The Mistakes that End Love

[Music] oh [Music] [Music] yeah I spent much longer than I'd like to admit wondering how to open this video a balance of a tension catching hook while respecting the topic and achieving a tone that fits it just the same but I'm nowhere close to mastering that level of blending comedy and poignance that Satoshi Khan exhibited in today's topic Tokyo Godfathers and so I figured letting his work speak for itself was the best option that scene of these three unhoused individuals Hannah gin and miuki finding a child that they name Kiyoko in the garbage occurs in its first few minutes and then the remainder of the film is a wild and vibrant Journey full of all kinds of people as they try to find her mother and understand the situation in full is she someone who can or should care for this child is there anything she could say or do that proves against what she's shown so far that as gin says they ask because of the quandra which comes from them being the ones to find it Hannah a transom living in a shared space on the streets with the other two finds a great deal of validation in this occurrence even saying that since they found her on Christmas Kiyoko was a gift from God the one who she says made a mistake with her gender however as gin and Miyuki point out how could they properly care for a child when they can hardly provide for themselves living off of scavenged materials and small purchases worrying a lot over just one day's train Fair another mouth de feed is even less possible than we usually think of but on the other hand this is a discarded child are they simply going to turn it over to the authorities where it might just be shuttled around from home to home for its entire childhood anah herself was abandoned as a child and so she speaks an experience when she stops on the way of turning Kiyoko over to the authorities and says there are many possibilities in this situation but two opposites stand out to be stable but without love or to be loved without stability faced with this decision a trade-off indicative of everything which has pushed us so far forward as a species only to hold us back as individuals which is the proper choice where does selfishness meet love henna however comes up with the third option where they track down the mother and properly understand the situation instead splitting both down the middle they don't have the sting of selfishness from either end keeping the child to fulfill their own wishes nor discarding it to someone else to carelessly avoid responsibility but going on the quest they might be able to provide a better option than the uncertainty that lies in a snap decision of course on this wild adventure that ensues the twists and turns and within these three characters we see this idea of the balance of car of sorts deepen even more now before we spend in entire video speaking about one single term and let's do something I need to work on overall and Define that term for first so care excuse the Trope but two definitions for its noun form exist and they are the provision of what is necessary for the health welfare maintenance and protection of something or someone and serious attention or consideration applied to doing something correctly or to avoid damage or risk we're talking about with respect to others mostly here here today so the first definition is the more pertinent to us but I think the expression of serious attention or consideration from the latter definition is pretty important as well I really like how that's phrased but we could kind of generally summarize it as giving of oneself for something or someone else since the provision of those Necessities or necessary things would come from one's own necessary things this fits even if it's simply say spending time with someone else because time is something limited that you need and then give up for that person or that thing it's an interesting question how much is too much because we understand that the world only functions through mutual care we can only have transit systems and communal spaces and consistent shops in so far as we care for others enough to give of ourselves for those things and it's most basic just in something like taxes but we're also aware that the World falls apart if no one cares for themselves the whole point of having societal anything is defeated if no one is at least somewhat selfish enough to take those advantages what we'll see in Tokyo Godfathers between these three main characters Hannah gin and miuki are different ranges of care and selfishness and the effect they have hopefully providing an idea of what we should and shouldn't do in part in our own lives it'll be a very classic Prof character analysis video like a couple years ago but I hope that's something everyone new will still enjoy and at the very least at the time of recording Tokyo Godfathers is free on this very site so you can watch it before this at no cost but time and of course I heavily recommend that first henna is probably the most classic case of course with her own twists but as such the best to start on she's the only one of the three to start her life in this awful situation abandoned as a child before she could even understand what her parents' faces looked like this opened her life on a feeling of rejection of course which is important to keep in mind and only furthered by having a non-conventional identity this means that as she grew up and discovered her own identity one which is harshly rejected by many still to this day and even more so in the early 2000 when this movie was made it would become even harder for her to receive the kind of support she would need to properly get on her feet and start a usual life with both of these starting from behind factors it's almost impossible for her to have ever succeeded it we typically call success in life it's a matter of equity with so many disadvantages she needed some kind of support there's no way she could just work harder and get out of her disadvantage there is one place which offered support though Angel Tower a bar run by a drag queen we only he