture of Britain. Although... yeah they numbing themselves again.
I read this on a site, I don't it's officially true or not. But to me it's quite possible.
Great video bro 👌🏼
thanks man!
Well told sir, great video. kudos
thanks man!
Keep on creating ! This video is awesome!
thank you!
Great video sir
thank you!
Lots of love from Nepal brother ❤❤❤❤❤❤
thank you!
I just recently watched 1996 trainspotting for the first time it's one of the best movies after fight club
Trainspotting is a great depiction of the blend of wholesome and degenerate.
Drug use isn't just crack houses and nightmares. It's mixed in with good memories, friends, heartfelt moments and real emotion.
Unfortunately that's just the good half, the rest is addiction, betrayal, hopelessness and horrors beyond comprehension.
This opening and closing monologue of that film has been burned into my brain since I was 14
This book and film has had a major impact on me
Thank you Irvine welsh
just read : "unveiling your hidden potential" and you will realise everything
Oh goody, another self help book peddling bot account
Did a little deep dive because I was curious. There is a bot driven campaign to market this book in various UA-cam comment sections.
Don't buy this book.
@@FranzLiszt-n3k basically every book in this comment section is bot pushed garbage
I saw it in Cuba, while withsrawing on vacation, it was an enlightening experience (also they had killer movies in general) I agree with what you say
im gonna read camus now.this video put everything into words
@@Pixie-kw9pc good to hear man!
hope you prospect + good video + hope your channel grows more and more + you are loved + soothing voice + great endeavors
thanks man!!
Perfection doesn’t exist, this video is perfect, and life is absurd.
Amazing! I'm working on an essay of these movies as of writing aswell, so funny seeing you've been at work aswell
@@bLEACHeye subscribed to you! hope to see it soon man!
I hate life i dont want to be alive i just want to either be high or not be anything at all
one of the best movies of all time.
love this movie, great video
thanks man!
Mhhhh I gotta watch this 🔥🔥🔥
just in time for my brithday, time to re watch Trainspoting and finaly read that Camus book on my sheft.
go for it man!
@@kantar007 thanks man, I have to do some uni homework, meanwhile I'm blasting Lust for life 🤟
There's only a few things that separate us from the animals and whatnot, having a purpose is one of them.
08:40 What is this beautiful music?
"Uwa!! So Temperate" from the undertale OST by toby fox and I also slowed it down a little bit
@@kantar007 Thanks :)
There's also T2, the sequel in which they're basically 20 years older and Renton returns to Edimburgh, just to find out that things are quite the same. Still, it's also a great movie, even if not essential it's pretty good.
@@jesuscm1398 Did watch it the other day, really wasn’t expecting it to be that good but I was mistaken
Bro , can you please make a separate video for that intro. It's so good I always listen to it at least 10 times before continuing the video
Well you could screen record it or something
@@kantar007 well that's a good idea thanks
0:01
the opening was enough!
I'm not going to limit myself to those choices
loved the video
@@turki9397 thank you!!
Amazing video
thanks!
great take on trainspottings message, hope that more will see this video and perhaps laugh in the face of absurdity instead of succumbing to it
thank you! agreed!
0:43 the great outdoors! Dunnit make ya proud to be scottish?
@@HowToSucceedAtBreakfast ITS SHITE BEING SCOTTISH
@kantar00 WE'RE THE LOWEST OF THE LOW, WE'RE THR SCUM OF THE EARTH
Okay
After this analysis I realize even more that the sequel was unnecessary.
Thanks for your analysis.
thanks, a lot of people asked me if I would do a video on the second one as well, but I genuinely don’t know what meaningful commentary I could bring to it
Even In the lows I try to find euphoria in the fact that I feel something
This movie changed my life
@@Thekingslayer-ig5se same here man🙏
@ true
Nice video bro.
@@kadirufukicoz2191 thanks!
well this video came out of nowhere. Im jobless with no real future or any idea what job i should choose cuz every workplace is the same boring stuck in one place shit that i dont want to do anymore infact i dont want to do nothing anymore......just live with nothing to worry about.
This is a banger u cooked man
thanks bro!
What is the song in the background at 8:42 ?
@@iii408 Uwa so temperate from the undertale soundtrack
I flippin love Trainspotting movies