It's About a YouTuber with Cancer

people good morning John so last week I watched a movie called Puss in Boots the last wish which is a weird movie because it is about a YouTuber who gets cancer and I know what you're thinking you're thinking Hank no that's a movie about a cat who has boots but hear me out so there's this cat and he's a performer an Entertainer he is loved by his whole entire town he uses his Charisma to redistribute money to communities that need it the most and ultimately maybe he over invests in managing how he is perceived by a large group of people who don't actually know him that well and maybe he under invests in deeper relationships on the outside he seems motivated by having a good time but maybe deeper down he's actually more motivated by fear fear of being hurt fear of being perceived negatively fear of losing his status and now I gotta take a little bit of a side quest here and tell you that while cancer is currently named after crabs which is weird in the medieval period normal folks would call cancer simply the wolf and who is the absolutely unnecessarily scary villain in Puss and Boots The Last Wish no I'm not talking about Big Jack Horner who yes is an antagonist and yes is unnecessarily scary no the True Villain is obviously the wolf so one day Puss in Boots is having just an amazing time but then he loses the eighth of his Nine Lives I don't know I never count it I am not really a math guy and then this bounty hunter simply appears and this isn't The Great Gatsby they're not trying to cover it up they do eventually just come out and say it don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theoretically or any other fancy way I'm deaf but they didn't have to like he fights with two sickles and they each have eight little kitties on them with an X scratched through them the wolf is death the cat is the screenwriter and Puss in Boots finds that he has always been able to fight anyone and has no fear now runs away terrified of we think and he thinks the smell of fear but is it death that he is afraid of or is it something else you gotta wait to find out so Puss and Boots runs away and he begins to form accidentally a little family there's a romantic interest who's named Kitty Soft Paws I have a romantic interest her name is Catherine and her hands are soft and they kind of adopt a son who's a terrible looking Chihuahua with a heart of gold and I have a son who isn't terrible looking he's actually very cute and he has a heart of you know it he's six he's working on it so as Puss in Boots develops these relationships it starts to become clear that what he's afraid of Isn't So Much Death it's his own fear of death puss really freaks out not when confronted by death but when he starts to feel afraid that's why he left Kitty Soft Paws at the altar I run away enter oh oh oh and it's why him running away is always preceded by his fur beginning to stand on end he's not running away from Death he's running away from his fear of death not to get too deep into spoilers here I promise there's lots of amazing stuff I'm moving out and it is on Netflix right now he develops ways of dealing with his fear which includes get this deeper relationships with his new family and then he is confronted by all of his former lives and all of the things that he's done and loved doing in the past but that didn't have the depth of the ways that he feels appreciated and loved by his family and his former selves well they are appalled to see him turn away from them but he wants to you guys have jerks very conflicting for me in the end Puss in Boots ends up afraid of death but not afraid of his fear this anxiety stops piling and piling and piling on top of him and in that moment the cat the YouTuber is able to fight the wolf death while knowing that there is no way to ultimately defeat it if you beat Death this time you will be fighting death again but he's gonna keep fighting as much as he can for as long as he can because it's not about looking good for the crowd it's about preserving what he loves which is time with his family and his friends and when he wins the particular fight with death that he has at the end of the movie he recognizes that there is another day coming when he will not you know we will meet again right see Hasta la Muerte and none of that means that Puss in Boots doesn't want to continue doing big interesting amazing adventurous things he still loves that stuff he loves to make things for people but knowing that the next fight with death could happen at any time and may indeed be the last one gives him A New Perspective and he realizes that he both needs and wants more than he had in all of his former lives look I don't know why you make a kids movie that's definitely about coming to terms with your mortality as a middle-aged professional Entertainer but I'm glad they did John I finally found my Penguins of Madagascar I'll see you on Tuesday

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Length: 5min 23sec (323 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 11 2023