I think this interpretation is completely valid, and I would love to add onto it. Why did he become an artist? Why did he choose do this as an exhibit and do so much in order to make a show of it (including inviting in a journalist who he knew would help further proliferate his work), if he only wanted to return to a simpler and happier point in his life? Since this is such a personal thing, why not do it privately, instead of making a spectacle out of it? I think this episode can be framed as a couple of things. One, as an examination of art and also an example of why some artists do the things they do. When I watched this for the first time, learning about his backstory completely reframed all his past artworks. I think the form of art shown in this episode is fundamentally a way of communication and expression. Sometimes, the best art comes from people who has experienced something they are driven to explore and share their point of view with other people. The first analogue who comes to mind is James Turrell. Turrell is an artist obsessed with light. Every piece of artwork is about working with light, turning light into an object instead of being a medium to reveal other objects, or distort the perception of space using light. One of his pieces that he's been working on for decades (starting in 1974), Roden Crater, is still incomplete. In one interview, he touched upon the ways his experiences with light and his childhood and his origin in quaker faith all blended together. In some ways, I personally view his artwork as a culmination of his religious association with light at childhood and the ways it shaped his perception of the world. In another interview, I think Turrell talked about how understanding perception of light would be the closest he can get to understanding God. But Turrell became an artist of all things--he chose to share and express his obsession with light with an audience. Some of his artworks seems clearly designed to communicate and share a sense of awe with light and space. I think Zima is the same way. I think through this lens, Zima is not JUST a person who wished to return to a simpler time. This episode also showcases a very human desire to express oneself. So in light of that, what is Zima's artwork saying? Again, I think the desire to return to a simpler time in his life is a very good and sound interpretation of his artwork. But I also think back to his previous artworks, and can't help but feel like his final piece of artwork is also a continuation of what he has been saying the entire time. A gorgeous painting of the cosmos, with zima blue at the very center. A gargantuan blue slate towering over viewers. Another solid interpretation is that this artwork is an extension of Zima desperately struggling to recover the important memories he's lost, and these giant artworks make the viewer feel like he did once a upon a time, when those pool slates were as big as the universe to him. But I also think you can flip this entirely on its head. You can see Zima as someone trying to explore something, but every piece of his artwork is confidently making a declaration on top of his personal exploration. His artwork already knew and understood what he himself was struggling to understand. You can see it in the very first painting. It's no coincidence that the painting is of the universe with zima blue at the center. There's a very simple and literal conclusion you can make: Zima Blue is in the center of the universe. Zima Blue is the universe. Zima Blue is as important as the universe. It is on par with everything grand. Something as small and as forgotten as Zima Blue is as important as the most awesome things in the world, because Zima Blue makes Zima feel and see the Universe itself. Every part of his artwork is a declaration stating this as fact. The final Pool piece simply revealed or confirmed that's what he was saying the entire time. And like many pieces of artworks, the more specific and granular/personal its focus is, the more universal it can feel to everyone. Because the full implication of Zima's art portfolio communicates an idea that has been done before, but expresses it in an emotionally novel way: anything you love or fixate on, no matter how mundane or abstract or small, is also as profound as the universe itself because of the way it makes you feel. Embrace the Zima Blue in your life, because it IS the universe and it's the medium in which you can see and experience the universe for what it is. Again, very similar to Turrell and his pursuit of God through light. This is why I LOVE Zima Blue as an animation short. It somehow manages to tie a complete self-contained story alongside a complete and fulfilling artistic declaration about the universe all in a very short time-frame. Absolutely peak science-fiction storytelling.
@@sciencefantastic Not shallow at all! I think your interpretation is also very important and accurate, in light of what he says at the very end about appreciating a job well done. I think the idea of being able to go back to authentically enjoy things when it was simpler, and Zima being able to actually do it in a way normal humans can't, is also essential to understanding his artwork.
This is perhaps the most fascinating episode in the series and is the only one without any violence or dark theme. Or better saying, this episode is undeniably brilliant.
My favourite among this show! So deep! He had the ability to travel the cosmos and yet he wanted to revert back to his most basic form as that was his greatest joy in life!
I sometimes think that this episode was a representation of Mankind. No matter how much we modify ourselves, or no matter how far we venture into the stars...we will always be drawn back to our little blue planet. I think that is what the Zima Blue represents, the blue of our planet.
I think my favorite part is that he explicitly wants to leave part of what he'd become in there. He doesn't want to just go back to being a mindless drone like some elaborate suicide. He wants to go back to what was essentially his childhood and truly appreciate it for what it was since he didn't have the ability to do it the first time.
I like this idea and feel like it would make the story better… but doesn’t it seem like he annihilates himself and actually does revert back to that mindless, first form?
