In this video essay, I explore how the film “Midnight in Paris” perfectly depicts how art consuls the human heart, and why that is so important.
“Art is the most beautiful in the rain.”
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Gosh, I love Midnight In Paris. It's a movie I watch multiple times a year. What do you think of it? Thanks for watching!
Hi! I just wanna say I loved this video, it was great! I also have a question, which movies are those that appear in the intro? Especially that one where it appears a man crying in what it seems a cinema? Thank you and good well done!
Love this movie, the actors for all the greats were so well cast, did a great job. It has become one of my all time favorite movies.
This video provides me consolation in a way to be aware of how I feel
I'm bummed out that this video is criminally underrated
Josh! You're a talnted writer. I really like how have you connected the introduction about the lost generation to the heart of the topic: Art and then concluded both by the midnight in paris film.
Paris is more beautiful in the rain because it washes away the piss and filth and sensible people go inside to get out of the rain.
Sometimes i wonder if i had complete peace if i would be extremely bored or if i wouldnt enjoy art anymore. At the end of a horrible discussion with someone i love i sing angry karaoke, or i play the guitar and try to write about why i felt how i felt and how we could solve it even if those lyrics wont affect the reality. There was also a time when university felt so heavy to me, i started taking painting clases on Saturday mornings again, and my mom often asked my how could i wake up so early after such long weeks, to go so far just to paint with old ladies under trees, and it was bc i was runing away or finding confort on the art i was making with other people that needed art just like me. People that constitute a family like only crowds in concerts, viewers in theaters or fans in conventions could.
I would love to say i face all of my problems, but there is such health in the balance of solving them but also hiding from time to time, hiding inside an old art deco building, or behind a brush with purple paint, behind a piano, a pen or maybe just in front of someonelses piece.
Great video, short, concise and true. Thanks very much!!!!!!!!!!!!
A great film. My favourite scene: Gil in the bar with the surrealists and Dali's rhinoceros.
Dude! Your voice and the flow alongside your interpretation and your voice is just… Perfect! Superb content. You got a subscriber 🍻
A few errors in your video. The image you show when you say Ernest Hemingway's name is actually of Ezra Pound. It's also 'The Lost Generation'. Not the 'Missing' generation.
I am an artist, a painter. I immersed myself in Art to escape the ugliness going on around me growing up.
We are alchemists. 😘👋
This review really spoke to me as an Enneagram 4w3. I will watch this movie! Looking forward to your Type 4 movie compilation.
You should make more videos ♥️ Love from Bangladesh
I enjoyed this movie when it first came out for its interesting story and good filmmaking . Years later after reading Hemingway, especially ‘A Moveable Feast’ this movie really came alive for me, and I feel very strongly with Gil and his desire to be there during that incredible time.
You know dude, even though this video will probably never have a million views, I think you've cemented yourself as a great artist and philosopher. Maybe not in the professional sense, but these kind of films make art more beautiful and meaningful for people, and that is a great gift to share with the world, which is all artists really do. You've got your place in history now, along with Fitzgerald and Hemingway, even if it's a small corner of youtube.
min 4:30 "Art is the most beautiful in the PAIN"
Love this. So true.
This film literally moved me so much I "moved" to France to work as a photographer. A wonderfully romantic idyll and your essay does it very well. Thank you.
my 14 year old brain is blown because this is so beautiful
READ BOETHIUS' "CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY."
This video is boring. And I do not find consolation in this film.
This is a gorgeous essay! @Josh Keefe, have you seen Cezanne et moi? It's a french film about the french impressionist Paul Cezanne's tumultuous and life-long friendship with Emile Zola. In my opinion, it is thematically similar to Midnight in Paris. Plus, it's a gorgeous film 🙂
Excellent video
Thank you so much I watch this thinking it was some space travel to help a man out of a bit of loneliness but this really open my eyes in a new light of the movie.
Such a beautiful movie, Owen Wilson was fantastic in his role easily his best performance, I've always found him charming and likeable but never really loved a movie he was in until now, a very thought provoking movie, don't look to the past, live in the now, and the music is absolutely beautiful as well and fits the film wonderfully
Just watched midnight in Paris w my dad and grandparents and lemme tell ya……. this analysis aged WELL. Great job bro!!!! @joshkeefe
Fantastic!
Rain can be beautiful in the night. Day not so much.
Thanks
Nice one. You mistake Hemingway for Ezra Pound at 1:15 though
Bro This is so good…
i am not even cristian but this great, i am obsessed with your videos, thanks
Love this movie
Love this movie
I can’t even imagine how much time you put JUST into the script… excellent videos as always, thank you for your hard work, love (all of) your videos
I love your videos, they truly inspire me. It's hard being surrounded by people that focus on things I consider superficial. You often have to just accept it and go do your own thing, in my case Art. I love you people, bless you. Listen to your heart and go realise what truly feels right, apart from social expectations: but what truly is good for everyone.
I watched midnight in Paris and I absolutely loved it. Something I wanna watch with my wife when I get married.
What's the name of the movie at 1:40 ?
I love how this movie just has a minute or two at the beginning showing Paris in the rain.
Any other movie would have used this time to show the credits, but this movie doesn’t do that. It just shows the beauty of the city, unfiltered and unspoiled.
Amazing insights and a wonderful thought process 🙂 You're doing an amazing job <3
What film is at 1:40?
great video, this is the 3rd or 4th video of yours that i've watched so far… I am going to binge-watch your videos all night. Thank you again and great work!!!
Amen Brother Owen xxxxxxc from one Screen Writer to another xx Caryl 💖
And of course the woman Owen encounters is French actress Lea Seydoux, a rain in France's countryside.
That quote at the end.. I’m going to cling to that. That’s impactful.
The importance of life. I had to come back and watch this video one more time as a reminder of what's really important, what's speaking to us in times like this, when the material world is shaking and might be crumbling down any minute. In the words of Dr. Jordan Peterson and many consciences before him, it is in chaos we find ourselves trying to think and make order of things, that's how new things emerge, out of ruins of the old. Seize the opportunity to understand and enjoy it.
Thank you so much man, Thank you so much. I needed this. I have been studying in an art school for the past 4 years, and over the semesters i have gotten a harder and harder heart against the anti-god nature of so much contemporary art. I felt like i didn't belong. God kept assuring me he has me where he wants me to be, but I would doubt him. I doubted wether anyone would care about what I create. But I thank you for allowing me to be inspired in this way, for lifting me up again by seeing the beauty and potential of art.
The movie is beautiful and your essay hits a bullseye for me, but I cannot shake off the feeling that the main character is extremely infantile – he doesn't do anything to improve his life or change things to the better, even his body language contributes to that impression. I'd say, from a psychological point of view, he is a child in his mind who escapes from reality into fantasy where there are acceptance, friendship, love, mentors – all that he won't have to do anything about his real life and lack of acceptance.
I suppose, the parallel is exactly to The Lost Generation, but the main character didn't suffer the war or extreme trauma that left him in the need of escape – he just doesn't want to take responsibility for his life and runs into fantasy…
What a beautiful video!