Gift for eruthros by frayadjacent (Whale Rider)

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Title of vid: Sons and Daughters
Recipient: eruthros
Vidder: frayadjacent
Fandom: Whale Rider (2002)
Music: Sons and Daughters by The Decemberists
Summary: Ensemble vid about the awesome people of Whale Rider, with an emphasis on Pai. Click on CC to enable/get rid of subtitles!
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Signed length: 02:56

Link to signed vid post.

Lyrics
When we arrive
Sons and daughters
We'll make our homes on the water
We'll build our walls aluminum
We'll fill our lives with cinnamon now

These currents pull us across the border
Steady your boats
Arms to shoulder
Till tides are pulled
Hold our grounds
Making this cold harbor now home

Take up your arm
Sons and daughters
We will arise from the bunkers
By land, by sea, by dirigible
We'll leave our tracks untraceable now

When arrive
Sons and daughters
We'll make our lives on the water
We'll build our walls aluminum
We'll fill our mouths cinnamon

[Repeat: x20]
Here all the bombs fade away

Comments

[eruthros]

Oh this is so lovely! Thank you so much, anon vidder, it totally made me tear up a little at the end. You did such a great job of distilling the family and generational stuff and how awesome everyone is in their own way. <3<3<3

[rthstewart]

This is a beautiful use of music and film. A gorgeous to watch again and again.

[thingswithwings]

awwww, this is so sweet! <3 I love it! All the family feels.

[cupidsbow]

Glorious and uplifting!

[scribe]

This is just lovely!

[beatrice_otter]

It's a wonderful movie, and you did an excellent job of fitting it to music.

[cofax7]

oh, that's just lovely

[ladysorka]

Oh, this is absolutely lovely.

[laurashapiro]

My heart grew three sizes! Beautiful vid, great song, so warm and fuzzy and pretty and I am flailing a bit now.

[thuviaptarth]

This is just full of happiness.

[mresundance]

This is beautiful! This movie is definitely one of the movies of my heart and you absolutely nailed a lot of the elements which make the film so powerful. I got teary at the end. Just gorgeous!

[izzy]

oh, this is so wonderful! it makes me all sniffly in the best way, just like the movie does. thanks for this. <3

[aris_tgd]

This is just so joyful and triumphant. Love it.

[sophinisba]

Oh, I love this!

[leanwellback]

This is beautiful, I love it. I wouldn't have thought of using this song for a vid, but it works so brilliantly with the source. The bit where Pai approaches the whale and climbs up matched to the "here all the bombs..." refrain gave me chills. Gorgeous!

[klia]

I adore WR, and this vid was just so heartfelt and beautifully done. Thank you so much! ♥

[lithiumdoll]

So lovely! Wonderfully vidded <3

[par_avion]

Family-team ♥ The timing at the end is lovely, and builds. from the point she sits on the whale at the guitar sting at 2:17.

[saba1789]

This was so great and again I really wanna watch this movie now! :D

[ghost_lingering]

<3<3 This definitely made me tear up a bit at the end. God I love Whale Rider.

[isis]

This was truly lovely. What a great sense of community you show! I especially liked the working of the music with the rowing and the dancing.

[carmarthen]

This is beautiful, and a great choice of music! I feel like I need to rewatch the movie now...

[littleheaven]

Lovely, touching, and great music. I got goosies :o)

Sons and Daughters

[yourlibrarian]

What a lovely vid -- it really captured the spirit of the film.

[semielliptical]

Beautiful!! I couldn't look away for a moment.