@@Alfredocap the idea is to go back to how we were created, not necessarily back to his "childhood" but back to his purpose. Everything else was inconsequential. We also divert from our original purpose based on what some philosophers and religious gurus believe. Zima is complete, his creator gave him all that was needed when she allowed him to see color...the rest was unnecessary.
@@Alfredocap If you look closely you can see cables dangling in the water, which weren't there when the girl created him on Earth. I do think he left some extra brainpower in there to appreciate his simpler life.
in that fashion, he wanted to escape the complexity and extential dread that came with knowing and percieving so much about reality as a result of his higher consciousness, something which denied him happiness and the ability to appreciate it all. He embraced simplicity to be able to enjoy the world around him and the joy of a job well done.
1:19 “ My search for truth is finished at last....I’m going home. “ The ways these lines were said, plus the amazing music combined with it in the background, makes this a truly emotional scene. I genuinely cried, and still get really emotional watching the ending to this day.
This actually is the transformation of a human through the years. As kids, all we wanted was to grow up and because of that, we didn’t understand that we were living the best years of our lives. As we grow up, things started to become more complex and therefore, less enjoyable. You know how the elders say that they would give everything to be at our age? They wanted things to be simplier, they would do everything they can just to have one moment without any care, ignoring anything that doesn’t effect us. Like a great man once said, “Ignorance is bliss”
its funny that even at 20 or 18 you already miss it so greatly. We lose that sense of carelessness, that freedom of worry, so early. But you appreciate a lot of what you had, which is nice I guess.
actually I appreciate the memories I made as a child, but I also like the current me, and do not wish to be back as a child, where I didn't think much about the complex ideas in this world.
@@gaudacheese125 Same. I do sometimes wish I could create as I did when I was younger, without the worries that bog me down, but then I remember that I would lose so much in return. Complexities aren't always horrible and sluggish, they are often also fascinating, and I would not give up the knowledge and access I have now for a "simpler life".
This kind of invokes the memories of my teen-aged youth when I finally took interest in computers and internet in Windows 95. I grew ever more knowledgeable over the years, and became a network technician, able to configure and maintain multi-million dollar infrastructures, but sometimes i long for the simple days of my youth when i was just using the computer for fun . My plan is to hopefully one day build a standalone PC with Windows 95, unspoiled by the internet, and return to the 'first love' of my youth, and just simply relive and bask in it
I love that this was his final piece, because it can be a metaphor for human beings living in a world full of materialism. You can be born for a purpose, but other people will try to steer you in a different direction, and then you start listening to them and proceed to do the same. You drift away from your purpose, by trying to learn about the world and what it wants before you learn about yourself. Zima Blue returns back to his original form in the pool, and if you remove Zima Blue from the pool and try to modify him again, you ruin the art piece. Same can be said for people. If you remove a person from what they truly want in life, then you ruin the person.
Like when u kid and skip school or waiting ur cartoon or new game that happens and feeling .. but when becoming older .. yes there alot of things makes happy Ilike money .. love .. jop ..but not like that happens ever
@@jordanloux3883 indeed, he wanted to return to the simplicity of the joy of a job well done for its own merit. He had seen and percieved the truth of reality and advanced himself and his consciousness to profound heights but found no truth or satisfaction in the ever burdening complexity and extential dread which was distracting him from being able to appreciate any of it. So he reduced himself to a form still able to percieve his surroundings and its purpose, fulfilling its task for the simple joy of a job well done.
Zima Blue really is my favorite out of all of these very creative episodes. Not only is it the cleanest episode, it sells a deep message: for everyone to understand your roots and to acknowledge your developments. And the animation show beautiful style especially with it's presentation of beautiful black men and women.💖💖👏
I love how the episode with the most philosophical depth in LD+R was essentially a variation of the "Return to monke" meme. It's at times like this I wonder if memes are more than just random nonsense that make us exhale from our noses and actually help us articulate the unspoken incoherence of the collective consciousness(fears, needs, triumphs) of our internet community.
These existential questions have existed long before memes where even a thing, the Internet giggle, not the Richard Dawkins concept. And yes, though out of idiocy, every modern art form, including memes, though with the least amount of seriousness, can end up raising the same questions.
well said. the word "meme" came from richard dawkins I believe, about the sharing of human ideas/emotions/concepts. they're more profound than we give them credit for
This ending does have many meaning, simplicity is enough for some living, like my accounting teacher said not to think too much about how to solve an accounting problem, just do it as it given to ya.