referred to as mother which was of course welcoming to those with non-traditional lives here she seems to have found a real home as she returns during the film and we see well calling it a welcome with open arms would actually be a conservative description it's more like a welcome with a full body grip on the journey to find kiyoko's mother she and miuki had lost track of gin who seems to be in charge of their living situation and so they had no option but to come here to her past home as they couldn't stay out in the cold with a newborn as they might have if it were just them that means that coming here was her last resort for the sake of somebody else luckily inside they find ginan unluckily in very terrible shape but we'll get to that later but resting for a moment inside we get a real confirmation of just how much of a home this was to Hanna and she easily settles in as her and mother reminisce but what she thinks back to to is the reason she left performing a show she tossed a glass of wine carelessly which landed on a customer which made him angry which made him insult her which made her assault him this is what leads Hanah to say that she knows she has no right to come back here when she arrived seeing it as a terrible thing she did to a place which needs to maintain a reputation to exist and support people like her she left permanently due to this living with a man she loved named Ken instead but upon his untimely death she refused to return still mother doesn't care about the incident at all really shrugging it off and saying that a little bit of money turned it into no problem whatsoever completely forgotten it's just one of those moments that you look back on in the past to with the eyes of the future to laugh about a little bit she cared much more for Hannah than she did for what one canderous customer might say to a few other people which itself might be quite minimal considering that he was very drunk so might not even remember it and who knows how much I want to talk about going to a bar that does drag shows in a world where Conservative Business reputation is well pretty much everything it wasn't a pretty scene for sure but it really wasn't that big of a deal so why would Hannah leave the only place which accepted her over something that's really minimal well she cares for others to a detriment we can start to see how this mindset develops by considering her past in relation to this we spoke about her being in dire need of support due to her limiting factors that there really was no way for her to just T it out and build a life and this is what she received at Angel Tower a place which was willing to offer that which she of course repaid in some way by performing and likely just helping out around in general but being thrown away way as a child is of course going to leave some marks on a person and for her as well as with these specific Pains of identity this developed a need to appear perfect to be accepted and welcomed to not be discarded again when you're tossed away so easily before you could even be aware of doing something wrong it sets this precedent that you can always be thrown away for any small thing that you might not even know what it is and so you just have to be perfect you have to provide no reason to be thrown away it's also something we can Intuit or more like extrapolate from the transgender experience when you're attempting to get people to understand that your gender is different from their preconception you need to have a lot of convincing power because people really don't want to rethink their preconceptions you have to try and sit properly speak properly eat properly do everything that they associate with what you are so they finally start to accept it it's a pressure to be perfect to the standards of what you're trying to to be at least around not so accepting people because you don't have the default preconceptions to rely on you aren't able to do one or two things out of the box as someone whose gender matches their sex because those are overlooked when it matches but overlooked in the sense of being overly looked at when it doesn't match we can see some sort of this early on that she tries to coach Muki how to be more proper about how she eats trying to guide her to be more gentle and feminine but what this all means for the present moment at least the moment we're talking about being present even though it's a thing in the past the incident at Angel Tower what this all means about that is that she could no longer appear perfect post that incident she probably believed abandon would come soon because of it and so feeling very worthless how could they not discard her now that they've seen what she's really like that she could be a hindrance but it goes deeper than this as well as it also technically places a cost on her being there or having been there they had to pay off the customer a direct monetary loss and if she stays now this place that cares for people like her has the reputation of protecting people who attack customers we said it was a minimal risk but it's still a risk that she's obviously considering her staying might only hurt the people who were kind to her right when someone feels that their life has proven its worthlessness over and over again any small cost can appear to be worth more than their own life what does it matter if leaving ruins her life because it's just not worth as much as the others right she doesn't feel she has a right to return because she was an inconvenience a cost a burden always needing support it's hard to not feel like your presence can only drag down the people you care about and so at least in that mentality to really care for them the best thing you can do is leave them you you might think and if possible make them look better when you do it we see this happen later in the film as gin is reunited with his daughter but isn't quite honest with her about the current state of his life saying that he's just in recycling not his actual situation both being angered by his deception and also knowing that honesty is the only way he'll repair this