Gift Vid: The Dream Before - for ghost lingering

[chaila]

Title: The Dream Before
Recipient: ghost lingering
Vidder: Sanguinity
Music: Laurie Anderson, "The Dream Before"
Summary: To repair the things that have been broken.
Notes: canon-typical violence

Link: Link to signed vid post

Comments

[chaila]

This is such an amaaaazing song choice, and every clip choice in this is just right. It's such an ambiguous treatment of time travel, how they get sent back or send themselves back to change things--to make things better, because they love each other and want to fix what's broken. But of course it's never that controlled, and they die and kill others and often don't even know the ramifications of their actions. "Progress" with that time bubble and Derek's pained face, preparing to shoot Jesse, it's shivery good.

[sanguinity]

THEY KEEP COMING BACK IN TIME AND SHOOTING PEOPLE TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DYING. I JUST. IT IS SUCH A MESS.

And credit where it is due: it was Grrlpup who pointed out that the "progress" song lyric was ironic (the obvious things that I miss!), and that I should vid it that way. And also that I should go for broke on the ending. (She was, as she often is, dead right.)