It's not underrated at all. It's criticism and praise are all simultaneously well deserved. As much as I love it in it's totality, many of the episodes are quite shallow, putting form and imagery over substance. Always dropping you right in the action of things without being willing to do the work to get there. This episode(zima blue) and a few others are what makes it tolerable
This was definitely the best short! It's scary yet fascinating to think about how far AI can go without just doing "AI turns evil" for the millionth time. He reached human level of self awareness, accomplished everything he ever wanted, then got to decided for himself that his life was complete and entered his version of "retirement" since he said he would still leave room for himself to feel joy from a job well done.
That is his original form. He was made a pool cleaning bot, and slowly given more by a human who added parts to him. But even fame, greatness, and all the power he could be given, wasn't enough to satisfy him. So he just returned back to his roots.
This scene is amazing, my favourite scene ever created. This episode made me realize what I want in life and I can't express how thankful I am that this animation helped me with that.
It makes me think of people that achieve much in life but find the achievement wasn’t what makes them happy. It was the moments of clarity doing good work along the way.
I'm a pool cleaner and my mate calls me zima Blue because I work way too much and care way too much. It does feel quite poignant to me though as well, it makes me question how long will I be doing this job? I've put in 15 years so far and where do I go after this, what do I do?. I'm getting too deep now but it just goes to show how good of a story this is, it makes you think and question your own life and what it's all about. So yeah cool shit 10/10
I'm late but If I were you I wouldn't worry. Unlike what the tech companies and academics and even sifi writers say...Most automation is in "cognitive level work." It's the data processors, the inputers, the low level bankers, the receptionists. They are being automated at ever faster rates. Meanwhile, pool cleaners, security guards, construction workers and esspecially the high skill trades like welders, plumbers ect are expanding and doing quite well.
Definitely is up there as a way to explain how humans feel. we grow up and all we want is to have back the simpler things in life. Zimia blue comes across as both brilliant and gorgeous. the animation styling reminds of some the work done in animatix but better executed in terms of the story telling. as they say short but sweet
This work of art resonates with me more than any other. As someone who's spent their life searching for higher meaning, dissatisfied with the reality I'd been given. Studying quantum physics, special relativity, the properties of space time, it's like I never got any closer to an answer. Because the answer was never some complex formula, some astronomical realisation that takes years to understand. It's the foundation of the self that is the answer. Whether the self is an illusion or not doesn't matter, nothing matters. The self is no different than a rock or the waves on the sea, or the tiles lining a swimming pool. It requires no purpose, it simply is, and being anything but content with that reality would be rejecting truth.
You said "nothing matters" when the opposite is part of the truth. The self is no different from the rock, the waves and the tiles, yes, but none of those things exist alone in an empty void.
How rare it is to find something that is so short, yet so moving. What an amazIng piece of sci-fi, makes me want to go back not just to the golden days of the genre with both its existential themes and pure technological speculation, but also to a period when I myself knew what I wanted to do and felt the sureness of even small actions. But I suppose being able to do that would lessen this bittersweet feeling, which itself is worth something in the end...
Its the simplicity of everything nit being so complicated .....he simply wanted peace...but the journey of art mad ehim realize thats all he wanted ....so deep yet so simple
This is basically in line with Rousseau's philosophy. In his opinion, the more humans stray away from their wild nature and gain knowledge which they transform into progress, the more they become unhappy and unsatisfied, trying to fill holes that can't be filled with goods and consumerism. Zima returns to its 'primal' state so that he can leave behind all the worries that come with learning to contemplate life for other purposes beyond satisfying primary needs.
David Goggins is Zima Blue but in real life. Pushing himself to his truest potential, unlocking mental blocks and truly showing the world what us humans are capable. Beautiful analogy I think
Ironic that in humanity's quest to advance so far ahead, none of them ever thought of asking what the machine wanted. It understands its most basic and original purpose in life, is the one that it needed. It knew it wasn't built for greatness, and rejected all these upgrades that were plugged into it, just because humans weren't satisfied or content.
I'm 28 I have my own shop and my own job I work most of the time I have plenty of money something I never thought I'd had . Sometimes I wish I can go back to my room just play some videogames all day like before . No amount of money can bring that feeling of peace and freedom like when I was a child .
I guess he knew too much and live for so long that he realized he was happy before he had a brain, must’ve been the worst day of his life when his mother died
I watched it the first time and didn't think much of it but it's been living in my head for the longest time. It's beautiful and I just... Just love it
Logró encontrar su paz que no era el arte si no una existencia simple pero suficiente para apreciar su azul, pudo ser inmortal y modificar toda la existencia misma pero sabía que no era su respuesta que sería más de lo mismo al hacerlo iba por un camino eterno y equivocado después de que medito y comparó su existencia pasada, la actual y probable existencia futura decidió la que le daba no todo, si no lo que necesitaba sin el ruido de la ambición. Una existencia donde tal vez no sea ni consciente de sí mismo, solo lo suficiente para apreciar su primer azul, su primer recuerdo 😊
I don't know but what I felt is , As we go more forward in life , reach great heights , and when we reach the oldage , we really don't need the money nor the luxury, we just wanna be happy . Then we think about small things we do as a child and how it made us happy for doing simple things . So here he's going HOME , his search ends ....... HOME is where we grow up isn't it ?