relationship Hannah has an outburst once again yelling about how awful he is and stating much more plainly that he's is currently living on the streets turning to outright insults against someone she's admitted to loving she storms off with miuki they begin to presumably be somewhat comforted by his daughter yes what Hannah said was true but in such a harsh way that it actually makes gin look somewhat sympathetic in comparison after all he was helping to support someone who now looks so awful as Hannah and miuki leave she explains this through a story about two Devils the short of it is the red one wants to be friends with the humans but the humans don't like devils and so the blue one fake attacks them so the red one can save them and be their hero but that's at the cost of their original friend the Blue Devil being an outcast they can never see again the Blue Devil sacrifices their own happiness for the Reds of course this is exactly what Hannah is doing it's not very subtle or hard to understand we all make others look better or ourselves worse depending on the situations but the more interesting note is of course understanding why she could see this as an action worth doing would you live as an outcast forever just to make one person a bit more happy now what about if you saw your own life as worthless and already guaranteed to become an outcast then wouldn't this actually be the worthwhile thing at least getting some positiveness out of your outcasts instead of just letting it befall you with nothing good coming of it it's easy for her to believe her life could never be improved but it can be used to ensure that the lives of the people she cares about are if throwing away any care for herself brings more care to someone else it's The Logical decision it's an option probably all too common to people who have to find their own identities lost in the confusion of that undefined and feeling worthless what reason is there to not throw yourself away for another and it comes to its most literal point at the climax where she leaps from a building to catch and save Kiyoko literally throwing herself to towards death for another luckily well that's really all you can say to describe the physicality of this moment is luckily it works out but we can't always expect luck to care for us more than we do what we see in Hannah is caring for others to a detriment giving so much of oneself due to a worthlessness felt from day one and never escaping because you provided so much for others you're never able to provide for yourself in this cycle we see that without some degree of selfishness we lose ourselves to kindness but just the same and I know this is no shocker carrying too much for oneself and not for others can be just as dangerous but the twist is that it isn't just a danger to others or that it becomes a danger to us because we lose others from doing it but that we can actively make decisions we know harm us from thinking too much about ourselves we'll move on to Gin the father of this ragtag family the movie centers around before this he lived a perfectly normal life as far as we could tell he and his wife owned a bicycle shop which they operated together and got by enough to raise a child on it seems entirely unremarkable in the best ways but in the background trouble was brewing as gin was losing himself to his addictions alcohol and gambling and then lying to his family about the debts from both of these this continued to grow worse and worse with each gamble feeling like the one that could save his life only to damn him just that little bit more as these became untenable he left his family to live where he couldn't be found never making them aware of his fate they'd go on search for years even checking unidentified corpses hoping to find any sign of their husband and father he feels worthless from the entire ordeal of course believing himself to be nothing more than trash to be thrown away we see this the most after miuki and Kiyoko are kidnapped leading to Hannah trying to chase them down and him instead just saying and refusing to go after them he sees the situation as much too tough for them to solve and sits down to drink instead Hanah calls him the trash runs off to save them and his mindset in drunken State lead to this Exchange in the back of those words [Music] it's a tragic tale a man internally tortured by how much he destroyed his family and now once again how little he's trying to save his found family but there is a selfish Truth at the heart of it Rah didn't have much choice about where her life ended up with a love who died by chance in a childhood F of Abandonment gin was living an average life with a happy family but couldn't control himself enough to save it in an odd way the decision to live as he does now is an act of protection he leaves behind the shameful mess that he made in the care of his family's hands and fle to where the story can be whatever he wishes it to be the tale he tells Hannah is much more sympathetic saying that he was a professional cyclist who took a DI for money to pay for his daughter's necessary surgery but he was caught lost everything his daughter died without the medical care she needed and his wife followed soon after he says it as a man broken by life that after being beaten down by so long and so unfairly he just couldn't bring himself to work any longer the story he tells has a large impact on how he's viewed it's very close to the start of the film and it contextualizes his actions in a much different light than what they truly are when he's reluctant to care for Kiyoko but then does so well it seems to be because he's a man harmed by the world wanting to protect himself from caring once again because the world was what hurt him before through sheer happen stance and bad luck but of course we learned the truth especially when we see him refuse to chase after the kidnapped Kyoko and Yuki that at the end of the day when things get tough he simply prioritizes himself over the rest now some unknown very minor back ground character say that they won't even want to be near Miyuki