I published my first video essay today...
It's something I have been considering for a while. I actually recorded a larger essay a while ago - about the movie Freaks and why I think it's so controversial - but it didn't look so great after I finished editing and I ended up never publishing it online. Now I wrote a second one. This time it's about The Last of Us. Specifically about something I notice the series is doing to Ellie (the way in which they changed Ellie from what she was like in the original game) and why I think that is.
I guess the main reason I am doing this is because I want to put my opinions out there, in the world. In a way this is what I am doing with my writing - and the last of us has a lot to do with that as well. But this is fun. More immediate. Connected to the zeitgeist, which is fun for someone who's so out of pace with everyone else all the time.
Anyway, the video is out. The channel is called "abandoned amusement park" - the legacy name of this blog - and who knows... Maybe I'll give the Freaks video another shot one of these days...
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