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The quote that made my life different was from Seneca: "Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life." Many snall issues can be shrugged off, people all have opinions on you and have thoughts of you but they do not know you so why care? Your image is yours and you decide and make the persona that is seen as the one you feel is truely you.

Really great message and organization of this video essay. Seeking to maximize pleasure and minimize pain is too simplistic and will lead us to a point of numbness at best. What we want is to put in work and risk and suffer a bit for the things that we find are worth it. Some of those things will be material, because having a certain level of stability helps a lot, but some of those things aren't really things--connectedness, well-being, community, sense of purpose.

I quit my job after watching this movie because it was just too real - right down to getting shocked by the door handle every morning when arriving. The irony is that it was owner of the company that suggested that I should see the film 😂 …..I also quit my job, abandoned all my possessions and walked away from a 17yr relationship to go to hiking in Europe for 6 years after seeing Ben Stiller in Secret Life of Walter Mitty. When I say walked out I mean packing my back pack after she left for work and going to the Airport without saying goodbye I’m sure she figured it out I spent my whole life as a developer trouble shooter sent out to projects that were headed for disaster and getting them across the line - I never quit a challenge in my life. …..but ‘quitting’ on the things that are purely destructive and useless is not ‘quitting’ - I looked at it as ‘letting go’ of the things that are weighing you down - removing the non-essential items from your pack so that you make that ‘final ascent’

Were those real dead guys at the end? Damn.

if something needs to be said, and its said there's no more need to say it

This is probably the best video essay/analysis ever made. It assumes you are familiar with the topic in hand so it doesn’t have to spend 30 minutes up to two hours explaining every single detail, only for the last 10 minutes of the video actually providing reasoning and evidence for the statement proposed, with the last two minutes is just shilling out Patreon and social medias. Another thing that makes this analysis great compared to others is that the hook directly relates to the topic and statement proposed. Not half assed, not barely, fucking directly.

2:37 I think that this especially changed with the phasing out from sword and shield combat to firearms, because of course in medieval warfare and prior you could be killed by a mere stroke of bad luck but generally if you were good at swordplay and combat you had a better chance. In modern warfare with guns, bombs, and cannons, one bad step could blow your leg off and being in the wrong place at the wrong time could get you blown to bits

I remember watching the end of all quiet on the western front and remembering how saddened and enraged I was seeing the protagonist getting shot literally minutes before the end of ww1 not many war movies have impacted me in that a way. I literally felt empty and soulless after watching it for a while. At first I thought it was a bad movie. but the more I thought about it, it really made me think of this is how they felt on the front lines all the time.😢

An anti-war written work that presents the WW2 as the inverse of heroism is the Sven Hassel series, because the respective characters try to survive not only the war but also the fascist regime they have to serve under and as the war progresses more and more of said characters luck runs out as one by one they die meaningless deaths in a meaningless war, and main character only manages to survive by managing to convince an US officer to take him as a PoW.

I generally avoid watching YT mini-docs but this one was pretty good 👍

bruh I saw apocalypse now and couldn’t stop thinking about it for weeks

A very good anti war film for me was the “ Kings Man” movie. Purely because I was too invested in the main character and seeing what would become of that guy

such beautifully crafted video essay enjoyed more than the movie

Aren’t these so called “city Mayans” called Aztec? The Mayans moved out of their towns long before the time of european contact.

All Quiet On The Western Front is a great example of a war movie that manages to be anti-war with its themes, but I personally think the greatest anti-war movie ever created is Come and See. No other movie manages to capture the inconcievable dread of war the same way it does. Still, amazing video, I absolutely agree with you. Most anti-war movies aren't anti-war. Rather, they glorify the war and show the meaningless deaths of countless people every second as heroic. Another phenomenal example of an anti-war film is the Father of a Soldier, a Soviet-Georgian movie about a common farmer who's accidentally sucked into the frontlines, where he witnesses death and misery, and slowly becomes a strong soldier himself. It both shows the mental strength greatness and greatness of the individuals in the war, but also the meaningless and avoidable deaths it caused. [SPOILERS] The movie ends as the titular character finds his son by a total accident and warmly reunites with him, only the latter to be killed by a random opened fire from the German side amidst a ceasefire. Tragic for sure, but that's simply the nature of war.

You are doing great job. I think we should discourage the war. In the war there are no winners. Even one party win without any damage to them, they also losers because they have destroyed properties and human lives in other party. That make them losers as human.

Everyone suffers and dies, no matter how talented, rich, good, or bad (read Ecclesiastes). The secret is to be as good as we can, trust God), and enjoy the journey, whether it is long or short. It's not enough to be a rock, an island, or some sort of post-modern stoic. Humans are not built that way; but be like water.