because gin will think they were messing with her and hurt them if they do showing that of course he cares to some degree but when push really comes to shove he's always his own top priority he'll fight for her but not if it gets to the degree we see in the kidnapping and so escaping to a much worse life is a sort of protection it's evading a shame he found more painful than this lack of stability and leaving his debts to someone else his mistakes are paid off by the wife and child that he left behind but it's also protection in the sense of growth not growing a bank account to combat the debt but growing and changing as a person to be better to properly handle the situation at home he would have to totally clean up his act saving instead of gambling no more getting drunk both to make good decisions and to save up everything he can it wouldn't be comfortable and the struggle with addiction is a very tough battle that shouldn't be looked down upon it's a long and hard path which is defined by dedication and self-control for the rest of one's life where failure is always looming and the thing that causes you failure is normalized that's not an easy state for anyone to be in for the rest of their life but at the end of the day it is their actions they have to handle through dedication and this is what he seeks to escape I'm by no means saying that the life he lives now is comfortable or easy but it does avoid the changes he needed to make he doesn't need to dedicate himself to making proper decisions to maintain a family he can get drunk whenever and wherever he wishes with no restraint more than how much money he has to buy alcohol or how much he can find he doesn't have to learn to control his gambling because now he simply doesn't have the opportunity or resources to even think about gambling rather than becoming a better person he takes on a harsher life where he doesn't have the same reasons to be a better person he can be however awful he wants to know of effect lying just to make it all sound more sympathetic in an odd way choosing this very harsh life was the more comfortable option for him it presented a daily struggle that should never be understated but it solved a personal and internal struggle avoiding his mistakes and his shame what he's doing is accepting a worthlessness to his life as an excuse when he said they shouldn't chase down miuki and Kiyoko because well they're not action heroes it's saying that I'm not good enough to even bother trying as an excuse against anything and everything if he believes himself to be trash worth discarding and nothing more then what reason is there to ever better his life that's what he is that's what he is there's no reason to change things and again we can only say this because this was a choice he made not a situation he was forced into even if addiction is a very present Force what really shows that this is that when he reconnects with his daughter by chance and they speak about the man who owed who he owed money to being shot and surviving gin is actually relieved that the man didn't die saying that I ran up the debts not him acknowledging that he made mistakes this means that he isn't just saying he made no mistakes but that he's using those mistakes to reason he can never be better it's actually defining himself by those Stakes by those worst moments and nothing else he has been saving money the whole time to one day hopefully give to his family though a sum of some 30,000 yen about $275 at that time a drop in the bucket but still showing he understands to some degree he has a responsibility to be better and is capable of doing so that's what makes it so tough is is it's there it's deep in him but it can't come out can't be expressed in full and this money really show was that dedication as when a gang of delinquents beat him viciously in what they call New Year's cleanup and take this money from him he chases them down to his own detriment getting even more abused to retrieve this sum he held on to and that's how he ends up at Angel Tower it's not impossible for him to dedicate himself to something clearly we see but the thing is he could have done more he could have done more just by staying by doing nothing what he did instead was accept his mistakes to a fault so harshly taking them on that he never believed there was a chance to be better and that the greatest option was simply to remove himself to exist as the horrible person he thinks himself to be and nothing more in short he never makes himself more than his mistakes and yes in a way that is still caring for himself above others we can still care for things we don't find valuable part of caring for others is moving past our mistakes to do better by them they weren't burn in a vacuum it wasn't a career mistake some Bachelor made it was a family man who ruined the stability of the whole unit in that situation there was a responsibility to move forward to deal with the situation and then worry about what one is or isn't in terms of value he chose to have a family and he chose to gamble in a way all of what follows is a mostly selfish path caring for himself above others and to his own great detriment and lastly we have miuki she came from a situation more akin to Gins than Hannah's the daughter of a police investigated father and a presumably stay-at-home mother living the ordinary life she was mostly left to her own devices often ignored by her father and her mother seems to have been too wrapped up in religious Traditions to have much direct input either we don't see this directly ourselves but in in her responses to certain small events in the movie as she browses through a parenting book full of pictures of Happy Fathers holding their children she simply says because she never experienced something like that and believes its occurrence is just a lie a fancy presentation for this book because fathers don't actually care like that and when Hannah and gin are caring for Kiyoko she pretends to be asleep but keeps an eye out here and there to see what exactly they're doing it's a curiosity rooted in novelty she doesn't