About Movies

This is a video project I made for school. It's all about grief and suffering expressed in movies. They wanted us to take some scenes from movies we like and mix them with a music that fits.
I decided to call it "About Movies", following on the title of my last video project "About Television". (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdnArnKSj8&feature=related)
This video represents all of the five stages of grief.

Introduction:
"According to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, when we're dying or have suffered a catastrophic loss, we all move through five distinct stages of grief. We suffer because the loss is so unthinkable we can't imagine it's true. We become angry with everyone, angry with survivors, angry with ourselves. Then we bargain, we beg, we plead. We offer everything we have, we offer our souls in exchange for just one more day. When the bargaining has failed and the anger is too hard to maintain, we fall into depression, despair, until finally we have to accept that we've done everything we can. We let go and move into acceptance."


STEP BY STEP
0.00 -- 0.20 "Paranoid Park"/ This scene is like the intro of the whole video, it gives me a nostalgic and melancholy feeling.

0.21 -- 0.35 "Non ti muovere"/ Here's the "loss" stage. Ambulances give the idea of an accident.

0.35 -- 0.48 "Paranoid Park"/ It's kinda difficult here.. I wanted to reproduce the feeling you get (a fast motion feeling, like everything's moving so fast and you can't comprehend what's happening) when people tell you a bad new and in this scene cars are moving fast.

0.48 -- 1.05 "12 and Holding"/ I think this scene fits perfectly when Sia sings "be my friend": it's like the little girl is thinking that. After a loss or a huge grief, there's denial/reaction. Reactions are different on everyone and she reacts falling in love with an older guy.

1:05 -- 1.25 "L.I.E."/ Another vision of the denial. Some people commit suicide (I didn't make the scene end cause I wanted to create suspense; in fact I faded the scene thru black), some people do strange or stupid things cause the loss is so unthinkable we can't imagine it's true.

BLACK is kinda significant here, it represents the step between denial and anger.

1.25 -- 1.46/ "Grey's Anatomy, 3x17"/ I just edited this scene cause I liked the "I've lost myself again" meanwhile the woman's drowning.

1.46 -- 1.52 "Wild Tigers I Have Known"/ Remembrances of the past. The boy represents the childhood of the disappeared/dead person. We instantly try to remember funny and happy things of the dead, cause we want to be happy thinking of him/her. Plus, the boy is writing on his chest "It didn't kill me", kind of a message of hope: even after a huge loss, he stayed alive, it didn't kill him.

1.52 -- 1.55 "Hard Candy"/ It's a small part to divide the denial patch. It represents a time of confusion and bewilderment due to the huge grief.

1.55 -- 2.00 "Candy"/ It now starts the anger part.

2.00 -- 2.12 "Elephant"/ The anger patch still continues and I liked the scene cause it sums up the two previous stages. The two boys, due to a massive quantity of grief, are angry and they react killing other students.

2.12 -- 2.15 "L.I.E."/ Anger part shown from another perspective.

2.15 -- 2.35 "Non Ti Muovere"/ The acting is awesome in this scene. She screams and he's totally lost.

2.35 -- 2.47 "Candy"/ From this moment on, the two following stages (bargaining and depression) are, in my opinion, correlated. I used the little flash between the "Non Ti Muovere" and "Candy" scenes cause I wanted to underline the division from anger and depression/bargaining.

2.47 -- 3.05 "Paranoid Park"/ Still depression patch.

BLACK

3.11 -- 3.24 "Hard Candy"/ I thought that at some point of the stages, depression and bargaining mix also with some anger too. The anger returns.

3.24 -- 3.34 "Amores Perros"/ The anger still acts.

3.24 -- 3.42 "Hard Candy"/ The anger is now passed and we have moved on but the depression and desperation/fear feelings overwhelm and overtake us.

3.42 -- 3.50 "Magnolia"/ Fear (of death?)

3.50 -- end. "Le Conseguenze dell'Amore"/ This is the last stage: acceptance. It's short and last cause it's very very difficult to accept a catastrophic loss. Some people can't accept it entirely so they "help" themselves with different things, like sex, drugs, cries and other things. I underlined the drug issue here: the man accepts the loss using drugs (you can see the syringe in his arm).


ENJOY!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• movies
• about
• project
• sia
• breathe
• me

[kevan92]

which move is it at 2:13?

[wolwol3]

@kevan92 it's called "L.I.E."

it's all written in the description tho, it explains the video a bit more. ;)

[Lightnday]

Very reflective. The song fits perfectly with the feeling of helplessness and need of comforting.

Congrats :)

What subject matter did you make this for, by the way?

[wolwol3]

@Lightnday Thank you !

[SurgeonSeth]

This video is.. kind of PERFECT.

[ShadowHawk776]

Very well edited. Good job man.

[cicciocardullo]

Montaggio stupendo, Così bello da togliere il fiato.

[slavetothewage89]

Bellissimo! Mi è sembrato di vedere Meredith: sarà stata un'allucinazione....XD

A parte gli scherzi, è davvero stupendo, i tuoi montaggi sono sempre molto coinvolgenti ;)