Broke: advanced AI gains intelligence and learns to hate humanity Woke: advanced AI gains intelligence and learns to appreciate the beauty of life and the simple pleasures of living
I was stunned after watching this one wow what a great story!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 after all the success and fame, never get fully satisfied, until he found the truth, getting back to the original form
In his search for truth he found that there isn't any. But in the process of finding it he burdened himself with awareness, ambition and the never ending thirst for knowledge. Such a restless existence can become tiresome when you can live for eons. So, he reverted to his primal self, to be able to enjoy simples things with the need for having a reason or meaning to do it.
Machine gains consciousness, but only wishes to return to a simple, happier point in his life. A very human desire.
Well, he was turned into a human at some point
I think this interpretation is completely valid, and I would love to add onto it.
Why did he become an artist? Why did he choose do this as an exhibit and do so much in order to make a show of it (including inviting in a journalist who he knew would help further proliferate his work), if he only wanted to return to a simpler and happier point in his life? Since this is such a personal thing, why not do it privately, instead of making a spectacle out of it?
I think this episode can be framed as a couple of things. One, as an examination of art and also an example of why some artists do the things they do. When I watched this for the first time, learning about his backstory completely reframed all his past artworks. I think the form of art shown in this episode is fundamentally a way of communication and expression. Sometimes, the best art comes from people who has experienced something they are driven to explore and share their point of view with other people. The first analogue who comes to mind is James Turrell. Turrell is an artist obsessed with light. Every piece of artwork is about working with light, turning light into an object instead of being a medium to reveal other objects, or distort the perception of space using light. One of his pieces that he's been working on for decades (starting in 1974), Roden Crater, is still incomplete. In one interview, he touched upon the ways his experiences with light and his childhood and his origin in quaker faith all blended together. In some ways, I personally view his artwork as a culmination of his religious association with light at childhood and the ways it shaped his perception of the world. In another interview, I think Turrell talked about how understanding perception of light would be the closest he can get to understanding God.
But Turrell became an artist of all things--he chose to share and express his obsession with light with an audience. Some of his artworks seems clearly designed to communicate and share a sense of awe with light and space.
I think Zima is the same way. I think through this lens, Zima is not JUST a person who wished to return to a simpler time. This episode also showcases a very human desire to express oneself. So in light of that, what is Zima's artwork saying? Again, I think the desire to return to a simpler time in his life is a very good and sound interpretation of his artwork.
But I also think back to his previous artworks, and can't help but feel like his final piece of artwork is also a continuation of what he has been saying the entire time. A gorgeous painting of the cosmos, with zima blue at the very center. A gargantuan blue slate towering over viewers. Another solid interpretation is that this artwork is an extension of Zima desperately struggling to recover the important memories he's lost, and these giant artworks make the viewer feel like he did once a upon a time, when those pool slates were as big as the universe to him.
But I also think you can flip this entirely on its head. You can see Zima as someone trying to explore something, but every piece of his artwork is confidently making a declaration on top of his personal exploration. His artwork already knew and understood what he himself was struggling to understand. You can see it in the very first painting. It's no coincidence that the painting is of the universe with zima blue at the center. There's a very simple and literal conclusion you can make:
Zima Blue is in the center of the universe. Zima Blue is the universe. Zima Blue is as important as the universe. It is on par with everything grand. Something as small and as forgotten as Zima Blue is as important as the most awesome things in the world, because Zima Blue makes Zima feel and see the Universe itself. Every part of his artwork is a declaration stating this as fact.
The final Pool piece simply revealed or confirmed that's what he was saying the entire time. And like many pieces of artworks, the more specific and granular/personal its focus is, the more universal it can feel to everyone. Because the full implication of Zima's art portfolio communicates an idea that has been done before, but expresses it in an emotionally novel way: anything you love or fixate on, no matter how mundane or abstract or small, is also as profound as the universe itself because of the way it makes you feel. Embrace the Zima Blue in your life, because it IS the universe and it's the medium in which you can see and experience the universe for what it is. Again, very similar to Turrell and his pursuit of God through light.
This is why I LOVE Zima Blue as an animation short. It somehow manages to tie a complete self-contained story alongside a complete and fulfilling artistic declaration about the universe all in a very short time-frame. Absolutely peak science-fiction storytelling.
