Oh, my. Oh, Effie. Oh, Katniss. I love how you've shown Katniss' arc, from sobbing and afraid to harsh and fierce and resigned, but I especially love how you've shown Effie. I think she's fascinating, and her arc of losing naivite and the honest compassion that comes out - you've humanised her a whole lot here, I think.
I heard this as "I am not the one who prays", before checking the lyrics - the prayer theme there, the raising-up of people and showing Snow, Gale, Katniss, Rue - that was especially striking, for me, this uncompromising and quite sudden barrage of, these are the symbols for different people and this is what they live and die for (or in Gale's cause, this is how they live and die) and this shows more than anything what their different situations and motivations are and mean - oh, that, I loved. It sent me reeling.
The song is *perfect*. "We are ever in the 99", a song about Occupy for films about the 1%? Brilliant. I interpret this as being Effie's voice and about Effie's arc, and, "I haven't come to say I'm sorry / But I swear I'm on your side" - oh, oh, bury me in the ocean. Oh, Effie.
So so good. All the bravo. *goes to watch it yet again*
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Date: 2014-05-12 10:39 pm (UTC)I heard this as "I am not the one who prays", before checking the lyrics - the prayer theme there, the raising-up of people and showing Snow, Gale, Katniss, Rue - that was especially striking, for me, this uncompromising and quite sudden barrage of, these are the symbols for different people and this is what they live and die for (or in Gale's cause, this is how they live and die) and this shows more than anything what their different situations and motivations are and mean - oh, that, I loved. It sent me reeling.
The song is *perfect*. "We are ever in the 99", a song about Occupy for films about the 1%? Brilliant. I interpret this as being Effie's voice and about Effie's arc, and, "I haven't come to say I'm sorry / But I swear I'm on your side" - oh, oh, bury me in the ocean. Oh, Effie.
So so good. All the bravo. *goes to watch it yet again*