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ORLANDO 1992. "COMING" JIMMY SOMERVILLE

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Orlando cuenta la historia de un viaje a través del tiempo, de alguien que vive por espacio de cuatrocientos años, primero como hombre y más tarde como mujer.
Retrata el pensamiento de Virginia Woolf acerca de la dualidad sexual, de hecho Orlando es una historia fantástica basada en algunos pasajes de la vida de Vita Sackville-West.

AÑO: 1992

GÉNERO: Drama Fantástico / Cine De Arte

DURACIÓN: 93 minutos

GUIÓN: Sally Potter

MÚSICA: David Motion, Sally Potter & Jimmy Somerville

FOTOGRAFÍA: Alexei Rodionov

REPARTO: Tilda Swinton, Lothaire Bluteau, Quentin Crisp, Billy Zane, John Wood, Charlotte Valandrey, Heathcote Williams

"COMING"

I am coming! I am coming!
I am coming through!
Coming across the divide to you

In this moment of unity
feeling an ecstacy
to be here, to be now
At last I am free

Yes at last, at last
to be free of the past
and the future that beckons me

I am coming! I am coming!
Here I am!
Neither a woman, nor a man

We are joined, we are one
With the human face
We are joined, we are one
With the human face

I am on earth
And I am in outer space
I'm being born and I am dying

I am on earth
And I am in outer space
I'm being born and I am dying

I am coming! I am coming!
I am coming through!
Coming across the divide to you

In this moment of unity
feeling an ecstacy
to be here, to be now
At last I am free!

Yes at last, at last
to be free of the past
and the future that beckons me

Yes at last, at last
to be free of the past
and the future that beckons me

I am coming! I am coming!
Here I am!
Neither a woman, nor a man

Oh we are joined, we are one
with the human face
Oh we are joined, we are one
with the human face

At last I am free!
At last I am free!

I am on earth
And I am in outer space
I'm being born and I am dying

I am on earth
And I am in outer space
I'm being born, I am dying

At last I am free!
At last I am free!!!

Yes at last, at last, at last I'm free!
Yes at last, at last, at last I'm free!

Jimmy Somerville & Sally Potter

Ésta canción habla sobre la dualidad y la eternidad expresada a través del personaje de Orlando, aunque a mi parecer también puede hablar del Amor, pues en algún momento la frase "Neither a woman, nor a man" expresa: "No soy hombre ni mujer" y la frase "I'm being born and I am dying" expresa: "Estoy naciendo y muriendo", lo que puede significar que el amor no tiene cara, ni siquiera una concepción más allá de la que se nos da o tenemos de él pero existe, y puede estar en la Tierra y en cualquier parte del Universo.

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  • this is my absolute most favorite song since I've seen the movie the first time back in the 90s. Nice tribute video!

  • Such a gorgous film. And what a fabulous, haunting song. Thanks for posting!

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  • @dhfun1 - my partner introduced this movie to me in the mid 90s. I, too, found it particulary cerebral. But, I fell in love with it.

  • It's like Elizabethan minstrel songs meets... "The Safety Dance"

    When I heard this song in the DVD Menu I was like "wtf?" but then remembered the movie takes you up to the present day. So it was with a great deal of anticipation I pressed 'Play'. And wow, this song made it one of the most moving happy-endings I'd ever seen in a film.

    AND Sally Potter herself does backing vocals in it. =-)

  • @dhfun1 you need to extend your Horizons... a terrific film & Book.....read & learn my friend :-))

  • Lovely song! Woolf's novel of the same name is her long love letter to the poetic family--Sackville Wests--through the centuries, culminating with Vita Sackville-West .

  • @Damselfred same thing here!

  • A film that's unlike any other. As to this song, I still listen to it once or twice a month.

  • well I guess i'm in love with Virginia's mind

  • Back in ’93 after she saw this movie, my wife casually and cunningly induced me to watch it. As the movie progressed, my puzzlement grew and grew as I attempted to figure out what was supposed to be taking place in it. My wife was surreptitiously watching me out of the corner of her eye when the girl unexpectedly and bizarrely transformed into a guy. She told me later that she could not stop laughing because of the look on my face the instant that action occurred onscreen.

  • I am not taken to swearing but when that happened I was so stunned that I just started blathering stuff like, “What the fuck just happened?!! Huh?!! What the fuck is going on with this fucked-up movie? Did you spike my drink with LSD? What the fuck is this shit? I have never seen shit like this. Jesus, what is going on?!! Are you trying to mind fuck me?!” She simply laughed uproariously through my entire rant.

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