2023's Most Beautiful Movie About Love

AdamandEve.com. Use code: LSOO for 50% Off 1 Item + Free Shipping in the US & Canada. Some exclusions apply Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO About this video essay: An analysis of Celine Song's Past Lives, and how it subverts the audience's expectations by turning the tropes of the romantic genre into a thoughtful rumination on the weight of time, the vague grief of lost potentiality, and the search for meaning. Content: 00:00 Introduction 01:07 A Brief Overview 01:59 A Different Kind of Love Story 04:36 The Vague Grief of Lost Potentiality 06:13 Fixed in Time, Fluid in the Mind 08:40 A Search for Meaning 10:40 Peaceful Resignation 12:54 An Adult Understanding 14:10 The Real Love Story? Music: By the Coast - Part of Me Christopher Dennis Coleman - Vesper Shawn Williams - Illuminate I Live Here - September Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: https://fm.pxf.io/c/3532571/1347628/16252 Listen to my podcast, Cinema of Meaning: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-of-meaning/id1611352831 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4n6zZZQjiKsLNfyldNAi8b YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cinemaofmeaning Nebula: https://nebula.app/cinemaofmeaning Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking