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The Hidden GENIUS of Tenet's BAD Writing
Tenet is not Good in the traditional sense, but it is good in the sense that I overcame a dying microphone to talk about it for 12 minutes.
References
@ani_obsessive. (2021, August 20). Satoshi Kon talks about how Requiem for a Dream took from Perfect Blue (1997), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse.Twitter/X.
ani_obsessive/status/1428698896197459971
Animation Obssessive. (2022, March 21). The real history of ‘Perfect Blue’ and ‘Requiem for a Dream.’ Substack.animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-real-history-of-perfect-blue
Hossain, S. (2023, March 21). Perfect Blue creator Satoshi calls out Darren Aronofsky for blatantly plagiarizing his work. Sports Keeda.www.sportskeeda.com/anime/news-perfect-blue-creator-satoshi-calls-darren-aronofsky-blatantly-plagiarizing-work
Um Olhar por Narrativa. (2022, June 7). Black Swan and Perfect Blue: Identical shots. CZcams. czcams.com/video/1Ny_Uz6iKSs/video.html
Music
Tinashe - Talk to Me Nice. Reprod. by Ladytired. czcams.com/video/mpswy0j8ZDE/video.html
Offset - Say My Grace. Reprod. by YBH. czcams.com/video/ssElvlADIMA/video.html
Chief Keef, Gucci Mane - Semi on Em. Reprod. by Alex S. czcams.com/video/6aHqiTT7l5M/video.html
Icytwat - 5 star. Reprod. by 1kayfiji. www.youtube.com/@hthrmason
Travis Scott - I KNOW. Reprod. by Rockstar Beats. czcams.com/video/baecl8Vj3t8/video.html
Rauw Alejandro - DEJAU. Reprod. by Instrumental Music. czcams.com/video/hJ5QjSWAcWE/video.html
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Komentáře

  • @triggerhapp0990
    @triggerhapp0990 Před 12 dny

    Nah they're absolute bullies! Where they now? Nardwuar still going strong and has the respect of the whole music industry!

  • @spacejesus8856
    @spacejesus8856 Před měsícem

    Somehow, by some cosmic coincidence, you’ve managed to somehow make your analysis of Tenet even worse than your audio. Setting aside your “white man racist” comments, that are somehow more trite than a twitter bot, you’re attempting to analyze a movie, without either watching it, or suffering from same condition as Leonard. You make the “claims” about the story, that have, dialogue that actually rebuffs your claims so on the nose, you’ve got me thinking Nolan has conquered time, and went back and wrote the script after seeing your shallow & asinine “analysis.” You might just be the Tommy Wiseau of movie breakdowns.

  • @theultimatezero2571
    @theultimatezero2571 Před měsícem

    Underrated video!!!!!

  • @Ssvinq
    @Ssvinq Před měsícem

    You seem to not like white people. Why would that be?

  • @grec.
    @grec. Před měsícem

    A person who uses memes to make a video criticizing cinema has zero agency in the subject.😂

    • @erick.zepeda
      @erick.zepeda Před měsícem

      I think you are taking this whole thing a bit too seriously my brother

    • @grec.
      @grec. Před měsícem

      @@erick.zepeda I am not. I am just saying that be Denis or Aronofski, if a person who's going to critique their work uses memes as a resource, doesn't have much to criticize. But well, on that note, I wish you success. Nothing personal, just constrictive criticism.

