| Pagoda – Death to Birth Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Most people who have watched the movie were not so impressed by how the main character Blake mumbled to himself throughout everything he did. Michael Pitt (the actor who played Blake) said that the film was 80% improvised and they only had a map. That shows great acting skills, because he truly conveyed Blake's emotions or the lack of them for that matter, in all of the scenes. We don't know what Blake was exactly thinking or if he was planning his death all along. We're supposed to interpret all of it from his apathetic behaviors. The film did a remarkable job bringing into motion how isolated an extremely depressed person feels. The film took me on a short journey inside Blake's mind, everything we saw was how he saw it. From his careless friends, and to his disregard to his world and all the people he worked with. We may not understand what happens in the film until Blake starts singing Death to Birth. In the context of the film, the song makes the most sense. Every bit that could come across as uninterpretable in the film pieced together when Blake sang. He sang every last bit of his heart out. Music was all he had at that point. He said what he didn't say and what we wanted him to say in front of all these people who didn't appear to notice how bad he needed help. The song | |
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