know what a father taking care of a child feels like and so she wants to see she takes time reading that parenting book for the same reason this is the feeling that was building up when she was still at home a very soft neglect with the only source of real Comfort she found in her cat angel named for the wing-like spots on its back but when it disappears she thought her father had gotten rid of it maybe even killed it and lost herself for just long enough to stab him in response she throws him her homemade scarf that he never wore saying he should use that to mop up the blood and that's the last we see of her family interactions she does brag that unlike the other two she can go home whenever she wants but she never will because of that fear of her father a man who never took time away from work to care for her before why would he welcome her back now if anything he'd have her arrested and she says so many times herself this lack of tenderness in her life leads to an interesting state where since she was never cared for she can't really recognize what being cared for actually looks like she might not even think it really exists she only thinks that she'll be greeted with anger and hostility because to her everything looks like anger and hostility or at the best being ignored we see this as the trio Bard a train trying to track down kyoko's mother and it stops opposite another one as the tracks are covered with snow which just so happens to place her and her father eye to eye across the tracks he begins to shout trying to get her attention and and picks up his phone still trying to shout and get her attention and she hides out of view uh just beside the window overwhelmed in feeling that she's about to be tracked down and arrested probably thinking he's calling the police right then she climbs out of the window with Hannah and gin following init having wasted the train Fair it seems only logical he's a cop who didn't really care about her so he should be only mad about what happened right he was definitely calling the police the only outcome could be arrest but when we look closer there's an important detail he is wearing the scarf that she threw at him that day when their eyes met on the train that snap decision of judging the situation only on what we knew before it looks a lot like anger but with a full assessment we see he was trying to find her through kindness having now understood his mistakes and wanting to make right by his daughter even despite her son assult he's remembering her every day with that scarf forgiving a large mistake so readily is there much more that's indicative of care the issue is that because he never did before she can't recognize it as such now one large action of kindness doesn't necessarily stand or doesn't necessarily equate to many smaller ones we see more definitive proof that he cares later on though as of course screaming and pounding will look a lot like anger when they find the former now burnt down home of kiyoko's parents there are some newspapers sitting around and just happening to glance at one the Yuki sees this the father didn't get rid of the cat or kill it to just ran away for a moment and even if he did get rid of it he welcomed it back now when it found its way home he'll of course put up with a pet for her in the hopes of trying anything to find her he took out a newspaper ad with this message and in a movie all about these kinds of coincidences it works with this in mind she Tak takes the chance to make a pay phone call and reaches him at home but a bit too scared to say anything she simply hesitates and her father's first reaction is to ask if it's her and if she's okay but clearly in a state of fear she's unable to respond and hangs up crying in the booth as she does of course she'd want to go home she even starts to see that it might be possible enough to make a call but that fear of what will happen when she does is holding her back we see two times where her father is now trying to care for her one what could have looked like anger but wasn't and one which seems pretty plainly like a loving worry but the problem is when someone has never seen the complexities of care before they're not going to understand them when they matter they're not going to have an eye for the fine details that show what might look like anger could actually just be Panic driven by love based on the situation they might not be able to understand that someone could actually change to want to now show them a kindness they didn't know before they might not even think that real love exists but the two adult stories were about caring for oneself or others too much Muki is about being cared for or more specifically the complexities that arise later when someone isn't cared for even if they're provided for and just how hard it can be to write the ship if it's never properly steered for so many years and this also makes it hard to accept love when it's finally offered to them it's no secret that Hannah gin and Muki are essentially a family of their own playing out their respective roles in ways they know but miuki is the one who recognizes that fact the most minimally at least externally so the former two try their best to provide for her with henna wanting to give her a set of world literature books that she found for Christmas to ensure that Muki is still being educated somewhat still being raised properly and when she scoffs it off gin tells her that she should respect and accept the gift from someone who worked to find it for her while behind the scenes wanting to protect her himself carrying in his own ways but she gets argumentative instead believing that she doesn't need to accept their help despite only surviving in this situation exactly because of their help she's only a sheltered 14-year-old she desperately needs assistance right now and rightfully so at that age unprepared for life it takes that but she can't understand it or respond well to it she believes she doesn't need it because she doesn't know that it exists when Hannah tries to impart anything she finds important onto miuki she turns