@@Hoberpopkin
That idea of expressing the simplest desire on a grand scale is deeply profound. My interpretation feels shallow (ha ha) in comparison.
@@sciencefantastic Not shallow at all! I think your interpretation is also very important and accurate, in light of what he says at the very end about appreciating a job well done. I think the idea of being able to go back to authentically enjoy things when it was simpler, and Zima being able to actually do it in a way normal humans can't, is also essential to understanding his artwork.
@@Hoberpopkin*insert "WTF?" like the orange robot from the episode of the 3 robots*
"Anyone with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child" -Tim Burton
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
-Mark Twain
"a weapon to surpass metal gear" - Dalai Lama, Summer of 1742
"If there is a hole, then there is a way"
- The something of war, by Some Chinese dude idk
Can deff tell you why. My parents shagged
Die young and leave a beautiful corpse- someone who likes fucking corpses
“You have 24 hours to wire me 100k or you never see your children again” -Me
This is perhaps the most fascinating episode in the series and is the only one without any violence or dark theme. Or better saying, this episode is undeniably brilliant.
I agree 100%
This episode is what really told me this series was something special
The only adult episode
@@magicman3163 Not really.
Final Art: Black square in Blue.
This is the pinnacle of sci-fi. No flashy weapons or bad ass main characters, just existential themes well executed into an animated masterpiece.
this is the true scifi genre
I mean... Zima humanoid form is pretty badass.
My favourite among this show! So deep!
He had the ability to travel the cosmos and yet he wanted to revert back to his most basic form as that was his greatest joy in life!
I sometimes think that this episode was a representation of Mankind. No matter how much we modify ourselves, or no matter how far we venture into the stars...we will always be drawn back to our little blue planet. I think that is what the Zima Blue represents, the blue of our planet.
We seek to learn everything about everything except ourselves, & once we do , we learn that the simplest way of living is by simply living 💯 💭
@@tenaciouslife21 "I couldn't decide whether the blue was a closer match to the sky or the sea..."
I wonder how old he was, anyone want to venture a guess.?
@@vipersuphere he said he’s over 100 years old
"Reject sentience, return to automaton."
- Zima
He did it: in his own way, he returned to Monke.
Return to Pool
Sapience*
I think my favorite part is that he explicitly wants to leave part of what he'd become in there.
He doesn't want to just go back to being a mindless drone like some elaborate suicide. He wants to go back to what was essentially his childhood and truly appreciate it for what it was since he didn't have the ability to do it the first time.
I like this idea and feel like it would make the story better… but doesn’t it seem like he annihilates himself and actually does revert back to that mindless, first form?
@@Alfredocap the idea is to go back to how we were created, not necessarily back to his "childhood" but back to his purpose. Everything else was inconsequential.
We also divert from our original purpose based on what some philosophers and religious gurus believe. Zima is complete, his creator gave him all that was needed when she allowed him to see color...the rest was unnecessary.
@@Alfredocap If you look closely you can see cables dangling in the water, which weren't there when the girl created him on Earth. I do think he left some extra brainpower in there to appreciate his simpler life.
@@Park_Place at 1:00 he literally says "unmaking myself, leaving just enough to appreciate my surroundings"
in that fashion, he wanted to escape the complexity and extential dread that came with knowing and percieving so much about reality as a result of his higher consciousness, something which denied him happiness and the ability to appreciate it all. He embraced simplicity to be able to enjoy the world around him and the joy of a job well done.
1:19 “ My search for truth is finished at last....I’m going home. “
The ways these lines were said, plus the amazing music combined with it in the background, makes this a truly emotional scene. I genuinely cried, and still get really emotional watching the ending to this day.
do you happen to know the piano music in the background? :)
same here . . tears overflow my eyes everytime with whatever u said..
Lmao
@@elpikar5548 haven't you found it?
@@kaz_breaker no :(
He rejected humanity, Jojo
Return to bot
@@llkk2810 Return to beep
He never was, he returned to his primal order.
nani?!
is this a jojo reference?!
This actually is the transformation of a human through the years. As kids, all we wanted was to grow up and because of that, we didn’t understand that we were living the best years of our lives. As we grow up, things started to become more complex and therefore, less enjoyable. You know how the elders say that they would give everything to be at our age? They wanted things to be simplier, they would do everything they can just to have one moment without any care, ignoring anything that doesn’t effect us. Like a great man once said, “Ignorance is bliss”
its funny that even at 20 or 18 you already miss it so greatly. We lose that sense of carelessness, that freedom of worry, so early. But you appreciate a lot of what you had, which is nice I guess.
And most encourage us youth to cherish each moment of our lives. Those that lived a fulfilled life.
actually I appreciate the memories I made as a child, but I also like the current me, and do not wish to be back as a child, where I didn't think much about the complex ideas in this world.
