Sigur Ros- Glosoli

It has been made clear to me that I need to be watching more music videos like Sigur Ros’ videos because I am a huge fan of the ones we watch in class. I already blogged on Hoppipolla and now  its time to talk about Glosoli.

This video was so astatically pleasing, and even though I could not understand the words, I was moved. I suppose that sort of goes back to the idea that silence can speak louder and have more influence than words. I mean there’s this boy, who without even saying anything, got all these other kids to trust in him and take the jump.

I thought the parallelism to Jesus was really cool. It’s not easy to include it subtly and still have the same effect. I would say it was well accomplished in this music video. All of the other children follow the main child off of a cliff, trusting that there is something more out there than what they know.

I remember talking about post-modernism and living  in the moment when we watched the video. Post-modernism involves focusing on the moment, not knowing if there is really anything deeper to focus on. I’m not sure if Leeper said that video is post-modernistic or not, but I don’t actually believe it to be post-modernistic at all. In fact, I think the opposite. When those kids jump, it’s not because they are “living in the moment” but its because they know that there is more out there. That is what is worth jump.

That’s what’s worth a leap of faith