Gift for Isagel by Destina (Spy Game)

[fv_poster]

Title of vid: Resolution Road
Recipient: Isagel
Vidder: Destina
Fandom: Spy Game (2001)
Music: Resolution Road by Karine Polwart
Summary: Who looks like you do?
Content notes: I prefer not to give content notes (viewer proceeds at their own risk: could be anything)
Signed length: 03:25
Signed URL:

See the vid here.

Lyrics
Resolution road

Who’s your friend and who’s your foe?

How do you tell the one from the other?

Who’s on the inside, who’s undercover?

Who looks like you do?

Resolution road

Round and round and round we go

Who makes the circle and who’s in the middle?

Who talks in reasons and who talks in riddles?

Who looks like you do?



CHORUS

Don’t speak without thinking

Don’t sleep with a stranger when you’re drinking

And don’t jump in a ship when it’s sinking



Resolution road

Learn to speak your heart in code

Try to embody the laws of encryption

And try to defy all the laws of description

Who looks like you do?



Resolution road

Buy a ticket for the show

Who talks in riddles, who talks in reasons?

What kind of endings do you believe in?

Who looks like you do?



CHORUS X 2



Resolution road

Who’s your friend and who’s your foe?

How do you tell the one from the other?

Who’s on the inside, who’s undercover?

Who’ll be your Lazarus? Who’ll be your lover?

Who looks like you do?

Who looks like you do?

Who looks like you do?



Words and Music: Karine Polwart (Bay Songs Ltd)

Comments

[swizzlespoon]

Returning to note that this is one of my absolute favorite vids of this year of Festivids (I've not quite seen all of them yet, but have seen most of them) and not merely because I love the source and thought I might never see a vid for it.

I hadn't thought this was a source that could be vidded, really, for the same reasons that it's among my favorite movies about spies and spycraft: because so much of the action involves meetings and faxes and rather mundane things to look at. Not the flashy stuff of most spy movies.

The song is just absolutely perfect for this movie and these characters. I love so many moments, some that others have noted in comments far better than I could. I love that even though it's a vid about two men, you also show us a lot of the other people in the movie as well and tell the story so well in such a short span of time.

Seriously great work here. Yay! Happy flailing from a person who rarely flails!

[destina]

Thank you so much for watching, and commenting, AND coming back to leave this amazing follow-up feedback. I had the same misgivings about vidding the movie, because so much of the "action" is in conversations. But the more I listened to the song, the more I was sure it could be made to work. (And I was lucky to have excellent betas who helped.) I am so thrilled that this caused some happy flailing! :D