@@gaudacheese125 Same. I do sometimes wish I could create as I did when I was younger, without the worries that bog me down, but then I remember that I would lose so much in return. Complexities aren't always horrible and sluggish, they are often also fascinating, and I would not give up the knowledge and access I have now for a "simpler life".
Zima Blue is honestly one of the greatest things I ever witnessed.
I realized beside this very deep founding of self realization, humility, the animation and art form reminds me of DisneyXd tron uprising.
Imagine a tron episode from LD+R
The artist you’re looking for is Robert Valley.
It reminded me 90s Batman animation
Same studio
"My search for truth is finished at last, I’m going home" that line gets me every time
This is the most emotional scene I've ever seen, Almost made me cry.
Or is it making me cry right now
Im not gonna lie, this broke me..!!
Same here.
Suddenly "return to monke" makes more sense.
What we wanted in real life:
What we got in real life: Monkey virus
This is a machine reaching a state of nirvana.
This kind of invokes the memories of my teen-aged youth when I finally took interest in computers and internet in Windows 95. I grew ever more knowledgeable over the years, and became a network technician, able to configure and maintain multi-million dollar infrastructures, but sometimes i long for the simple days of my youth when i was just using the computer for fun .
My plan is to hopefully one day build a standalone PC with Windows 95, unspoiled by the internet, and return to the 'first love' of my youth, and just simply relive and bask in it
gl with that man, gotta enjoy your life.
Do it
its impossible. I truly envy Zima
I love that this was his final piece, because it can be a metaphor for human beings living in a world full of materialism. You can be born for a purpose, but other people will try to steer you in a different direction, and then you start listening to them and proceed to do the same. You drift away from your purpose, by trying to learn about the world and what it wants before you learn about yourself. Zima Blue returns back to his original form in the pool, and if you remove Zima Blue from the pool and try to modify him again, you ruin the art piece. Same can be said for people. If you remove a person from what they truly want in life, then you ruin the person.
Hm, I like that. Thank you.
this episode was hands down one of the best things ive ever watched in my whole life
Like when u kid and skip school or waiting ur cartoon or new game that happens and feeling .. but when becoming older .. yes there alot of things makes happy Ilike money .. love .. jop ..but not like that happens ever
Most powerful scene ever created imo
>"I will immerse myself."
>Refuses to elaborate further
>Dives in
Zima isn't fulfilled by the fame and fortune. He wants to return to a time when life was simple and he didn't need to impress people to be happy.
@@jordanloux3883 indeed, he wanted to return to the simplicity of the joy of a job well done for its own merit. He had seen and percieved the truth of reality and advanced himself and his consciousness to profound heights but found no truth or satisfaction in the ever burdening complexity and extential dread which was distracting him from being able to appreciate any of it. So he reduced himself to a form still able to percieve his surroundings and its purpose, fulfilling its task for the simple joy of a job well done.
I'd like to believe that the final speech was a voiceover given before or after he took the dive. That way everyone would understand.
Zima Blue really is my favorite out of all of these very creative episodes. Not only is it the cleanest episode, it sells a deep message: for everyone to understand your roots and to acknowledge your developments. And the animation show beautiful style especially with it's presentation of beautiful black men and women.💖💖👏
"Cleanest" haha nice pun
he's blue not black
@@gamerstheater1187 Does your head make a rattling sound when you nod?
We need more stories like this, stories that make you reflect your own existence with a peaceful and comforting sense.
Oh yes.
I love how the episode with the most philosophical depth in LD+R was essentially a variation of the "Return to monke" meme. It's at times like this I wonder if memes are more than just random nonsense that make us exhale from our noses and actually help us articulate the unspoken incoherence of the collective consciousness(fears, needs, triumphs) of our internet community.
@Filippo Cusini memes, the dna of the soul
These existential questions have existed long before memes where even a thing, the Internet giggle, not the Richard Dawkins concept.
And yes, though out of idiocy, every modern art form, including memes, though with the least amount of seriousness, can end up raising the same questions.
He’s not dead he’s just a pool cleaner
You’re really pretentious and clearly a cringey Gen z child
well said. the word "meme" came from richard dawkins I believe, about the sharing of human ideas/emotions/concepts. they're more profound than we give them credit for
What I love most about this movie is that it’s revolved around my favorite color
Blue
i'm going home
This ending does have many meaning, simplicity is enough for some living, like my accounting teacher said not to think too much about how to solve an accounting problem, just do it as it given to ya.
