Oh, HONEY! You captured everything I completely love about this episode so wonderfully! I'm going to be watching this one sooooo much.
I never posted about Who for ... well many reasons actually ... but this episode hit me hard and deeply. I loved so much about its portrayal of mental illness and depression and particularly the fact that they showed that it can't be easily understood or fixed, that it results in an actual different experience of of life. And of course that there can be beauty in the madness. Oh, Vincent!
I am sure we all have our personal relationship with him as an artist but my own was that stumbling on Sunflowers in London in the National Gallery at 18, I understood for the first time that visual art could transfix someone. (Hey, I was an Aussie kid, we're not that cultured!)
The two moments I actually love most in this vid are at 0.54 (Eleven's expression after 'nothing ever does') followed soon after by the sunflowers on the coffin (gorgeous metaphor). Amy breathes life into the sunflowers (and Vincent) briefly, but they shine brighter for their juxtaposition with the haunted imagery.
Thank you SO MUCH for making this! Now I don't have to. :)
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I never posted about Who for ... well many reasons actually ... but this episode hit me hard and deeply. I loved so much about its portrayal of mental illness and depression and particularly the fact that they showed that it can't be easily understood or fixed, that it results in an actual different experience of of life. And of course that there can be beauty in the madness. Oh, Vincent!
I am sure we all have our personal relationship with him as an artist but my own was that stumbling on Sunflowers in London in the National Gallery at 18, I understood for the first time that visual art could transfix someone. (Hey, I was an Aussie kid, we're not that cultured!)
The two moments I actually love most in this vid are at 0.54 (Eleven's expression after 'nothing ever does') followed soon after by the sunflowers on the coffin (gorgeous metaphor). Amy breathes life into the sunflowers (and Vincent) briefly, but they shine brighter for their juxtaposition with the haunted imagery.
Thank you SO MUCH for making this! Now I don't have to. :)