    • @erick.zepeda
      @erick.zepeda Před měsícem

      @grec. am I like your first video essay? I'm not reinventing the wheel here, boots Duchamp made Fountain 100 years ago. Enjoy the comment section quarrels tho I'm rooting for ya, kid 🤠

    • @grec.
      @grec. Před měsícem

      @@erick.zepeda welp, let's see if the algorithm bring us together once more. 🤝

    • @rickdeckard1075
      @rickdeckard1075 Před 28 dny

      @@grec. ugh a rando throwing arnd the names villeneuve and aronofski as though the mention of those frauds lends gravitas ... lol ill take the memes

  • @leves777
    @leves777 Před 2 měsíci

    please do yourself a favor and reupload with normal sound

  • @leves777
    @leves777 Před 2 měsíci

    ear rape lol are you in 2009

    • @erick.zepeda
      @erick.zepeda Před 2 měsíci

      Do you like cruise the low viewcount videos to start internet arguments bc that seems p 2009

    • @leves777
      @leves777 Před 2 měsíci

      @erick.zepeda youtube recommends low view videos sometimes ear rape jokes can be alright it's just that the base volume is so low that it makes people turn up their sound only to get punished for it

  • @williameriksson6650
    @williameriksson6650 Před 2 měsíci

    The audio is crazy!

    • @erick.zepeda
      @erick.zepeda Před 2 měsíci

      Please elaborate

    • @a_handle
      @a_handle Před 2 měsíci

      @@erick.zepeda​ nothing wrong with having a bad mic, but don't blast people's ears like you did at 0:44 and 2:53. Did you even listen to it yourself? Or is it intended volume???

    • @erick.zepeda
      @erick.zepeda Před 2 měsíci

      These are intentional meme-like edits. The first is a TV static sound censoring a curse word. The second, an exaggerated portrayal of how it first felt to experience the air horn gimmick in the movie trailer. Mic was fked though yeah ​@a_handle

    • @grec.
      @grec. Před měsícem

      ​@@erick.zepeda so you spend 12+ minutes criticizing one of the greatest film makers of the 21st century and you can't take a constructive critique about an evident problem your video had 😅 Seems so ironic. You explaining the reasons of your "choices" and can't understand how film makers like Nolan also have reasons to make decisions in their artistic outputs 😂 Make it make sense.

    • @erick.zepeda
      @erick.zepeda Před měsícem

      @grec. dude you are so mad. About a short video which has a positive stance on the filmmaker you like's work? You get that when u talk about a piece of art it doesn't mean you hate the artist to discuss the topics of controversy right?

  • @filipecoutinho5706
    @filipecoutinho5706 Před 4 měsíci

    SY is the best band in history

  • @LuridContent
    @LuridContent Před 9 měsíci

    There's probably about 6 or seven songs that I really like from SY. I've given them a fair shake. Waded through about 5 of their albums. Goo, probably their most radio friendly offering was for me their height, though I'm savvy enough to recognize that most fans are going to go deeper in the paint than that. Great band, undeniable influence, but ultimately I put them in the same category as Bowie. Beyond a handful of songs I can't be bothered. I was always a Dinosaur Jr. man. Bye.

  • @RealAsaMitaka
    @RealAsaMitaka Před 9 měsíci

    i do like me some Sonic Youth. can you heart this comment?

  • @ycastro2003
    @ycastro2003 Před 9 měsíci

    I do say that it's a iffy to constantly have the jewish-created characters, both Bruce and Clark, to be either working as a fascistic character or some worker of an Authrorian government

  • @COrraThereal0ne
    @COrraThereal0ne Před 9 měsíci

    I was so dissapointed by my rewatchbof Korra that it was basically if the Avatar was a cop.

  • @PacificMonk
    @PacificMonk Před rokem

    I was listening to various punk bands, say misfits, ramones... but also metal, metallica, iron maiden, and even psychedelic like pink Floyd, grateful dead. I thought it was cool how punk was not about guitar solos and being a virtuoso musician, but ultimately sonic youth blew me away as it was raw punk, they were actually good musicians without going to Eddie van Halen style solos.

  • @sophie________
    @sophie________ Před rokem

    i found out about sonic youth because of a picture with Kurt Cobain wearing a sonic youth shirt

  • @Blarg
    @Blarg Před rokem

    They are fresh and accessible enough

  • @Simgirl128
    @Simgirl128 Před rokem

    love the video essay! randomly appeared on my discover page and so glad I had clicked.

