Makoto Shinkai's Suzume: A Deeply Misunderstood Masterpiece (Analysis)

The focus is not on romantic love but on collective grief and mutual recovery, on finding closure by providing it to others. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thejoshuafagan And follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheJoshuaAFagan And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joshua.fagan.35 And check out my blog: http://jfmillenniumreviews.blogspot.com/ Description: Welcome to my channel! Here you will find analyses of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Dragon Prince, The Owl House, and other geeky things. If you're an Avatar diehard like me, I think you'll like what you see. Ekam sad vipra bahunda vadanti (Sanskrit, translated in English, it's: "The truth is one; learned people speak of it in different ways.") Perhaps, she says, long ages past away, And set in western waves our closing day, Night, Gothic night, again may shade the plains Where Power is seated, and where Science reigns; England, the seat of arts, be only known By the gray ruin and the mouldering stone -Anna Barbauld, 1811 The country is smashed, mountains and river remain Trees and rivers grow deep in the city's spring Moved by the times, flowers are splashed with tears. Hating separation, birds have frightened hearts. Signal fires have burned for three months unceasing A letter from home is worth ten thousand in gold. I scratch my white hair, ever bare Not enough left for a hairpin. -Du Fu, A View of Spring One lives, knows and has one’s being in the blood, without any reference to nerves and brain. This is one half of life, belonging to the darkness. -D.H. Lawrence to Bertrand Russell Quid rides? Mutato nomine et de te fabula narratur. -Horace, Satires, 1.1.69-70 Die ich rief, die Geister, / Werd ich nun nicht los. -Goethe, The Sorceror's Apprentice The music I use during my videos is an ethereal piece called "Vales of Light," which I wrote and performed. Here's a link to the piece if you want to listen to it outside the context of my analyses: https://youtu.be/ubIFB4t5cHc Traditionally, the music I used for most of these videos was the Eryth Sea theme from Xenoblade Chronicles. Thanks for watching. Adios, comrades!