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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Premiered Sep 19, 2019 ^^
Rating : 4.942 (659/44,481 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T21:23:33.160117Z
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I love the parallels between this video and Part 3 (Gloria). Both Junior and Gloria are being shown kicking the door in and rushing to the car and carrying their loved ones to save them from a head injury. Also the fact, that they both end up leaving the person they wanted to save in the car, because of the police arriving, running away to the field to save themselves. Beautiful and creative way to end the amazing story of the Sparks family tree.
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I love how deeply human these characters are. The Lumineers didn't just paint these 'addicts' as heartless monsters not worthy of empathy, but as flawed yet believable people like you and me.
In Gloria, despite the addiction that is quickly consuming her whole being...we still see the love she has for baby Jimmy...the way Gloria looks at him as she holds him...the way she reaches for him when she gets home from the hospital... We also see how much love her husband has for her despite her alcoholism.
Fast forward and Jimmy clearly loves his son...despite Jimmy's bad behaviour, he worked to support Junior, he stuck around when Bonnie left...he did his best despite addiction creeping in on him bit by bit as the years went on (starting with the gambling to pay for medical care for Junior...then the alcohol...the drugs...associating with dangerous people...)...he still managed to hold it together long enough for Junior to reach adulthood. Finally in Salt and the Sea, we see Jimmy tell his son to run as the police close in...despite his potentially fatal head wound that needs medical attention he sends Junior off (hopefully to freedom)...
In Leader of the Landslide, Junior looks frustrated and completely over the kinds of people his father associates with...but in April and Salt and the Sea we see that Junior loves his Dad and maybe believes that if he steals the money, pays off the debts then maybe this brush with death will finally be enough to straighten Jimmy out...
...sadly there's no happy ending...but real life isn't a Disney movie...
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Wow I almost cried when I saw him kick the door down- no matter how hard junior seems to try, he canât break the cycle, in Gloria we see the door get kicked down twice, and now heâs doing the same thing for the same reason- to save someone who hurt him, and who he never should have came back to. So impressed!
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@aisling3952
4 years ago
damn they really love kicking that door
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