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Why do we like TRAGEDY if it makes us sad? The Last of Us and Arcane are two great examples of stories that end with a perfect implosion of every arc, and we love it, we enjoy every second of it, we specifically call these stories “BEAUTIFUL”. There’s a specific shape to these stories: Joel’s journey with Ellie falls apart in this inevitable symmetrical way that mixes love and violence, Jinx’s relationship with Vi and Silco explodes in a fiery inferno of hatred, grief, and empowerment. What can we learn from scenes like Rue’s death in the Hunger Games? What can we learn from non-tragic beautiful scenes like when the Jurassic Park characters first see dinosaurs? What about the train scene in Spirited Away? The ceasefire in Children of Men? The bombing sequence in Empire of the Sun? Can we unify the type of beautiful experience we feel in all these stories?

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0:00 - beauty is messy
3:54 - 4 ideas
8:41 - beauty definition #1
13:43 - beauty definition #2
17:51 - synthesizing the 2 ideas
19:17 - so why is tragedy beautiful?
23:54 - arcane ep3