meeting, life and death II - ( Jacques Brel - Grand Jacques) Wooten and Cohen

[oYoYebutu]

A video for friends, fans, and the generally disenchanted, the gloriously posh, the vainly angst-stricken intellectuals.

A video, too, for when there is nothing left except the will which says to one, 'hold on' (thak you, Mr K).

[oYoYebutu]

The need to make the viewer aware of some sort of negligence on the part of the author is what I find puzzling. There is shadow one will deem unwanted, there is glimmer which is bothersome. Sloppy lighting, one would think. Using, as it seems, a camera as cheap as the one I can afford (on the device I use to take pictures with). Not editing the sound (there is this buzz towards the end of each section). Repeating the whole (a film is a film is a film?). Sarcasm. Murder. Void.

[clairedelune49]

Can anyone say why Brel's "Grand Jacques" was chosen to accompany this bizarre video?

[oYoYebutu]

@clairedelune49 What is bizarre about it? It is the kind of film you get these days from people who will strive to stay away from what others have done.

Why Brel? The answer could be in the lyrics, in the tune itself, in the author's preferences and way of looking at the world around them; or elsewhere. Since the author is alive, maybe one could hope an answer will come from them.

(Will it?)

[VNRose3]

@oYoYebutu Yes, you are so right. The answer is in the lyrics. As Grand Jacques said, "C'est trop facile de faire semblant"-- "It's too easy to be pretentious."