Oh my god. I want to hold up a candle or something. not a lighter and definitely not a cellphone. um that was embarrassing right. Okay, this is stunning. Sheila. THIS IS STUNNING. From the little flourishes (or where you expand outside that 4/4 beat and then land on it (the cop's half-note rising walk at 1:18; the candle at 1:34; not-Zoe's arch and snap) or where there's internal movement that's faster than that relentless 4/4 but still /on beat/ like the lightning at 1:07 (16th notes perfectly) or the portal wrapping up at 2:21 to the 16th note accents that are getting louder in the music. OMG)
--but this is all kind of icing, because the strength of this vid is about what it /means/ and guh. There's a statement somewhere (Inga Muscio?) about abuse begetting abuse: "Hurt people hurt people." But this is all about resisting that; about the struggle /not/ to just keep perpetuating awfulness in an impossibly horrible world, and the flashes of good things in that world. The struggle to keep faith and to keep acting in faith. Gah. This is the honorable stoic; this is Gunn. I should probably watch again but one of the things that struck me? That "the Way" is the truth of a rotting corpse. That throughout, Gunn has to forgo the easy way out and go for the painful one. Just. Beautiful.
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I want to hold up a candle or something. not a lighter and definitely not a cellphone. um that was embarrassing right. Okay, this is stunning. Sheila. THIS IS STUNNING. From the little flourishes (or where you expand outside that 4/4 beat and then land on it (the cop's half-note rising walk at 1:18; the candle at 1:34; not-Zoe's arch and snap) or where there's internal movement that's faster than that relentless 4/4 but still /on beat/ like the lightning at 1:07 (16th notes perfectly) or the portal wrapping up at 2:21 to the 16th note accents that are getting louder in the music. OMG)--but this is all kind of icing, because the strength of this vid is about what it /means/ and guh. There's a statement somewhere (Inga Muscio?) about abuse begetting abuse: "Hurt people hurt people." But this is all about resisting that; about the struggle /not/ to just keep perpetuating awfulness in an impossibly horrible world, and the flashes of good things in that world. The struggle to keep faith and to keep acting in faith. Gah. This is the honorable
stoic; this is Gunn. I should probably watch again but one of the things that struck me? That "the Way" is the truth of a rotting corpse. That throughout, Gunn has to forgo the easy way out and go for the painful one. Just. Beautiful.