Gift Vid: Strange Angels - for beccatoria

[chaila]

Title: Strange Angels
Recipient: beccatoria
Vidder: Sanguinity
Music: Laurie Anderson, "Strange Angels"
Summary: Heaven is a world that doesn't need you.
Notes: canon-typical violence

Link: Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[beccatoria]

Thank you! :D

I love how you use the black and white to create a motif an then bring in the old movie footage too - really interesting! And it's also a really intriguing (and effective) song choice. It's got a tone that both fits and exists in total tension with the character and her journey. Particuarly evident when the song shifts gear at the same time Sarah puts the gun to her head. Great moment there.

I like how when the singer shifts into a more "spoken word" style, you cut to appropriately...candid shots? (That's not the word I'm looking for but I'm sure you know what I mean - you capture the tone of "talking" without having to use talkyface shots). It added a sense of levity and poignancy to see them so human.

Thank you, anonymous vidder person!

[ghost_lingering]

Ooooh, very cool! I really like how you use footage from the films. It's still firmly a vid about the show, but these moments from the films give texture to Sarah's story in a way that's only implicit on the show.

[chaila]

I love this a lot! The intro gives me a lot of feelings about Sarah, the idea of the lighthouse as "TV", as a world she can just watch that doesn't need her, is so heartbreaking. But then, of course, the world does need her, and she has to be right in the thick of it. The "flashbacks" are seamless, how they incorporate both show and movie moments, and really add emotional texture to what's happening (the pen drop, Sarah in Pescadero while John's in therapy, Marty Bedell and Sarah's name in the phone book!) along with a real sense of how long she's been doing this. The more domestic moments with John add a lot too; sometimes she's just telling him to do the laundry, but then he goes and gives it to a killer robot. And other times she's cleaning his girlfriend's blood off the floor. And that montage of her leaving John towards the end. Oh Connors. But I love how after that, there's a sense of how she'll go on and keep being in the thick of it, off to whatever catches up with her next. I love her. <3

[frayadjacent]

Damn I love this vid. You really bring out how strong and consistent Sarah's characterization is -- this vid is great for understanding why she doesn't go with John, and the way she'll keep fighting after he leaves. I love the timing, e.g., when T2!John is is low-5ing the Terminator.

[colls]

Nice! I really like the juxtaposition of violence and domesticity early in the vid, and the use of the movie footage was really well done.

[caramarie]

Oh, this is really great! I love the use of the flashbacks, and how smoothly you've incorporated the movie footage there, and then at the end, when the flashbacks switch to being what we've thought of as the present ... oh, Sarah.

[nicole_anell]

Oh Sarah. <3 I really loved your editing here, and the movie parallels were subtle and well done, especially leading to the end! The relaxed or mundane moments were also nice here, whether the idyllic lighthouse or the bit with Derek and the toothbrush, right before we're back to ASSEMBLING GUNS and constant danger.