  • @lewisd3125
    @lewisd3125 Před rokem

    Man! I would love to sit down and talk to you, the sprinkling of seemingly terrifying bands that send you down a month long experimental rabbit hole are common in this video. No matter how long I live, I could never possibly have the pleasure to love every piece of music on Earth.

  • @TreyLives
    @TreyLives Před rokem

    “Wish Fulfillment” is what pulled me into Sonic Youth. “Cinderella’s Big Score” tough too.

  • @zakattack8172
    @zakattack8172 Před rokem

    Absolutely wonderful - thank you so much putting this together and sharing it with us! Sonic Youth are definitely way, way up there with bands I can honestly say have made a huge difference throughout my life - and very genuinely helped save it when I was right on the edge of death from 13-16, and longing to tip myself all the way over. Consider yourself newly and soundly subscribed to, Sir! ☺️

  • @SarahGambill-sl9dl
    @SarahGambill-sl9dl Před rokem

    She is an enemy.

  • @isaacness2647
    @isaacness2647 Před rokem

    i was never cool at all, yet i loved deeply the music of sonic youth in my teens

  • @ryleighjulina5724
    @ryleighjulina5724 Před rokem

    'promo sm'

  • @oldaccount9563
    @oldaccount9563 Před rokem

    the 4K bluray came out recently and recently went on sale at Best Buy so I grabbed a copy. it's an amazing film and remaster!

  • @nowitsdarkmovie
    @nowitsdarkmovie Před rokem

    Great analysis!

  • @42luke93
    @42luke93 Před rokem

    This film is something I watched once but watch movie clips of it overtime.

  • @robertasirgutz8800
    @robertasirgutz8800 Před rokem

    It seems like the music press had pushed a narrative, that Rock died in the 70's, after Led Zeppelin, then jumped to 90s grunge.

  • @chriswhrtn
    @chriswhrtn Před rokem

    goats🔥

  • @kommissar.murphy
    @kommissar.murphy Před rokem

    Dirty is both their best, but also their only good album.

  • @GTRRRZ
    @GTRRRZ Před rokem

    You're not wrong. Got to open for Thurston Moore band at The Turf Club, Saint Paul, MN. I gave him a telephone microphone.

  • @RotatableHorse
    @RotatableHorse Před rokem

    Are you black?

  • @hauntedstereo2665
    @hauntedstereo2665 Před rokem

    Kool band for Kool kids

  • @nevasmith6587
    @nevasmith6587 Před rokem

    True that baby boy ,, teenage Riot,, this band saved Music for Me ,, Dude Ranch all the Way, here's a quarter go put it in the Washing machine , Karen trips on a cloud

  • @ryansamuel8835
    @ryansamuel8835 Před rokem

    Lyrics for Dripping Dream are incredible

    • @alexanderclaylavin
      @alexanderclaylavin Před 9 měsíci

      Somebody scrawled them on the bottom of a big sculpture in Portland

  • @ryansamuel8835
    @ryansamuel8835 Před rokem

    Sonic nurse may be my favorite album, but yeah they have a huge discography that can easily dissuade new listeners who pick the wrong place to start, they are the masters of using dissonance and I feel they have made a profound contribution to music theory that very few musicians in history achieve

    • @foxgirl1822
      @foxgirl1822 Před rokem

      @This is 86 calling Control. Come in, Control... maybe shut the fuck up and let people keep enjoying whatever sonic youth albums they enjoy.

    • @kerstinover4536
      @kerstinover4536 Před 9 měsíci

      They influenced so many artists who followed in their footsteps. Then they stuck around long enough to be influenced by the bands who loved them. You can hear it post 1998

  • @gagemartin7207
    @gagemartin7207 Před rokem

    Greatest band of all time my favorite album of theirs is washing machine

  • @gabrielm0987
    @gabrielm0987 Před rokem

    Here some Uruguayan noise music: czcams.com/play/PLakan6U-AUNDjmoZpchQ9IyPpAhgc09oV.html

  • @rubejeff
    @rubejeff Před rokem

    Daydream Nation captured me...fan ever since - Enjoyed reading your experience.