to ints and Rebellion instead because care is just an act right she doesn't want that fakeness in her life this continues to change as the movie progresses as her flashback about stabbing her father transforms into a family setting where those two are her parents instead and Kyoko takes the place of Angel she doesn't understand this immediately saying why are you he to them both but of course for us the point is quite clear she's starting to see what a family is really built on that even in the dire circumstances they're experiencing right now something intangible pulls them together she's beginning to understand this care she shown simply by being forcefully exposed to it now again and again from these two Hannah ran all over a dangerous section of the city screaming for her exerting herself to make sure the person she loves is okay she lets down all of her own insecurities and guards overcoming her own issues for a moment for someone else after Hannah finds her and expresses that she's glad Muki is okay the younger doesn't grow argumentative anymore but instead looks away flustered she doesn't know how to express what this feeling means but she also doesn't want to push back against it anymore it's basically that she can't deny it after the day they've had it exists and it's meaningful she's slowly undoing all those years prior which conditioned her otherwise and this slow evolution is what we see in the climax now the trio succeeds in returning Kiyoko to her mother except it's not really the mother gin on his own part of the adventure after Hannah storms off with myuki post daau reunion finds the father instead of the mother a gambling addict who drove up their debts leading her to work a terrible job to make up for it who tells him that she stole the baby from the Ward it isn't actually theirs he gets this information to Hannah and miuki only after they return Kiyoko so they chase down the mother whose deteriorated mental state leads her to take them on an even crazier Chase risking everyone's lives in the process even to eventually crashing into a large building Muki is the one who's able to chase her up to the roof the fist so she ends up as the one trying to talk saiko off the ledge and the attack she chooses is well not very tactful at all rather than forgiveness or understanding she says it's a very odd thing it's of course rooted in the idea that life is valuable because she shouldn't take another that's just starting with her if she makes that decision but it's said in a very harsh and real way it's something said by someone who's only now feeling care and harsh circumstances that they would find realistic and true to say there's a lot of softness throughout it of course saying that life is only born once and caring deeply for kiyoko's safety but not yet caring for Sajo's safety in the same way not yet caring for all humans in the same way but it's a mixture that shows more of this Evolution like Hannah did for her now she's the one exerting herself to save a child she wants to see be okay she knows it enough to know what's really important about it even if she can't put it to the best words or express it to everyone the slow evolution of her feelings is key because it stresses that danger one last time that we have to not just care for people or provide for them but make it clear and obvious and warm we have to make sure they know they're cared for so they can care for [Music] others what we see across all three is that they felt there was some mistake which was Grand enough they had to or even wanted to leave behind their families whether they be found formed or born into they each felt that something outweighed their value to those other people and overall even to the world but each one is welcomed back with open arms without even a hint of scorn across all cases from gambling debt to stabbings ginar ends as his daughter welcomes him back without even an ounce of ill will offering him her address and number to stay in touch she says she always wanted to find him again despite being left behind with all that debt the harshest mistakes paled in comparison for the human desire to care for the people we feel are important he was running away all this time on the basis that he was too worthless and his mistakes too great to ever try for something more but in this one instant with nothing more than a gentle tone his daughter was able to prove both of those things false it will take work to mend his life but there is a reward for doing it he has the potential to do so and people want him to do so nothing can ever make someone garbage worth discarding like he thought he was with this recognition there's nowhere left for him to hide but solved his story is what he failed to show in tough times shown to him in tough times not grand gestures or fixing everything in an instant but just staying just simple care we saw the same thing with Hannah who returns in desperation to find that even across years of the unknown there was always a place willing to welcome her no matter what she looked like or who she was with she felt that after her slip up it was only natural to be discarded but they can prove to her that there is no such thing not losing her cool not disappearing there is nothing that suddenly makes her not worth caring about much like gin story her happy trending yet open-ended Arc is solved with that simple expression that the lives we find important are worth so much more than the mistakes they may have made and miyuki's ending only occurs in the final moments as the actual parents of Kyoko want to meet the people who saved their daughter not even hesitating when they're told that the people who did it didn't have a home and who's handling the case of course miyuki's father as they find each other again this time with no escape and with miuki learning more about what's possible the story ends we can only imagine what comes next but I think it's quite clear it's something positive their found family might be in turmoil now but only because they learned that they were never truly discarded there was never a time