"You're sure there's a cure," The real solution is always the hardest path. We run the same behavior patterns over and over again and expect ing us deeper and to be happy, but "it" keeps piling ontop of us, buriying us deeper and deeper, but it's not going to stop.
No it's not going to stop until you wise up." A friend of mine is fond of saying that the definition of insanity is doing something the same way multiple times and expecting different results. "But now you know it's not going to stop. Things, outside influences, accomplishments, wants, needs, none of it makes one happier. "You got what you want, but you can hardly stand it." Ain't that the rub. This is a case where when the singer says "you" she truly means the listener. By playing the pronoun game Mann draws us into the song because we automatically transfer our situation onto the the character of the song.
The lyrics start out "It's not what you thought when you first began it." The easy interperetation is that "it" is life, but I think the smarter interperetation is 'situation as life.' By this I mean that none of us have any real expectations for life until we have something to lose, or gain. As you can tell, the characters of the ensemble cast are out of sorts just before the third act happens and all hell breaks loose. Magnolia is pretty overtly split up into three acts, with this song as the closer to the second act. The video posted above is not the music video for the song, well I guess it is, but it also takes place in the movie. (Also nominated that year was "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.)ĭirector Paul Thomas Anderson is known to have been listening to Aimee Mann's music a lot during the writng of the script for Magnolia and even borrowing character ideas and lyrics as lines of dialouge.He also made it a point to integrate the music with the movie. One of them, "Save Me" was nominated for the Acadamy Award for Best Original Song, only to lose to the Phil Collins song "You'll Be In My Heart" from Tarzan. The soundtrack includes nine songs from singer/songwriter Aimee Mann.
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If you have not seen this movie you need to. That is the theme from the movie Magnolia, that we may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. " Wise Up" by Aimee Mann from Music from the motion picture Magnolia Two art forms coming together and making a masterpiece.We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us. But put it in the context of the film, and it's pure music & movie magic. Then again, isn't that sound advice for anyone?Ī beautiful song to listen to on it's own, extremely relatable to anyone. All the characters in the film need to give up one way or another-give up their pride, give up their walls, give up their lies, give up misplaced love. In this song, it's one of the cases where giving up is the optimistic, not pessimistic, thing to do. give up." The youngest character with the most innocence and naivete is actually the one that knows the answers. It is very telling, for example, that they pan on the young quiz kid during the final lyric: "So just. When watching the film, pay attention to what character is singing what lyric: it shows the characters purpose and motive. General CommentThis song is beautiful out of context, and even more meaningful embedded in the text of the film "Magnolia." In the film, it plays a part much like the chorus in a great Greek tragic play.
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