  • @Antonio1950
    @Antonio1950 Před rokem

    Great video

  • @sexobscura
    @sexobscura Před rokem

    *S* *O* *N* *I* *C* *D* *E* *A* *T* *H*

  • @offpudding3313
    @offpudding3313 Před rokem

    yo honestly erick, this slaps

  • @foxgirl1822
    @foxgirl1822 Před rokem

    I'm not a hipster and never cared about that shit that younger generations are obsessed with but I first heard sonic youth when I was 12 in 1991 and I'd never heard music like it. It was the song "mote" and I heard it randomly in an alternative radio show. I didn't know what the band looked like or anything about them but the guitars and sound just really spoke to me. A week later I saw a special show about them on MTVs 120 minutes and it literally blew my mind. I never liked Nirvana or Pixies or any of that kind of music and the "shoegaze" of the time was mostly mediocre and boring in comparison. I got all their albums over the following weeks, often cassette copies off older "cool kids" (poser assholes tbh)and they opened up my mind to new ideas about music and introduced me to so much other music from Velvets to Branca to swell maps to krautrock. I lost interest in their later music around the time of "dirty" (got into electronic music and ambient) but those early 80s albums are still my favourite guitar albums. None of my friends liked them so I always had to listen to them on my own.

    • @erick.zepeda
      @erick.zepeda Před rokem

      I think "hipster" was a short lived brand of 2010s contrarianism. Just being fed up with pop music or interested in your local indie scene could've gotten you that label, but stuff like that stops mattering when your frontal lobe gets a little more cooked and people place less emphasis on clear cut labels. As I got older I could definitely see Sonic Youth as the type of band people overhype to seem cool, but their heyday was in the past when I discovered them as a kid and I didn't know anybody I could talk to about them. Their discography is very touch and go, and obviously they are flawed human beings who deserve no worship, but when you're a kid and you're exploring this storied band that ends up opening your palette to "weirder" music, that's core memory material.

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura Před rokem

      *You're taste is obviously very refined. I totally agree with you about them dying off in the 90s. 'Daydream Nation' was vertainly the distillation of all they'd been doing throughout the 80s, but 'Confusion Is Sex' and 'Bad Moon Rising' are pivotal for me. 'Goo' was an okay album to go 'Major Label' with, but they did seem to be treading water by then. The noises had already been explored and it just seemed to be their bid for (dare I suggest) mass appeal. Of course that never really happened, but 'Kool Thing' and 'Disappearer' were certainly contenders for that position. Oh well. They did put out a couple of decent albums in the latter stages of their oeuvre, though, so they did sort of 'redeem' themselves, there. They were definitely outre in their style and took no prisoner (or even needed them) in their execution*

    • @foxgirl1822
      @foxgirl1822 Před rokem

      @@sexobscura Evol and bad moon rising are my faves although I love daydream)sister/confusion almost as much. I do have a soft spot for Goo and disappearer is an absolute classic song for me. Loved tereasas sound world/oin the strip and j.c off dirty too although I didn't care for the rest of that album. Evol is probably my favorite guitar album ever (followed by women's "public strain, psychocandy" and third velvets 3rd album)

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura Před rokem

      @foxgirl1822 Truth PSYCHOCANDY is a piece of High Art 👌👍

  • @israel1166
    @israel1166 Před rokem

    Sonic youth it's my favorite band since highschool back in 2003 and it always be. I survived the hipster era and i still rock them.

  • @User-jp1sj
    @User-jp1sj Před rokem

    The most disgusting thing this show did was trying to write a literal fascist, Kuvira as being "complex" and "having a point" I know people hate Voltron: Legendary Defender, but it's portrayal of fascism as a evil force that consumes and destroys everything it touches is how I think fascists should be portrayed in fictional media. Not like this