I think ant-war film would have to follow the losers than the victors becuase of how hard it's to show the feeling of "you won but at what cost". But if you follow the losers of a war, you would see nothing but dispair and showing war is ultimately a bad thing.

i love all quiet on the western front!! i watched the movie and read the book in 8th grade

As someone who really enjoys COD, yeah war really sucks but unfortunately a lot of youths seem attracted to the idea of it through media for whatever reason.

Feelings mean Nothing ! Don't be a **say Pull your pants up LETS GO !😤✊

Here is the bottom line: Dont break your fucking back for a job or a career. If you're literally forced to work in order to not be out on the streets, then im going to be doing the absolute minimum to achieve that. I don't owe a "job" anything besides showing up on time and carrying out my base duties. Im not going "above and beyond" or trying to be fucking Superman for some dude who wouldn't care if i was drowning. Im only here for pay, health insurance, and some form of retirement. My real life is OUTSIDE of work. Who i am is not what i do for fiat currency.

Bit of a shit video when you didn't even include Gangs of London, which Gareth Evans created and worked on a lot of the first season.

this was the worst movie i ever watched. TBVH many potholes, many unfinished plots, many illogical scenes. I cant believe the 8.2 rating and people leaving comments like *i loved it etc etc* I HATED IT. absolutely time waste

Money. I need to make a point with money.

I'm that kind of friend that doesn't looks sad at all and smiles all the time

your history teacher failed you if you’re proud of your country and applaud war.

This is a nice take on the "movie character" but the real Frank Abagnale had very little similarity to the movie. Read Wikipedia to learn the truth. While Frank Abagnale was supposedly impersonating all of those people, he was in prisons for real petty crimes against real victims.

I did 20 years in the New York City Fire Department. I never once had the feeling of boredom or futility. If I ever felt sorry for myself I’d look at those who needed us at the worse time in their life and realize I had purpose. Want a life! Get a reason to live.

No, never felt that. Everyone gives a bleep. Religion, the fact that you need the girlfriend and the rest of the worlds demands that can kill you if not catered to. Just saying there is no way to not give a bleep

There's anti war film "grave of fireflies"

Peter Gibbons gets high anxiety of worrying about losing his job, and Mr. Bill Lumbergh yelling at him.

Peter Gibbons is at his office, staring at his desk instead of updating software feeling nervous, angry and embarrassed.

Peter Gibbons going to work getting stuck on bumper to bumper traffic is making him most irritable.

I know that Initech the office building work makes him nervous, angry and embarrassed.

I think a truly anti war film would be from the pov of the innocent civilians that suffer at the hands of of every soldier who comes onto their land I’m sick of hearing abt from the pov of rapists and war criminals. These movies are all polished if they don’t show the truth which is war turns (or gives them the opportunity to show their true colors however u want to say it) men who you think are normal into rapists and pillagers of people who want absolutely nothing to do with them.

In “A testament of youth”, a young woman has four men in her life who go to war. None come back. They just die one by one and then the movie is over.

Stoicism; The effective and efficient implementation of indifference.

Watch Gundam

_"He who has overcome his fears will trully be free."_ *- Aristotle*

Loudermilk when he had a job .👏

The scariest thing that i realized, reading about WW1 is that it was inevitable.

Tommy is just a man who does things that people all want to do but do not have the courage to. He does things with no fear. Why? Because he has learned the world and how people work. Yes Tommy has done things that an ordinary person aren’t able to do, but who else would give him the things he got. No one ever. Now, are we a mortal human ? Yes. But why are there human beings walking around the world with power over the whole human race, but once an ordinary guy that understands both the poor, and hard working people, that then rises up without any power or past family power, he’s looked as evil. He did things that we all want to do but of course it’s evil, but he wanted to love like we all do, freedom from the world , the powerful people. Yes it’s an evil world to be free sadly, but he did this and i understand his character. Fuxk.

"Happiness is the seed of unhappiness" (Buddhist quote). Once you start to let go of your attachment to desire, pleasure and comfort, only then can you really begin to reveal the true happiness that lies within. Notice I say reveal and not find. Happiness can never be found, out there, in the pursuit of desire, pleasure and comfort. Why? Because you have never lost it. You've only concealed it. Inner peace and happiness, or more accurately, contentment can only ever be revealed.

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I just want to say thank you for being "that one guy" who actually lists material used because sometimes I've spent hours on that, you're great man

imagine be a German soldier(the soldier from ALL quiet on front) and listen that you Will fight again at the HELL again,until 11 am.

If you've ever had a job you hated sitting in a cubicle this movie is like Valhalla

Don't seek happiness, seek something worth suffering for 🤯

excellent work on this