Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction to Plato's Allegory of the Cave 00:44 - Definition & History 01:14 - The Allegory of the Cave Summary 02:56 - Meanings & Interpretations 06:45 - Takeaways for Writers

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2 жыл бұрын

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Жыл бұрын

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5 ай бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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Жыл бұрын

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Жыл бұрын

@@V_4_Versace We don't pay tho. And it's good incentive to make good videos.

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Жыл бұрын

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I’ve read Plato’s work countless times, since I’m a philosophy professor, and still, to this day it touches me deeply every time

@eternalpublic5783

Жыл бұрын

Plato is one of my all time favorites. Love the bangs and chills I feel when I read his work.

@jenynz5334

Жыл бұрын

I went to enough college to have several degrees (I was undecided for years...); but the best class I took, by far, was Intro to Philosophy 😊.

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Жыл бұрын

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@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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i studied the allegory of the cave at school, and my teacher show me The Matrix for the first time. thanks Helena

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Good teacher 👍

One of the best yet guys. Plato and his teacher "the Greek dude So'crates" are an eternal wellspring of knowledge, inspiration and guidance, especially when it comes to storytelling. Thanks always for all these free pieces of essential information, and keep keeping on.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Will keep it going 👌

Aaah the allegory of the cave. Probably the first allegory i learned and since then, i can identify all of his elements in several works. To be honest, it has been used countless of time but it still have is impact. The idea of the search of the true will always be interesting and never looses importance. This is just a great storytelling.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

A compelling idea for anyone!

@Ski958

Жыл бұрын

Can you explain it to me in a simple way

@alejandrovargasaguilar6180

Жыл бұрын

@@Ski958 do you want me to explain the myth?

Combining my two favourite topics philosophy and cinema. Thanks for the vid!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

They tend to work well together :)

This channel is honestly one of the best on KZread for Filmmakers and screenwriters! Thank you Studiobinder for all this great info, your work is highly appreciated.

I wrote a story like this once with the exception of he decided to tell no one because the truth was too much for even him and he did not what everyone else to bear the weight of what he knows.

We wanted allegory and Studiobinder delivered.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Always ;)

Was just researching this last night... StudioBinder is reading my mind

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Hope we helped haha

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StudioBinder’s video editors are amazing.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

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If most social commentaries are subtle on their allegories, that'd be fantastic and timeless.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Subtle can be very effective 💯

I am a writer and I felt how less I know about storytelling. Thanks for sharing this video. Keep up the good work.

Thank you StudioBinder. You Explain Brilliantly what makes Plato's Allegory of the Cave one of the Best Source of Inspiration for Filmmaker Creativity in Storytelling and Symbolism.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

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@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

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I think the key to allegory working is subtlety. If it’s on the nose *cough*Crash 2004*cough* than you end up alienating the audience. If it’s subtle like the original Robocop, The Matrix (1999), The Truman Show, or to an extent Turning Red (2022), than your work will become timeless. Great video as always Studiobinder.

@majormononoke8958

2 жыл бұрын

How is the matrix subtle? Morpheus literally says it into your face... And the whole movie is literally a copy of the the cave allegory, though there more elements in the movie for sure.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

All about the execution!

Okay can we talk about the fantastic animation in this video,

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

I always learn something interesting from this channel. Keep up the great content.

There's a lesson for everyone in Plato's allegory of the cave. Brilliant video, I love this channel.

Wow! Brilliant. We all needed this video. Such a great break down.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Hope it helps!

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@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

I just think that Plato's Allegory of the Cave almost like when we watching film in cinema, LOL

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting point!

Really happy to see Turning Red being represented in a video like this. That film is amazing.

@Aurongel

2 жыл бұрын

Same, I wasn't expecting to find that film so fresh and revelatory when I first saw it but it 100% deserves the praise it gets.

@kalakritistudios

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't expect the parents to be referenced. I thought it was just her knowing about the red panda, oh so lame BUT NOOOO, I was shook.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

A good example!

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I love the small detail of adding reverb to the narrators voice in that Stranger than Fiction joke! Smart and so funny!

Plato's allegory is the game of reality that the two worlds possess the audience in the starting will be the prisoners when you take them to realistic world you created but in the end the character world which means film's world and prisoner's world means audience world collides with each other is the best effect we get from allegory

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

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Thank you for this video it is honest and utterly brilliant. Super enlightening!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

Indie game FEZ makes this allegory beautifully, when the main caracter in a 2D world suddenly can see and move in 3 dimensions

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting concept!

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@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

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@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Will keep it up!

For one of my stories I used thus without actually knowing it consciously

Ingeniously made!!! Thank you!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

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@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Honestly, why am I even paying film school if there is Studio Binder's youtube channel? Damn, I learned more from here than in an entire academic year...

This was awesome guys. Particularly, it's a type of writing I'm very interested in. Thank you for making a video of it. I'll read the book.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Hope it helps :)

@AbdallahBotan

2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

Fan of our fans haha

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@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds good!

Never pondered The Truman Show was based on the theme Allegory of Cave or Baudillard's Simulacrum concept. Thanks for bringing it into the public domain❤

@abdulbasit-qm8di

2 жыл бұрын

No, I am not. Are you (fookin) racist? Looking for a subject to ridicule.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to!