where they truly had nowhere to go they all found each other and that was good but they were never each other's Last Resorts someone somewhere no matter what was always caring for them this is a vein running through every action of the film we see unhoused parents caring for a child that isn't even theirs off the care of other parents who never got to give care when they rob grab site offerings there's a rich man who hates his scumbag soon to be son-in-law saved from an assassin by him nonetheless and the man who was that assassin doing so to provide for his family at home who then care for the hostages he took in order to make it back to them alive the entire series of events is an odd n bash of family from biological to found Rich to poor across places and times identities and nationalities and the care that these people Express The Common Thread breaks past barriers like the excitement of two people who don't speak the same language being able to communicate one thing still about the people they love no matter what almost every single person ever born can understand this expression in very different ways but with the same basis it's something stronger than borders and barriers and so of course stronger than mistakes it's stronger than the biology which formed the first ones even we as human beings have both the stressful responsibility and the grand freedom to choose and care for our own loved ones we have the ability to decide that there are people to us who can always be valuable no matter what mistakes they introduce to their and our lives and as long as we have that ability it means that within reason there is no one Beyond love that there is no life worth throwing into the trash if these three can come together if a father-in-law who hates his son can be saved by him if a mother who doesn't even speak the language of a woman her husband kidnapped who's taken care of a child someone else kidnapped and threw in the trash can still care about each other then there's always someone who can care for who we are we can't guarantee when or where it will come but in all spaces and across all times it is possible and it exists and that is something worth continuing for and that's obviously where I'd like for this video to end um but it's one of those topics that I really even even though it's just part of a story um I really don't feel comfortable making money on because I don't know it's a real serious thing affecting people not just when this was made even but now and continuously um and it feels weird for me to profit from that even if it's from someone else's story even if these aren't characters who are real that they're they're mimicking real people's lives that are happening right now um and so what I've done is I've taken what I think this video not what I think this video will make what this video would make uh if it gets somewhere around 15 or 30,000 views and uh donated that to a um local organization in my area called The Jubilee kitchen uh which is a soup kitchen that also offers some um different things as well as not just um serving meals there but providing uh food for households um facilities for cleanliness uh clothing different things like that um it says financial assistance and a few things as well I'm not extremely versed on it um but I I've I've checked it all over it seems reputable good enough the reviews and ratings seem okay so I felt comfortable giving the money there um of what I think this video will make and the reason why I do that is because if a video isn't monetized YouTube isn't making anything from it they're not going to push the video um and so for people to be able to see this uh which helps me do well uh but also then means that what is made from it is able to go somewhere from that greater reach um I I always make the decision to keep these videos monetized but to uh push that money somewhere else not to me but but somewhere where it's actually going to um do good and and be a lot more respectful to the subject matter um I think that's everything I really had to say on it um if you have the ability to um especially at this time of the year I definitely encourage you to um do whatever you can I um whether that's monetarily or or volunteering or anything and that's somewhat hypocritical for me to say because I myself am not volunteering uh even if my time's limited it's uh it's a shortcoming of mine that I'm not out there having more of a direct impact um and I'll acknowledge that too um but it's an important time especially in places where I am where where it's colder and conditions are getting a lot more harsh and things um that that a lot can can really help all the time but especially right now um but yeah so I'm sorry the video couldn't end on on the you know kind of more dramatic um you know cinematic note uh for covering such a good movie and a movie that for using such harsh language is still so much more respectful and real to um specific uh subject matter and and real issues affecting people than than many more others um another one of the great works by Satoshi Khan um but that's that's an unnecessary ramble at the end um uh so sorry to take up more of your time with this but it's something that again this this isn't an issue I've experienced myself it's not something that I know firsthand and so I I if I make money off of that it's that's a dark path to start going down um so I just wanted to to to make this very clear at the end um but anyway yeah that's that's my ramble of it at the end out of the way sorry there's no visuals for this but my whole setup is torn down right now um but yeah anyway um thank you for watching especially if you listen to this this ramble at the end um yeah and uh I hope have a good uh good uh holiday seasoning thingy here anyway um thank you have a good month

Channel: ProfessorViral

Views: 130,076

Keywords: anime, manga, christmas movie, christmas film, satoshi kon, tokyo godfathers, hana, gin, miyuki, kiyoko, video essay, professorviral, prof

Id: gjO4b2iQIa4

Length: 45min 6sec (2706 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 21 2023