Jump Into the River

Kid Sam - We're Mostly Made of Water (Dir. Sherwin Akbarzadeh) from Sherwin Akbarzadeh on Vimeo.

The reason I am drawn to this video is because it depicts the magic of everyday life. As the viewer, you are watching these two human beings aimlessly walking through what seems like a common neighborhood. You start to guess when and if they will cross paths and the suspense you create for yourself is very intriguing, at least it was for me. When finally, you see on either side of the split screen, a common gray house, you start to feel excited for what comes next, where is the music video magic of two humans meeting on the sidewalk and falling in love? You have been waiting for this moment for a whole two minutes. And finally, they simply pass each other. Not a glance, not a pause, just each one keeping to their side of the sidewalk. Wow. This happens everyday and yet, without the music, without the split screen, without the view from both sides of the pathway, no one notices the magic, the mystic, the pure innocence of human beings sharing a space on the planet. Why does it take music for some people to realize how truly moving and beautiful ALL aspects and moments in life are? Maybe that is why music is such a powerful tool for living. We cope through music, celebrate through music, embrace through music, and simply live with music in our ears constantly. You can't walk ten steps on this campus without seeing someone with some sort of MP3 player streaming their personal soundtrack for the day into their ears. We have become a society of hopefuls, wishing our lives were like the movies in that, we need music, we need "movie moments". But a primary goal of movies has always been to recreate true life, to depict how "real" people, real humans live their lives. When did the shift happen when the real people wish their lives were more like the ones in the movies?