I adore this piece. Interpretation from all what I’ve read and seen is: Small community, living in the between-world of modern warfare and pagan old beliefs, choose to designate two specific people to have a child to prevent what they perceive is a coming cataclysm. The woman, married to another, obliges out of duty to the community. The child is loved, and she loves her husband, even if the child is not biologically his, and so does he. They believe the catastrophe has been averted. But it comes, and destroys he and she, sparing the boy who ‘miraculously’ is spared. Off to a very Christian orphanage. He holds on to the talisman- hair braid from his mother. He seems to retain the memory of his valley, his community that was lost. He is displaced and faces otherness from the other children, but still hangs on. I feel it speaks indirectly to the transition from pagan living to the christian regime. He recalls the lush past… and it was wiped out. Yet somehow, despite all, in that last shot he peruses the valley and it is yet still green, still as beautiful as it was before, different but unaffected by the change from paganism to christianity, as though such a shift meant nothing to the deep roots of the valley.
I haven't looked it up either. The towns people do believe a child will stop whatever is going on. But not from the married couple. The mother had to birth another man's child. After the valley was wiped out and the boy grew a bit he remembered enough to explain it to the nun. I love the way the song builds and builds til the very end when he finally is old enough to go back and look around. This is why I love Alt J. You never know what the music or accompanying story will be. The cinematography is always A list movie grade.. I'm so glad you like them, too
I have noticed a million little details. Like the threat was originally coming from deep iin the earth. Wr know it's because they are excating coal and that's the cause, but they dont seem to know that. The demise literally came out of the clear blue sky. There are a lot of other symbols, ironies, etc. But I think if you really enjoy them you should discover them over time by watching them.
That’s new to me Very cool Thx Pleader" is a "theatrical crescendo"that prominently features orchestral strings and Spanish guitar. Its lyrics are based on the plot of Richard Llewellyn's book How Green Was My Valley, about a small mining community in nineteenth-century Wales. The book's title is repeated in the song's refrain. It is structured as a hymn and features the boys' choir and the organ of Ely Cathedral, which were added to give a "church feeling" to the song.Unger-Hamilton described it as a "pastoral celebration of a time that's no longer, a time that's gone."
I think that in that small community everyone believed that the world would end soon, and only one couple had the courage to have a child, despite the imminent end. Disaster comes from the sky and the village is destroyed. Only the child survives and remembers how green his valley was... when his parents were still alive.
I adore this piece. Interpretation from all what I’ve read and seen is: Small community, living in the between-world of modern warfare and pagan old beliefs, choose to designate two specific people to have a child to prevent what they perceive is a coming cataclysm. The woman, married to another, obliges out of duty to the community. The child is loved, and she loves her husband, even if the child is not biologically his, and so does he. They believe the catastrophe has been averted. But it comes, and destroys he and she, sparing the boy who ‘miraculously’ is spared. Off to a very Christian orphanage. He holds on to the talisman- hair braid from his mother. He seems to retain the memory of his valley, his community that was lost. He is displaced and faces otherness from the other children, but still hangs on.
I feel it speaks indirectly to the transition from pagan living to the christian regime. He recalls the lush past… and it was wiped out. Yet somehow, despite all, in that last shot he peruses the valley and it is yet still green, still as beautiful as it was before, different but unaffected by the change from paganism to christianity, as though such a shift meant nothing to the deep roots of the valley.
I haven't looked it up either.
The towns people do believe a child will stop whatever is going on. But not from the married couple. The mother had to birth another man's child. After the valley was wiped out and the boy grew a bit he remembered enough to explain it to the nun. I love the way the song builds and builds til the very end when he finally is old enough to go back and look around.
This is why I love Alt J. You never know what the music or accompanying story will be. The cinematography is always A list movie grade..
I'm so glad you like them, too
I have noticed a million little details. Like the threat was originally coming from deep iin the earth. Wr know it's because they are excating coal and that's the cause, but they dont seem to know that. The demise literally came out of the clear blue sky. There are a lot of other symbols, ironies, etc. But I think if you really enjoy them you should discover them over time by watching them.
That’s new to me
Very cool
Thx
Pleader" is a "theatrical crescendo"that prominently features orchestral strings and Spanish guitar. Its lyrics are based on the plot of Richard Llewellyn's book How Green Was My Valley, about a small mining community in nineteenth-century Wales. The book's title is repeated in the song's refrain. It is structured as a hymn and features the boys' choir and the organ of Ely Cathedral, which were added to give a "church feeling" to the song.Unger-Hamilton described it as a "pastoral celebration of a time that's no longer, a time that's gone."
I think that in that small community everyone believed that the world would end soon, and only one couple had the courage to have a child, despite the imminent end. Disaster comes from the sky and the village is destroyed. Only the child survives and remembers how green his valley was... when his parents were still alive.
'enjoyed ty
You should check out Alt-J Breezeblocks next. Really nice song and a very thought-provoking video
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