Bill Viola
The Lovers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfnqQmmttxE&feature=related
This video is actually beautiful. Once I gave it a chance and more thought and consideration than the ol' "It's just people getting wet with water". I found deeper meaning within the video. This actually isn't the whole video piece but more of a segment form it. I chose to show this because it spoke the most to me at least. This segment is called "The Lovers" at first watch you see a couple or just a man and a woman standing. Then water comes onto the shot you immediately see the couple reach out for each other. To me this video shows the strength of the couple and even their struggle. The water could be a metaphor for just life and all of it's struggle. It's really powerful that after all the water all the pain/struggling that they are enduring at that moment you see them disappear in the water only to come out of the water kissing each other looking stronger than they looked before they were even wet.
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