I have been thinking about how this could be applied to horror and I keep coming back to Cosmic horror and Lovecraftian fiction. But 'Cabin in the Woods', would that be a good example of this too maybe?

@kofiopam5828

2 жыл бұрын

I think so!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

You can make a case for Cabin in the Woods!

@Ignirium

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, that's why the movie is so awesome. It's like a meta-horror movie

Came here after watching the new Netflix show 1899 and goddamn. Never knew I had been watching storytelling with such philosophical history to it all this time.

I love you studiobinder! This is amazing 💕.. Would you say this is was Arrenofsky practices ?!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure it's influenced his work, whether he consciously used the allegory or not

The Giver is another great film that has a lot of aspects from Plato's Allegory

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, better book in my opinion

@Laocoon283

Жыл бұрын

The dark city is another.

I'll listen to this guy narrate all day

Plato's allegory of the cave will be evergreen as it poses the ultimate question; what is the light?

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

True!

Amazing work gentlemen

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy!

Very well done. Thanks.

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@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

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Brilliant vid. Thank you.

Perfect timing (If you know what Imean). Well done StudioBinder, well done.

I am so glad this channel exists... Film school blows and is mostly a waste of money if you have a full time job to stay alive.

This is the first time I have seen this channel, and it feels weirdly apropos that it concerns the feeling of enlightenment

You guys are doing great job for free truly appreciating.( From india)

Before Elvis comes out, can you do a video on a director analysis on Baz Luhrmann

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion!

A f*cking stellar video!!! Great way to inspire us and give us the beats about how to make a story about the cave and what it is and means to us.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Happy writing!

This is fantastic.

Make a video tribute to the history of cinema, the day of the seventh art, from its beginnings to today

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Not a bad idea!

Brilliant! Thank you!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Hope it helps :)

I found this after watching 1899 - fun description 👍🏼

Incredible & Thanks :)

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

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Thank you for this!!!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy!

The one thing kinda missing in the Allegory is that the MC in Plato's Allegory doesn't choose to leave the cave and is then forced to see the truth. The MC should ideally make the decision to seek the truth as that would make for a more active character rather than a passive one. However, the MC in the Allegory somewhat fixes this by having him choose to go back in the cave in a failed attempt to share the truth with others which causes conflict. In the Matrix, Neo has to choose whether to see the truth or not with the red and blue pill. It would have been neat to see this choice in the Allegory.

I love good cinema and especially when it's explained!!!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

That's our goal!

Gnosticism 101. Great music on this episode, guys! Love it!!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Interesting. I really need to read more again.

those explanations are too good to be free! why are you sharing with us? Are we in Plato's allegory of the cave? Are we in reality at all?

good job!

Great video, thank you. Where can we find a list of the different movies shown in this vid?😊

Wow, that is superb 🥰🥰

I highly recommend Ur team to Watch indian movie "SHIP OF THESUS" which uses Platos allegory in very Unique way..

@ROBOHOLIC1

2 жыл бұрын

Sus

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion!

Out of the Cave circa 2008!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

Thank you ❤️🙏

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Very interesting 🤔 I took a philosophy class back in the 80's and the only thing I remember is The Cave 😃

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I made a 3 min sci fi film based on this story. "In the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort." Socrates, Plato's Republic, Book VII, 514a-520a

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Good job!

@virtualcircle285

2 жыл бұрын

@@StudioBinder Great video. The summary and comparison between the story and the three act structure is bang on.

Awesome and well educated video!!! You guys rocks!!! The same can’t be say about the Matrix franchise, only the first one!!!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

First was the best for sure

Amazing...

bravo !!!!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

best chanel

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

We try :)

Now, please do Plato’s Allegory of the Ring.

Similar thing is explained in Legion also.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

💯

I started watching this video asking how films are made. I finished it with more questions.

Plato’s Allegory of the cave!!

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

It's here!

Ναι, εντελώς συμφωνώ ολόψυχα yo senti esto de la verdad. “Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.” ― Plato

How similar this is to the story of the Buddha, or rather, the Buddhist path to Enlightenment, quite splendid and inspiring.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

There are some parallels!

Thank you

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Hope it helps!

@hirakjyotimedhii

2 жыл бұрын

@@StudioBinder really it helps a lot.

Mind blown... Boom

Carl Sagan's allegory of "flatland" is quite similar to this. The difference is that the three dimensional beings cannot be perceived by the inhabitants of flatland so the existence of the 3rd dimension must be inferred through science. I think it is a more interesting allegory actually.

There is a film called ship of Theseus. A great watch. A movie masterpiece. I would love to hear your views on that.

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds good!

I'm surprised that you didn't use the Dagobah Cave Sequence from "The Empire Strikes Back" as an example.

Hey guys can u pls make a video on what r all the movies we shud watch be watching studiobinder for spoiler free entertainment Thanq

@StudioBinder

2 жыл бұрын

We add spoiler alerts for videos that cover the resolution of the films!

@rahul033

2 жыл бұрын

@@StudioBinder thanq so much ...