stop living a fake life.

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"Change life, start fresh."

I started editing silly videos back in 2011/2012, but the sole reason I started uploading them on YouTube was to show them to two of my friends and my father. Most of the time, the stuff I did was to amuse myself or to look back on it once I've moved on -to laugh, reminisce. The time spent editing turned out to be more productive and fun than doing nothing at home, so it became a neat hobby. Eventually, my friends moved on from watching the silly videos I made. My father was very busy, so I got left with no audience. Well, I was going to move on too eventually because my dream was to be a pilot, but unfortunately for me, I could not become one due to my health condition.

Well, being depressed I stopped editing for a year. However, I could not sit around doing anything on my PC so, in 2015, I posted a video which to my surprise got a lot of engagement and so forth began my story.

I've always tried to challenge myself to be different from everyone. To be able to tell the stories I wanted to tell better than anyone. Some would say learning new tools and editing became an unhealthy obsession of mine. Much of it was filled with sleepless nights, missed days of going out or deprived of human connection. I was never an expressive person, I could rarely say the things I truly wanted to say or tell things I felt. Some years ago, I found that things I wanted to say easily bled through videos I produced and so it became my therapy. There are things I want to express, but I can never grasp the words to say them. Therefore, the only way I can do it is to find them somewhere, stitch them together and arrange them on my NLE's timeline. What you see here sometimes is what I want to say with the mouths of dozens of films. And I want them to be heard by you. You who breathed life into this channel. It's easy to admit that I would've been lost without you. Since that first-ever comment in 2015, I have read every single one and I read every single one of your comments. It does not matter to me if I have a hundred or a million views, it still gets me excited to see analytics knowing each number represents a single person that took minutes of their day to watch what I spent days on making.

Thank you.
-D.

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*Music: Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead
an Orchestral cover by Epic Orchestra.

[TheGaroStudios]

Thank you for watching!
*MOVIES USED*

1984, _dir._ Michael Radford
Dreams, _dir._ Akira Kurosawa
Alphaville, _dir._ Jean-Luc Godard
American Psycho, _dir._ Mary Harron
Birdman, _dir._ Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu
Happy Together, _dir._ Wong Kar-Wai
Chungking Express, _dir._ Wong Kar-Wai
Cinema Paradiso, _dir._ Giuseppe Tornatore
Cries and Whispers, _dir._ Ingmar Bergman
8½, _dir._ Federico Fellini
Fallen Angels, _dir._ Wong Kar-Wai
Falling Down, _dir._ Joel Schumacher
Fight Club, _dir._ David Fincher
Forrest Gump, _dir._ Robert Zemeckis
Gladiator, _dir._ Ridley Scott
Groundhog Day, _dir._ Harold Ramis
Hector and the Search for Happiness, _dir._ Peter Chelsom
I Killed My Mother, _dir._ Xavier Dolan
Ikiru, _dir._ Akira Kurosawa
Into The Wild, _dir._ Sean Penn
La Dolce Vita, _dir._ Federico Fellini
Little Women, _dir._ Greta Gerwig
Lost In Translation, _dir._ Sofia Coppola
Mommy, _dir._ Xavier Dolan
Moonlight, _dir._ Barry Jenkins
Office Space, _dir._ Mike Judge
Persona, _dir._ Ingmar Bergman
Playtime, _dir._ Jacques Tati
Requiem for a Dream, _dir._ Darren Aronofsky
Taxi Driver, _dir._ Martin Scorsese
The 400 Blows, _dir._ François Truffaut
The Breakfast Club, _dir._ John Hughes
The Darjeeling Limited, _dir._ Wes Anderson
The Double Life of Veronique, _dir._ Krzysztof Kieślowski
The Legend of 1900, _dir._ Giuseppe Tornatore
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, _dir._ Ben Stiller
The Shawshank Redemption, _dir._ Frank Darabont
The Truman Show, _dir._ Peter Weir
The Mirror, _dir._ Andrei Tarkosvky
Through A Glass Darkly, _dir._ Ingmar Bergman
Trainspotting, _dir._ Danny Boyle
V for Vendetta, _dir._ James McTeigue
Wings of Desire, _dir._ Wim Wenders
Solaris, _dir._ Andrei Tarkovsky

[ahmedghabri]

“It's one of my theories that when people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.”

[mantha]

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
- Carl Jung

[chriscanul]

Our Sociology class just finished watching The Truman Show, God bless you sir.

[ieh]

I can't afford therapy but that doesn't matter, i have *TheGaroStudious 💖*

[TaiNguyen-xtgg]

The Internet is a maelstrom of beauty and of hatred. Where you end up is up to you.
I think now i'm on a good side lol

[ZurikM]

You always put your heart and soul into each of your videos, but it's clear that this video is different from the others, because in addition to the usual message and delivering important information to the viewer, we can also watch your story. I noticed this from the first seconds I read the video description. I'm so happy for you, David! Your story is a description of the life of any person. A person should always have something that he likes to do and feels that he lives...and creativity here is one of the best salvation. Don't spend your whole life on what you don't like and what isn't yours. You don't have to live a fake life. Find something of your own. Then you will live the real life.

And My God, at 2:35, I literally got goosebumps. You not only beautifully matched the scene to the music, but also perfectly conveyed everything that was shown earlier.. It's as if this scene tells us that we are not living a full life, not a real life...but we can change it, if we give ourselves to something new.
And the editing at 2:43 with people running to their dreams, people with a goal ... Wow. I'm speechless. Bravo! 👏

This will be my favorite video of yours. And btw, congrats with 400k subscribers! 🎉🎉🎉 What a number! You deserve this and much more for your hard work, brother!

[carpediem]

The beauty of these videos let me know that I am not alone. Somewhere out there are people who feel the same way I do, I truly hope you make your life resemble the life you've always internally dreamed of. Let your individuality stand out, our time here is limited.

[frankzsausage]

This video hits me hard and I literally just had a journey of self reflection for simply 4 minutes and 49 seconds

[KatrinDh]

"To live is the rarest thing in the world". Thank you for this marvelous reminder. Keep 'em coming.

[THELIVINGSEB]

The 1:1 aspect ratio is something that I never knew I needed more of, before watching this video

[williamdavis]

This is one of the most powerful videos I’ve ever seen. Not to be dramatic, but you are an editing giant and this is your masterpiece.

[midas_lost]

I'm autistic, and film montages like this are one of my obsessions. You make my day, nearly every day, with these. Please, if you can, never stop.

[juulcruiming]

"Life is as kind as you let it be."

[dilipmallick]

Garo Studios edits are like a bandage to the wounded world.

[cjthewhovian]

How can it be possible that this video came at the exact right time for me! I’ve been thinking about this theme over the past week or so as I’ve been rediscovering my love for Italy and questioning my 9 to 5 job. You always manage to capture these ideas so wonderfully and you’ve given me so much inspiration over the years. Thank you so much for your beautiful work 💕

[denizmdk]

I wanted to watch exactly THIS video in my entire life

[erik]

Its so cool that you used different languages. I am from Sweden so it was kind of special hearing that swedish :)

[legacyofall]

Every word you wrote in that description about ur journey, expressed an emotion which came magnificently through this prism of video. Great job and keep challenging yourself

[panosdks]

Such a pity editors can’t get paid by yt, because this is ART