This video spoke to how I feel about the Bay Area as a kid born and raised in the marsh and scrubland watching transplants treat the place I love as a means to an industry and, often, though not always, not a means of community. What is the point of being in a place if you're not going to be part of the place and the things that make a place a place.
This is the first video I've seen from you but I love it. As an LA native I appreciate the way you talk about the good and bad of the city. A+ analysis!!
Strangely illuminating for someone who has lived in countryside surburbs all my life and shook my fist at city-folk. My isolation is my own lack of connection with “the city” as people and turning it into a symbol of concrete corruption. Really appreciate this one! Thank you!
I’m so glad you’re getting the recognition you deserve! the video essays you make are phenomenal, definitely on the level of some of the greats. i’m excited to see you reach more people. your work is refreshing and unique, and something to know about people who love video essays? your interest is contagious. you could talk about the ethics of public bathrooms in america for all I care but as long as you’re interested, i’ll be interested. it’s not the topic every time, sometimes it’s the act of the deep dive that grabs us. i’ve never seen most of the films you mentioned, never been to LA, but I still listened. and I loved it.
Thank-you for yet another beautiful video. I don't know LA beyond the screen but you made me care about the city deeply and also think a lot about the place I call home and how the reasons I love it ultimately boil down to having a sense of connection with my community.
Holy shit, Vivian was right, this is astounding. With this topic, any viewer would have to assume they knew where it was going - loneliness, corruption, sure, we've heard that before. But you took it places I never expected, and now my mind is blown. And Real Women Have Curves is definitely the next movie I will see. Then I'll re-watch Her with new eyes. Thanks for the video!
It’s really interesting coming across this because, while I do live in LA, I see a lot more of this mental journey in this video in my partner than in me. We met in the Midwest and for the longest time, he dreaded the idea of coming to LA to meet my family, because his idea of it from movies (La La Land in particular) was that it was just a bunch of self involved, opportunistic assholes trying to get famous. In the single week we were there, he was pleasantly dissuaded of that notion due to his love of exploration he saw the character in it that I never did. I was never “Oh everyone in LA is so fake” but it’s a place where everything feels so big that it’s easy to feel small and vulnerable so you just choose to drift about for your own emotional safety.
Thank you for this video! The way you took this topic and crafted a well defined philosophy on human nature within cities is amazing. I'm so happy to have found your channel!
I just read Mike Davis' City of Quartz and the questions you ask remind me a lot of Davis' description of the perception of LA, especially in chapter one, "Sunshine or Noir". This video was extremely engaging and provoking to watch. Thanks!!
Ahhhhh I love to see the love for LA plays itself it’s my favorite ever documentary I rewatch obsessively and I feel like it does get talked about enough I actually yelped when I saw it in this video.
As a lifelong resident, the most accurate portrayal of LA I've ever seen put to film is Falling Down (1993). It's almost uncanny to watch.
Not me thinking "I really hope he includes that one Rachel Sennott clip", only for it to play the second after
This video spoke to how I feel about the Bay Area as a kid born and raised in the marsh and scrubland watching transplants treat the place I love as a means to an industry and, often, though not always, not a means of community. What is the point of being in a place if you're not going to be part of the place and the things that make a place a place.
This is the first video I've seen from you but I love it. As an LA native I appreciate the way you talk about the good and bad of the city. A+ analysis!!
Also the "Tar Pit" section made me cry LOL. LA community can be so vibrant if you know where to look. I'm so glad you showed that part of the city.
Strangely illuminating for someone who has lived in countryside surburbs all my life and shook my fist at city-folk. My isolation is my own lack of connection with “the city” as people and turning it into a symbol of concrete corruption. Really appreciate this one! Thank you!
I’m so glad you’re getting the recognition you deserve! the video essays you make are phenomenal, definitely on the level of some of the greats. i’m excited to see you reach more people. your work is refreshing and unique, and something to know about people who love video essays? your interest is contagious. you could talk about the ethics of public bathrooms in america for all I care but as long as you’re interested, i’ll be interested. it’s not the topic every time, sometimes it’s the act of the deep dive that grabs us. i’ve never seen most of the films you mentioned, never been to LA, but I still listened. and I loved it.
This is incredibly kind, thank you very much! It really means the world to me 💛💛💛
This channel is like a diamond in the mine. Your content is so original!!!
I loved your urbanist interpretation of Her. It's a really fresh take.
So glad you included Tangerine. I lived in LA for a year and Tangerine is SO LA to me. (the streets and lighting not the hookin')
The color in the movie is exactly correct for LA
Thank-you for yet another beautiful video.
I don't know LA beyond the screen but you made me care about the city deeply and also think a lot about the place I call home and how the reasons I love it ultimately boil down to having a sense of connection with my community.
Holy shit, Vivian was right, this is astounding. With this topic, any viewer would have to assume they knew where it was going - loneliness, corruption, sure, we've heard that before. But you took it places I never expected, and now my mind is blown.
And Real Women Have Curves is definitely the next movie I will see. Then I'll re-watch Her with new eyes.
Thanks for the video!
This is so sweet! Thank you! And do check it out! I love that movie so much!
It’s really interesting coming across this because, while I do live in LA, I see a lot more of this mental journey in this video in my partner than in me. We met in the Midwest and for the longest time, he dreaded the idea of coming to LA to meet my family, because his idea of it from movies (La La Land in particular) was that it was just a bunch of self involved, opportunistic assholes trying to get famous. In the single week we were there, he was pleasantly dissuaded of that notion due to his love of exploration he saw the character in it that I never did. I was never “Oh everyone in LA is so fake” but it’s a place where everything feels so big that it’s easy to feel small and vulnerable so you just choose to drift about for your own emotional safety.
Thank you for this video! The way you took this topic and crafted a well defined philosophy on human nature within cities is amazing. I'm so happy to have found your channel!
Masterful as always.
Awesome video man! Keep up the good work
Your videos are always so beautiful, I love them all.
I just read Mike Davis' City of Quartz and the questions you ask remind me a lot of Davis' description of the perception of LA, especially in chapter one, "Sunshine or Noir".
This video was extremely engaging and provoking to watch. Thanks!!
Me @20:22 in the video: Ah, veo que eres un hombre de cultura también.
Ahhhhh I love to see the love for LA plays itself it’s my favorite ever documentary I rewatch obsessively and I feel like it does get talked about enough I actually yelped when I saw it in this video.
Vivian Strange told me to pull up, so, here I am. I'm happy i did!
Well done, brilliant documentary. A little bit homage to LA plays itself, but executed with a modern take.
The tar pits, the metro line and the surrounding desert I feel are very underrepresented aspects of LA not portrayed in films
That was really, really great. Thank you.
It here!!!! I hope it didn't get copy right claimed!
Such a wonderful video
This may sound flattering, but this 35 min video essay is honestly better than LA Plays Itself. Yes, really
I sincerely do not care about this topic at all, but still you made this into a very interesting watch nonetheless!
You forgot Los Angeles in the future based film Elysium.....also films like Changeling, The Black Dahlia, Training Day and the Fast and the Furious
This was a very good video but I need to point out a minor mistake you made. Blade Runner's LA is based on Hong Kong, not Tokyo.
Lunatics stay fed!!!
Only three times a year, though, they're STARVING
Boys n the hood 1955
you're making me think I need to go watch "her" again. don't do this to me.
Maybe you should! Just have the tissues at hand!
I'll watch with ;)