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10000 Endorsements, maybe not in quantity but in quality.
On a side note - I never know who listens to the music as most people never even mention it when you add it. I don't think that means they did not listen or did not like it ... it is easy to forget in some ways.
But I admit I hope some people do listen because MUSIC + STORY = AWESOME. Anyone who watches a movie has to understand how important music is to a story. Music sings to our soul - it touches us in a way nothing else can in some ways.
As a comment to everyone else - if an author posts some music, please consider listening to it - especially if they make a point of saying it is important (as sometimes we post music just for ambiance ... but in many cases it is critical to the overall setting of the scene). Often it is meant to help convey the mood of a story.
What a wonderful work you've done here jessb, perfect staging and music choice, very sad farewell and the idea of the corps in the boat take away by the water is worthy of the greatest medieval movies. Magnificent work!
Good music for this, too. I like how it's upbeat, despite sadness. I scrolled back up to the video a few times, and I see how it fits.
On to the end...
Tragic beauty. Your work leaves me speechless and in awe.
absolutely stunning pictures
No words were needed here to describe this haunting and heart-wrenching goodbye.
There is NO love greater than this: TRADING one's life for another....and now Sweet Fleur is gone so that Rathe might live....
Here is my objective(ist) philosophy on this matter:
I really and truly LOATHE that AWFUL word: "sacrifice"! It is NOT a good thing where I'm concerned.
To me, it means to give up, in general, a greater value for a lesser one or worse, none at all.
A "sacrifice", IMNSHO is a trade-down, NOT a trade up.
Far too many people constantly, casually and innocently MISuse that massively negative word without even realizing it.
To say that someone "sacrifices" their life for another is practically an insult to the one who dies....the one who gives up their life does so because they believe others are very highly valued to them, SO much so that they may be willing to "trade-up" their very lives for the sake of those others.
Soldiers in battle who throw themselves in death's way to save their teammates are a perfect example as to how very often the negative term "sacrifice" is totally and very tragically MISused.
Here, ever-so-sweet Fleur TRADED-UP her life for Rathe because she LOVED him so deeply, she would do anything in her power to stop him from dying, even if the cost was her very own life....
HOW can that possibly EVER be defined as a trade-down?? ^^
I'm very sorry for this little philosophical rant, Jess, but right now, I just had to get that off of my very tight chest. Please forgive me.
Endorsed. Thank you most kindly for this very poignant and moving chapter, Jess, and cheers, dear.