The Sad Beauty of Experiencing Someone Else’s Humanity

Start your 30 DAY FREE TRIAL now at https://mubi.com/likestoriesofold 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 the philosophy of Levinas, the depiction of humanity through cinema, and the hidden meaning that can be found within it. Chapters: 0:00 Levinas and the Face of the Other 1:23 Performing Humanity 4:13 The Weight of Guilt 6:40 The Nature of Our Conscience 8:32 Denying the Humanity of Others 10:20 Everyday Dehumanization 13:35 Facing True Humanity 15:54 A Kingdom of Conscience 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 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 My Camera Gear: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/my-travel-camera-gear Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Say hi: likestoriesofold@gmail.com Music: Slow Meadow – Crown of Amber Canopy Dexter Britain – Dream Array Jude Cosmo – Lunar Echo Jo Blankenburg – Canopus 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 Additional Music: We Dream of Eden – Sleeping Seeds Included Media: A Fantastic Woman; Amadeus; Avatar; Better Call Saul; Blue Valentine; Burning; Carol; Chernobyl; Children of Men; Crime and Punishment; Decision to Leave; Deepwater Horizon; Dunkirk; Fences; Fifty Fifty; Fleabag; Good Will Hunting; Hacksaw Ridge; Her; Ikiru; In Bruges; It's a Wonderful Life; Kingdom of Heaven; Knight of Cups; Lion; Louder Than Bombs; Love Actually; Manchester by the Sea; Me and Earl and the Dying Girl; Midsommar; Minari; Moonlight; Nightcrawler; Only the Brave; Paterson; Persona; Phantom Thread; Pig; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Prisoners; Saving Private Ryan; Schindler's List; Sense8; Shame; Short Term 12; Station Eleven; Tar; The Elephant Man; The Farewell; The Great Beauty; The Great Dictator; The Greatest Showman; The Green Mile; The Grey; The Hobbit; The Killing Fields; The Passion of Joan of Arc; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; The Railway Man; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; The Thin Red Line; The Tree of Life; The Worst Person in the World; Thirteen Lives; To the Wonder; World Trade Center