It’s just crazy how underrated this show is
It's not underrated at all. It's criticism and praise are all simultaneously well deserved. As much as I love it in it's totality, many of the episodes are quite shallow, putting form and imagery over substance. Always dropping you right in the action of things without being willing to do the work to get there. This episode(zima blue) and a few others are what makes it tolerable
That part broke me in so many levels
I can respect that he loved his simple life and work and wanted to go back to doing what he loved
This was definitely the best short! It's scary yet fascinating to think about how far AI can go without just doing "AI turns evil" for the millionth time. He reached human level of self awareness, accomplished everything he ever wanted, then got to decided for himself that his life was complete and entered his version of "retirement" since he said he would still leave room for himself to feel joy from a job well done.
A robot that got slowly turned into a man to then turn himself into a super human robot to then turn himself back to a robot that cleans pools. Nice.
He was basically going back to Simpler times.
He became a goddamn Roomba. Legend.
That is his original form. He was made a pool cleaning bot, and slowly given more by a human who added parts to him. But even fame, greatness, and all the power he could be given, wasn't enough to satisfy him. So he just returned back to his roots.
"And then he turned himself into a roomba. Funniest shit I've ever seen"
This scene is amazing, my favourite scene ever created. This episode made me realize what I want in life and I can't express how thankful I am that this animation helped me with that.
This was so beautiful it totally exceeded even my wildest expectations this series was wonderful
I love how 0:21 is reminiscent of his works immediately prior to his final performance
It makes me think of people that achieve much in life but find the achievement wasn’t what makes them happy. It was the moments of clarity doing good work along the way.
I'm a pool cleaner and my mate calls me zima Blue because I work way too much and care way too much. It does feel quite poignant to me though as well, it makes me question how long will I be doing this job? I've put in 15 years so far and where do I go after this, what do I do?. I'm getting too deep now but it just goes to show how good of a story this is, it makes you think and question your own life and what it's all about. So yeah cool shit 10/10
I'm late but If I were you I wouldn't worry. Unlike what the tech companies and academics and even sifi writers say...Most automation is in "cognitive level work." It's the data processors, the inputers, the low level bankers, the receptionists. They are being automated at ever faster rates.
Meanwhile, pool cleaners, security guards, construction workers and esspecially the high skill trades like welders, plumbers ect are expanding and doing quite well.
Make a CZcams channel of you cleaning pools. People love before and after videos!
@@genmaicha.lapsang Also one I never would have expected is lawyers. It's Legal automation software.
Puts a knot in my throat every time I watch it.
I cry everytime i see this
"I'm blue, dabadee dabadie."
LD&R: "Interesting, let's see where this leads."
he really went back to square one.
For me is the best episode thank Netflix for this art and psycologize experience
The simple things in life are stuff we sometimes take for granted.
Definitely is up there as a way to explain how humans feel. we grow up and all we want is to have back the simpler things in life. Zimia blue comes across as both brilliant and gorgeous. the animation styling reminds of some the work done in animatix but better executed in terms of the story telling. as they say short but sweet
Zima story taught me the more you have experienced everything, the more you want to experience nothing
First time I watched this it made me cry..
Me too
This work of art resonates with me more than any other. As someone who's spent their life searching for higher meaning, dissatisfied with the reality I'd been given. Studying quantum physics, special relativity, the properties of space time, it's like I never got any closer to an answer. Because the answer was never some complex formula, some astronomical realisation that takes years to understand. It's the foundation of the self that is the answer. Whether the self is an illusion or not doesn't matter, nothing matters. The self is no different than a rock or the waves on the sea, or the tiles lining a swimming pool. It requires no purpose, it simply is, and being anything but content with that reality would be rejecting truth.
Interesting post!
You said "nothing matters" when the opposite is part of the truth. The self is no different from the rock, the waves and the tiles, yes, but none of those things exist alone in an empty void.
Moral is humans think too much when in the end we are very simple creatures
How rare it is to find something that is so short, yet so moving. What an amazIng piece of sci-fi, makes me want to go back not just to the golden days of the genre with both its existential themes and pure technological speculation, but also to a period when I myself knew what I wanted to do and felt the sureness of even small actions. But I suppose being able to do that would lessen this bittersweet feeling, which itself is worth something in the end...
first episode i watch in the whole series and i gotta say it made me emotional and cried like LOTS
This is the best episode
return to monke
ahahahahah
Spend most our lives complicating it to find complete happiness, only to realize stripping it down is what gets us the closest.
I cried. His search for meaning is over. Just the appreciation of his surroundings and a task well done is all that's left. Beautiful.
Its the simplicity of everything nit being so complicated .....he simply wanted peace...but the journey of art mad ehim realize thats all he wanted ....so deep yet so simple
It was this series that made a huge impression. The best episode in the entire series for me.
The ost is so sweet
The only EVER animation or film or series that made me cry
This is basically in line with Rousseau's philosophy. In his opinion, the more humans stray away from their wild nature and gain knowledge which they transform into progress, the more they become unhappy and unsatisfied, trying to fill holes that can't be filled with goods and consumerism. Zima returns to its 'primal' state so that he can leave behind all the worries that come with learning to contemplate life for other purposes beyond satisfying primary needs.
David Goggins is Zima Blue but in real life. Pushing himself to his truest potential, unlocking mental blocks and truly showing the world what us humans are capable. Beautiful analogy I think
Talk about coming full circle.
Ironic that in humanity's quest to advance so far ahead, none of them ever thought of asking what the machine wanted. It understands its most basic and original purpose in life, is the one that it needed. It knew it wasn't built for greatness, and rejected all these upgrades that were plugged into it, just because humans weren't satisfied or content.
The episode with probably the least budget is the best episode they made. Perfection.
I'm 28 I have my own shop and my own job I work most of the time I have plenty of money something I never thought I'd had . Sometimes I wish I can go back to my room just play some videogames all day like before . No amount of money can bring that feeling of peace and freedom like when I was a child .
I'm left speechless and inspired. Powerful episode.
I guess he knew too much and live for so long that he realized he was happy before he had a brain, must’ve been the worst day of his life when his mother died
This episode messed with my head so much
One of my favs..wished there was a full movie of this.
I still remember doing little tasks and helping everyone in childhood gave immense peace which is long gone and it feels miserable
Zen story, truly amazing !!
I watched it the first time and didn't think much of it but it's been living in my head for the longest time. It's beautiful and I just... Just love it
Best episode, this got me kinde emotional
Logró encontrar su paz que no era el arte si no una existencia simple pero suficiente para apreciar su azul, pudo ser inmortal y modificar toda la existencia misma pero sabía que no era su respuesta que sería más de lo mismo al hacerlo iba por un camino eterno y equivocado después de que medito y comparó su existencia pasada, la actual y probable existencia futura decidió la que le daba no todo, si no lo que necesitaba sin el ruido de la ambición.
Una existencia donde tal vez no sea ni consciente de sí mismo, solo lo suficiente para apreciar su primer azul, su primer recuerdo 😊
You will never find a more moving story about a pool roomba
prove me wrong
Ignorance is bliss, the simple pleasures of life.
But curiousity would lead you on the read again
My favorite episode in the 2 seasons so far.
I don't know but what I felt is ,
As we go more forward in life , reach great heights , and when we reach the oldage , we really don't need the money nor the luxury, we just wanna be happy .
Then we think about small things we do as a child and how it made us happy for doing simple things .
So here he's going HOME , his search ends .......
HOME is where we grow up isn't it ?
The most beautiful last few lines
Broke: advanced AI gains intelligence and learns to hate humanity
Woke: advanced AI gains intelligence and learns to appreciate the beauty of life and the simple pleasures of living
Maybe this is where AI will end up. We’ll create these powerful thinking machines that would rather be pocket calculators.
Loved this episode. The simple things in life are worth the most
*Can't find the music 😭😭😭*
Sometime the simple things are the best
i cried so much in this ep lol
The most beautiful piece of art you can experience on Netflix...
God bless LD+R
A big parallelism with the meaning of citizen kane's Rosebud word
What a cute little robot Blue is after dismantling his advanced upgrades off of his old body.
What is the piano song called?
did you find it??
@@elpikar5548 and you?
@@mikhailsochi3781 nothing :(
It’s like mushishi’s soundtrack
Late reply but it was produced by Ben Locket. Did some good research but I figured it out
fav.. this and Aquila Rift, unforgettables..
Absolute Truth of Enlightenment. As well as the best episode and part of the episode! Pay attention. Remember. Annnd Remember aaaand Remember !
Beautiful.... nuff said!
I was stunned after watching this one wow what a great story!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 after all the success and fame, never get fully satisfied, until he found the truth, getting back to the original form
Basically the Terminator wanting to go back to being a Roomba.
Soma blue reminded me of both the Dr Manhattan character and Rutger Hauer in the final scene of blade Runner
This was actually the first one I watched & I was in awe of it... then that was it for love death and robots. New season is gonna be amazing
In his search for truth he found that there isn't any. But in the process of finding it he burdened himself with awareness, ambition and the never ending thirst for knowledge. Such a restless existence can become tiresome when you can live for eons. So, he reverted to his primal self, to be able to enjoy simples things with the need for having a reason or meaning to do it.
This needs to be archived in the Congress Library. Let generation witness the masterpiece that is Zima Blue.
From abstraction to practical. Brilliant. I'd argue it displays the essence of art and how it evolved from the work of man.