Fanvid: Hallelujah

[falafel_musings]

Fandom: Hunger Games
Characters/Ships: Katniss/Peeta
Description: Our love is not a victory march.
Length: 4.15mins
Beta: cylune9
Warnings: Spoilers for all films.
Vidder's Note: Coming out of LJ retirement to share my new fanvid with any THG fans on my flist.

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[falafel_musings]

Thanks daybreak! You know, I’ve never been a hardcore Hunger Games fan but when I was watching Mockingjay pt2 last month, this song was echoing through my mind whenever Katniss and Peeta were on screen together. The song inspired me to make this tribute to their relationship, which to my mind is not a romance but the story of two people bonding over an extraordinary mutual trauma. Two people thrust into a coercive relationship who develop co-dependency as a survival mechanism, who seek comfort in each other and find love with one another, but is that love the one prize they win from their shared ordeal or is it their ultimate submission to the totalitarian forces who commodified and propagandized their love before it could be realized through sincere intimacy? Love is not supposed to feel like this. Victory is not supposed to conquer you like this. That’s what the song ‘Hallelujah’ has always meant to me - a love song that is raging over the false triumphalism of all our traditional love songs.

Anyway. Thanks for watching and nice to hear from you again.