Vidrec Thursday
Missed last week for Thanksgiving, but I'm back.
This week here's an Orphan Black vid I love, "The Scientist" by
paperhearts81. This is one of those vids where you hear the opening chords and see what it's about and you just know the vidder has stumbled onto one of those alchemical matches of song and theme. It's an Cosima/Delphine vid to a female cover of Coldplay's "The Scientist".
It's structured around two main lyrical elements of the song. First, it plays with "Oh, take me back to the start", circling and circling around the significance of Cosima and Delphine's first meeting and finally getting back there in the vid's closing shots, but always aware of the levels of concealment that first meeting hid on both sides so that "take me back to the start" is this hesitant longing for a moment when they didn't know too much, but it's softened and yet intensified by the knowledge of all the good and all the joy that came later anyway. And second it revolves around "Questions of science, science and progress//Do not speak as loud as my heart" which is the ultimate question both of them are always asking in their relationship: Is my love for her more important than my love for the truth, my love for science, my love for the dream of a better humanity? Could there possibly be a better Cosima/Delphine song than this one?
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This week here's an Orphan Black vid I love, "The Scientist" by
paperhearts81. This is one of those vids where you hear the opening chords and see what it's about and you just know the vidder has stumbled onto one of those alchemical matches of song and theme. It's an Cosima/Delphine vid to a female cover of Coldplay's "The Scientist".
It's structured around two main lyrical elements of the song. First, it plays with "Oh, take me back to the start", circling and circling around the significance of Cosima and Delphine's first meeting and finally getting back there in the vid's closing shots, but always aware of the levels of concealment that first meeting hid on both sides so that "take me back to the start" is this hesitant longing for a moment when they didn't know too much, but it's softened and yet intensified by the knowledge of all the good and all the joy that came later anyway. And second it revolves around "Questions of science, science and progress//Do not speak as loud as my heart" which is the ultimate question both of them are always asking in their relationship: Is my love for her more important than my love for the truth, my love for science, my love for the dream of a better humanity? Could there possibly be a better Cosima/Delphine song than this one?
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