right in two vid rec

[kiki_miserychic]

People in fandom tend to forget that there's a person behind the anon submitted vids. They think it's an excuse for them to rude about a vid because their friend's name isn't on it.

VID REC:
Right in Two (Supernatural plus additional source footage) - I'm not seeing the vid the way that a lot of people are. I see it as a genuinely thoughtful and thought out vid.

I read it as the angels come down to earth (Castiel mainly for the vid), looking down on the human "mud monkeys" as lower beings. The news clips seem to come from human events that show the worst of human behavior, like race riots, deaths during civil unrest, riots rising from rallies, racial tension from gang rape, protests turning violent, and police shootings. Castiel takes this all in from the world that's all around him, noted by the tv. The use of the sequence of Dean's death in the 2:20s and the eye zoom makes me think the vidder is implying that it's like hell on earth.

Castiel figures that God is in heaven and has given up on the earth on the awful creation, so Castiel gives into the human nature of the vessel. Castiel and other angels become so influenced by the world around them that they seemingly participate in the reenacting out of the events, the stink of humans and earth having taught them racially modivated violence.

Concept-wise, it's like the vidder is saying that people are taught by the media to see people that are racially different as the "bad guy."

I don't know if this is the intent behind the vid or not. It's my interpretation of the vid, which I'm not going to try and say is the meaning. It's one person's opinion.

Comments

[chaila.livejournal.com]

This is a really intriguing interpretation! And I agree with your opinion that some of the reaction to the vid seems to have been influenced by the fact that the vidder is anonymous and therefore apparently gets no benefit of the doubt whatsoever. Otherwise I think it'd probably have been hailed as, at the very least, very thought-provoking. :/

*uses icon, runs away* :)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I don't think my interpretation of the vid is what the vidder was going for though. I usually don't read vids the way they were intended, lol.

I think if there were a vidder named, there would at least be more consideration in the way things being said.

You have been assimilated into the CVM! No need to run away. :)

[chaila.livejournal.com]

I think maybe it just takes some growing into. :)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

:) I love seeing it!