Mickey's Descent Into Madness

I've released Mickey Descent Into Madness OST on spotify and all streaming platforms! open.spotify.com/artist/10iFh3psxvBxiiyvveUJYY?si=…

And remember folks:
If disney copyright claims this its officially canon

"How I stretched a 3 minute joke into a fucking trilogy"

I love the deeper meanings of this animation, the characters were never Disney characters at all. It was all the result of the broken mind of a war veteran who had to live with a horrible mistake he made. His slow and steady fall into madness caused his sense of self and reality to blend with so many things he had seen before until he couldn’t tell the difference between the reality he’s trapped in and the fiction he watched as a kid. It was all a blur, a blur that only gained clarity when he realized and accepted his mistake and the way it affected everyone and himself

I just realized that the reason Mike/Micky saw everything as the cartoon and his reality was so distorted was because once he got back from his mission the CIA put him through MK-ULTRA to make sure he stayed quiet and genuinely believed in what he did.

His lying and keeping the file was his psyche in some way absolutely refusing to believe that and refusing to let it go.

His mind tried to crawl into his childhood, making everything a cartoon to cope, but it didn't work. No matter what he couldn't leave the war, couldn't leave what he did. Irregardless of how hard he tried.

The worst punishment for Mickey was to not be punished at all

When i saw the twist that they weren’t Disney characters at all, that was when I realized this wasn’t a shitpost anymore. This was art.

it's no coincidence that steam boat willie goes public and youtube recommends this video again

11:22 I like how with everything Mickey says to the interrogator he immediately responds because it’s all expected but when he says goofy the interrogator pauses because he has to think about what he means

the fact that a shitpost turned into a legitimately high budget saga never fails to amaze me

There's no one else in the world who can do what you do.

One thing I just realized is that when the voice is asking him if he destroyed the documents, his voice flutters a little when he says "yes", unlike the monotone nature of all of his other answers. He kept the documents all that time, despite his orders to destroy them, because he couldn't bring himself to destroy the thing his best friend gave his life to protect. That's amazing storytelling right there in my opinion. It was only because he never destroyed the documents out of respect for his friend's determination that the only friend he had left gave up when he was forced to read them.

You tricked me.
You made me think I was going to watch some meme-ish nonsense, but I ended up watching a dramatic masterpiece.

It started from a shitpost that escalated into a cinematic masterpiece

Yes officer? That’s it. That’s it right there. The shitpost that spun out of control and became an amazing story. Please arrest it. It’s making me sad

My father was in Vietnam. I only found this out after he died. It cleared up a lot of his solitary quirks that I never understood when he was alive, and I wondered why he never told me himself…

After seeing this video I can’t help but think: Perhaps it was because he was perpetually battling his own descent into madness, and none of us realized it at the time.

12:07 The guitar chord just as "Goofey" disappears and we see the man himself for the first time, it still haunts me. This is absolutely amazing, well done.

The backgrounds are insane, holy dang!

The fact that Disney cartoons have historically been used for the USA’s war propaganda machines also makes it all even more of a masterpiece about the horror that was the Vietnam war.

Its honestly insane, how war drove this man insane. To the point where he kills goofy. But watching as he slowly starts remembering reality. This was a man who was driven so mad, that everyone everything turned into cartoon characters. Or maybe, this was a way to tone it down. But the fact that before he was sounding like the actual mickey, but now, it's a whole different voice. It's just honestly insane what could happen to a man after he truly snaps.