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Hapiyut shel Harley Quinn / הפיוט של הארלי קווין (8 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Cassandra Cain & Harleen Quinzel
Characters: Harleen Quinzel, Cassandra Cain
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:
Harley Quinn attempts Teshuvah. The good thing about Teshuvah being a process is that you can do it more than once.
I just premiered this vid at the Wiscon Vidparty. Apparently I am halfway through vidding the finalists for the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation- Long Form. My vids for Soul and Eurovision will premiere, respectively, at Con.Txt and Vidukon. I still need to make vids for The Old Guard, Palm Springs, and Tenet.
Margot Robbie's performance as Harley Quinn in this movie is mesmerizing, she is the definition of anti-hero. She is so fragile, except when she has pivoted to have total control of the situation. She is so self-contained, except when she lets people in. And there seems to be a trajectory to her actions, not necessarily toward becoming a better person, but at least toward being more herself. I tried to imagine this trajectory in Jewish terms as something akin to, if not exactly comprising, a process of teshuva, and so, using the language of Jewish poet Leonard Cohen, I constructed Hapiyut shel Harley Quinn, the prayer-poem of Harley Quinn. The title positions it within the liturgical tradition of the medieval payetanim who wrote searing prayers of introspection and emotional self-evaluation.
[is Harley Quinn Jewish? She shoplifts Stella D'Oro cookies, obviously she's Jewish!]
At the same time, there is a more obvious throughline which inspired the song selection. Harley's progression is to become 'like a bird', as in like a Bird of Prey, an extra-legal agent of transformation trying to bend the arc toward justice instead of merely survival. And also to become 'like a bird' in the sense that Cohen imagines, beautiful and desperately trying to retain freedom. Harley's playful, childlike aesthetic is so much a storytelling part of the movie. The text that she scribes all over her body testifies to how she sees herself and how she wants to be seen.
I said in vidchat that this vidding process was a thesis statement in search of a thesis. I feel like my opening section is so devastatingly good that it makes up for some sloppiness later in the vid that's the result of my rushed process. But on the whole I'm really pleased with how this vid came out. This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/379585.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
comments.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Cassandra Cain & Harleen Quinzel
Characters: Harleen Quinzel, Cassandra Cain
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:
Harley Quinn attempts Teshuvah. The good thing about Teshuvah being a process is that you can do it more than once.
Click to viewI just premiered this vid at the Wiscon Vidparty. Apparently I am halfway through vidding the finalists for the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation- Long Form. My vids for Soul and Eurovision will premiere, respectively, at Con.Txt and Vidukon. I still need to make vids for The Old Guard, Palm Springs, and Tenet.
Margot Robbie's performance as Harley Quinn in this movie is mesmerizing, she is the definition of anti-hero. She is so fragile, except when she has pivoted to have total control of the situation. She is so self-contained, except when she lets people in. And there seems to be a trajectory to her actions, not necessarily toward becoming a better person, but at least toward being more herself. I tried to imagine this trajectory in Jewish terms as something akin to, if not exactly comprising, a process of teshuva, and so, using the language of Jewish poet Leonard Cohen, I constructed Hapiyut shel Harley Quinn, the prayer-poem of Harley Quinn. The title positions it within the liturgical tradition of the medieval payetanim who wrote searing prayers of introspection and emotional self-evaluation.
[is Harley Quinn Jewish? She shoplifts Stella D'Oro cookies, obviously she's Jewish!]
At the same time, there is a more obvious throughline which inspired the song selection. Harley's progression is to become 'like a bird', as in like a Bird of Prey, an extra-legal agent of transformation trying to bend the arc toward justice instead of merely survival. And also to become 'like a bird' in the sense that Cohen imagines, beautiful and desperately trying to retain freedom. Harley's playful, childlike aesthetic is so much a storytelling part of the movie. The text that she scribes all over her body testifies to how she sees herself and how she wants to be seen.
I said in vidchat that this vidding process was a thesis statement in search of a thesis. I feel like my opening section is so devastatingly good that it makes up for some sloppiness later in the vid that's the result of my rushed process. But on the whole I'm really pleased with how this vid came out. This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/379585.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
comments.