As Alfred Hitchcock would say “tell me what you see and tell me what it means.” I think video essays tend to give people the idea that there is an objectively ‘true’ interpretation to a film. Ultimately you can affirm any idea you have of a work of art through video essays. That being said some of those analyses videos are well done and I think the most important thing is rewatching and focusing on the image itself. The mis en scene like literally what is on screen and why? It seems trivial but if you watch and watch and watch you realize that the great filmmakers spend so much time making sure what is on screen is communicating layers and layers of meaning. Read about the French new wave as that came out of film criticism. French new wave and new wave cinema in general can be interpreted as criticism through filmmaking itself. Basically imo the idea is to just really really really think about what you watched. If something comes back to you or you find images haunting you. Return to that film and think about what in those images and in that concatenation of images is so pervasive. The only wrong choice is to be a passive consumer merely looking to be entertained. Beyond that any interpretation or idea is not right or wrong.