Re: Food for soul
This is how it spoke to me:
Scene opens with abandoned and dilapidated town. I saw it as allegory of our civilization which consumes everything and spits it out. A man who looks like someone who has wasted his life faces a new day, same day like any other in his existence - washed out and dead. He is putting a wedding ring on and we can guess that he has lost his wife and daughter. This is confirmed with his self talk and as he goes through his day trying to find comfort in booze he is haunted by his dead daughter. We are actually watching a redux of his lifetime stuck on a repeat in regret and self-contempt until finally he drinks himself into the ground. Whether he is just a coward unable to face life, an alcoholic who accidentally set his house with wife and daughter on fire, gambler who has lost everything including his family could be any of these things - we see a horror of a failed human being- and this is especially painful because it seems to be a norm on this planet. Words "God trusted me with your life but I'm a fraud" - are especially poignant - life is one of greatest mysteries in this universe and we tend to have pretty careless and wasteful attitude towards it.
As he is dying he gets reunited with his daughter and has a moment of clarity ("Remember that this life is just an illusion ""fear only brings death to the soul"). He will be reincarnated but will he repeat the same mistakes? Probably - the whole cycle will be repeated over and over again. But those moments of clarity offer some hope. With every new beginning ( baby) there is hope.
Dunno - for me the music in this video is exactly that- just beautiful and it directly touches the soul. As if anyone can explain this properly?! But again that is the matter of taste and resonance I guess. I love Sigur Ros music and I am definitely biased. Many people would probably find hard rock or heavy metal more moving and they find the high pitches of Sigur Ros singer's voice which border on off key irritating. I experience it as imperfection that completes perfection.
I have been following Sigur Ros project - they commissioned bunch of artists to give visuals to their songs. And I thought the experiment was quite successful. One of the commenters mentioned this video is reminiscent of Tree of Life movie (https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,23701.msg323167.html#msg323167) , which I loved to bits although majority of the usual cinema goers found it incomprehensible and completely pointless.
Just in case you are open to learn more about their music this is for me one of their most powerful tunes which always "connects me to the source" for the lack of better words to explain it.
https://youtu.be/8LeQN249Jqw
kenlee said:The first reaction I experienced when viewing the video was one of depression. The ballerina girl looked like she was a ghost, an earthbound spirit trapped in-between worlds endlessly repeating some kind of traumatic experience that she was enslaved by, within her own mind, like she was caught in some kind of automatic dream loop or trapped in some kind of recurrent dream without consciousness and sensitivity of which she could never escape. So right there it made me depressed.
This is how it spoke to me:
Scene opens with abandoned and dilapidated town. I saw it as allegory of our civilization which consumes everything and spits it out. A man who looks like someone who has wasted his life faces a new day, same day like any other in his existence - washed out and dead. He is putting a wedding ring on and we can guess that he has lost his wife and daughter. This is confirmed with his self talk and as he goes through his day trying to find comfort in booze he is haunted by his dead daughter. We are actually watching a redux of his lifetime stuck on a repeat in regret and self-contempt until finally he drinks himself into the ground. Whether he is just a coward unable to face life, an alcoholic who accidentally set his house with wife and daughter on fire, gambler who has lost everything including his family could be any of these things - we see a horror of a failed human being- and this is especially painful because it seems to be a norm on this planet. Words "God trusted me with your life but I'm a fraud" - are especially poignant - life is one of greatest mysteries in this universe and we tend to have pretty careless and wasteful attitude towards it.
As he is dying he gets reunited with his daughter and has a moment of clarity ("Remember that this life is just an illusion ""fear only brings death to the soul"). He will be reincarnated but will he repeat the same mistakes? Probably - the whole cycle will be repeated over and over again. But those moments of clarity offer some hope. With every new beginning ( baby) there is hope.
kenlee said:The music was even more depressing! So the music just enhanced the affect. I felt the depression all the way thru and could not understand it not even from a (subjective) meaningful or symbolic level. I then read some of the comments from the viewers hoping that they would explain it but all I got is that it was 'beautiful," "emotional", it's all "about love" and so on. Actually, imo it was all about 'feeling' as if intense feeling (in this case depression) was indicative of deeper meaning. But no one could explain it, even at a purely subjective 'meaningful' level.
Dunno - for me the music in this video is exactly that- just beautiful and it directly touches the soul. As if anyone can explain this properly?! But again that is the matter of taste and resonance I guess. I love Sigur Ros music and I am definitely biased. Many people would probably find hard rock or heavy metal more moving and they find the high pitches of Sigur Ros singer's voice which border on off key irritating. I experience it as imperfection that completes perfection.
I have been following Sigur Ros project - they commissioned bunch of artists to give visuals to their songs. And I thought the experiment was quite successful. One of the commenters mentioned this video is reminiscent of Tree of Life movie (https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,23701.msg323167.html#msg323167) , which I loved to bits although majority of the usual cinema goers found it incomprehensible and completely pointless.
Just in case you are open to learn more about their music this is for me one of their most powerful tunes which always "connects me to the source" for the lack of better words to explain it.
https://youtu.be/8LeQN249Jqw
I am afraid you lost me here, could you try to explain what you meant in a more simple way.kenlee said:I think what this video lacked was 'common sense' that is, a sense of reality to it that is common to thinking, feeling, and organic instinct which includes the higher realities of spiritual creative inspiration, symbology, and psychological dynamics where everything is interconnected and rightly fits together so as to express meaning and understanding at several levels of reality simultaneously. 'Higher' does not mean better or superior since all levels of reality are equally necessary to convey deeper understanding. They just must fit together 'rightly.' Imo, it especially lacked the 'down to earth' touch to it which left it ungrounded in this everyday mundane reality so I just could not relate to it. It sorta just kind of floated in some hopeless netherworld without meaning or inspiration which made me even more depressed!