The Hours- See The Light
All right. I have to post this even though I linked to it before. As mentioned a collaboration between Tony Kaye and Damien Hirst, starring Sienna Miller. Everyone is hating on it- I LOVE it.
For one thing… re: Damien Hirst, I love skulls… especially diamond ones. sorry- throw me under the DJ booth if you must.
Maybe the video is resonating to me because Sienna plays this mess of a crazy girl. Sienna always does well with playing the hot mess of a crazy girl. In a weird twisted way it’s an inspiring video. It’s a video to watch/hear when you’re laying around feeling like you’re life is spiraling out of control or you feel trapped- and the monologue is just going through your head. Being trapped in a glass case?!? … and a glass HANDBAG case at that! I mean genius. Running around scared and confused (maybe not even literally but that feeling of being lost). She takes the anxiety attack monologue right out of your brain… with The Hours playing in the background (much as you would play such a song when you feel helpless to give you some hope). Do you see the light? Sometimes a song has to take you there…
“Jesus I’m not supposed to do this. I’m not that person. I don’t come from that family. I don’t have any reason to behave the way I do and I don’t fucking understand how to get out of this…I just don’t know where it is… it’s so dark… this feels like the safest place to me right now…
I just can’t live with this feeling-like this. I don’t know when… how will I ever… having done the things I’ve done, been to the places I’ve been to… how will I ever be a normal person? I don’t know where it comes from and I don’t know how to control that feeling… The drugs quiet the war. The drugs you give me will quiet the war… but it wont stop the war.
Break open my head then… fix it. I just feel panicked and sick and full of dread. It’s about time I face the truth. Somewhere within all of the darkness there is a light and I need to find it…”
- Sienna Miller’s monologue in The Hours video
Also… the dead cows nailed to the wall is kind of rad. ok. i know grotesque. Throw it under the dj booth as well… annddd now I want to smoke a cigarette.
the end.
