an awsome analysis of "harry potter".

This video analyzing the story of harry potter friggin blew my mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlIrmHOfeA8&feature=channel_video_title

what do you guys think about it ?

I think he is over analysing it a bit too much.

Anything over 30 seconds dedicated to the abomination that is Harry Potter is pointless.

I think he is over analysing it a bit too much.

IBullseye

I want to watch it since I love Harry Potter, but I don't trust videos people tell me to watch on forums.

how much of it did you guys watch ? the parallels are insane. Even if you don't think it's true I found it an absolutely fascinating theory personally. dkdk999

I watched enough to realise that comparisons can be found from anything if you try hard enough.

I didn't watch it... but J.K. Rowling says exactly what it's about.

Woh... can't belive a watched the whole thing, he says some weird thing...

There is absolutely zero proof for what he says; it's all hypothetical BS.

Trolling successful?

First, any movie/book/game can be interpreted to mean anything if you can back it up. It's all based on opinion. For example, I once wrote a paper that showed that the character Miranda in shakespeares "the tempest" is an allusion to his creative process and a statement on how the audience views his plays. Second, he's reading someone elses thesis.DocDelicious

Woh... can't belive a watched the whole thing, he says some weird thing...

Feryraiser

Complete over-analysis. If there was any truth to his interpretation there would have been more hints or it would have cut back to the "real" world more often or at least at the end.

And the Star Wars interpretation isn't helping his argument...

JRR Tolkien didn't like subtext or allegory. He's awesome.

how much of it did you guys watch ? the parallels are insane. Even if you don't think it's true I found it an absolutely fascinating theory personally. dkdk999

[QUOTE="dkdk999"]how much of it did you guys watch ? the parallels are insane. Even if you don't think it's true I found it an absolutely fascinating theory personally. Serraph105

There is absolutely zero proof for what he says; it's all hypothetical BS.

DarthJohnova

[QUOTE="Serraph105"][QUOTE="dkdk999"]how much of it did you guys watch ? the parallels are insane. Even if you don't think it's true I found it an absolutely fascinating theory personally. dkdk999

The great thing about unconscious psychological motivation is that, while you cannot actually prove your theory, you certainly can't have it disproved.

For example I could say that people who over-analysis things do so because they are emotionally crippled (probably due to some sort of extreme childhood trauma that psychology has shown ALL children suffer from, and if they don't then they're blocking out the memory of it) and are incapable of coping with reality so must give things meaning that have no meaning for them just so that they can feel some meaning somewhere as the rest of their life is numb, probably due to blocking out those obligatory childhood traumas.

Conversely those who deny the psychological subtext of these stories do so because they cannot cope with the idea that their own actions are governed by subconscious motivations. Naturally this puts me in a position of superiority: while I still suffered the same childhood traumas and are governed by subconscious motivations, I am at least aware of this fact. I'm one step ahead of everyone else.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

I've actually thought about a theory like this and it just doesn't work lol. This guy repeats alot of the same nonsense throughout the vid as well.

[QUOTE="dkdk999"][QUOTE="Serraph105"] I watched a little bit, but frankly there isn't a shred of evidence in the books that suggests the series is alluding to something else. Even if the parallels exist, which I don't doubt because after all the whole series is based on something that doesn't truly exist, you just don't write seven books about a subject matter and never include references by any of the characters that this is all something else entirely. Foolz3h

The great thing about unconscious psychological motivation is that, while you cannot actually prove your theory, you certainly can't have it disproved.

For example I could say that people who over-analysis things do so because they are emotionally crippled (probably due to some sort of extreme childhood trauma that psychology has shown ALL children suffer from, and if they don't then they're blocking out the memory of it) and are incapable of coping with reality so must give things meaning that have no meaning for them just so that they can feel some meaning somewhere as the rest of their life is numb, probably due to blocking out those obligatory childhood traumas.

Conversely those who deny the psychological subtext of these stories do so because they cannot cope with the idea that their own actions are governed by subconscious motivations. Naturally this puts me in a position of superiority: while I still suffered the same childhood traumas and are governed by subconscious motivations, I am at least aware of this fact. I'm one step ahead of everyone else.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

I also think most people have suffered from trauma in their childhood and are unaware of it/in denial of it. And that theres significant problems in our society because of it. Just my personal opinion.

I've actually thought about a theory like this and it just doesn't work lol. This guy repeats alot of the same nonsense throughout the vid as well.

killerboi2

I will watch this when I get home :)

[QUOTE="DarthJohnova"]

There is absolutely zero proof for what he says; it's all hypothetical BS.

dkdk999

[QUOTE="dkdk999"]how much of it did you guys watch ? the parallels are insane. Even if you don't think it's true I found it an absolutely fascinating theory personally. Serraph105

[QUOTE="dkdk999"]

[QUOTE="DarthJohnova"]

There is absolutely zero proof for what he says; it's all hypothetical BS.

DarthJohnova

I've actually thought about a theory like this and it just doesn't work lol. This guy repeats alot of the same nonsense throughout the vid as well.

killerboi2