Thursday, March 25, 2010
I Am With You (All My Loving, Paul McCartney)
"My love. We are already together."
- Isabella, Ab Aeterno
I loved the tender moment in Ab Aeterno between Isabella and Richard, facilitated by Hurley. Here's Isabella, to the tune of the Beatles' All My Loving.
I Am With You
Close your eyes now, Ricardo.
I know this is hard, so
It’s best if you hear and don’t see.
It was my time to leave,
And you don’t need to grieve,
For Ricardo, you’ll always have me.
Let this man be our buffer.
You don’t have to suffer.
I hope that you won’t disagree.
It was my time to leave,
And you don’t need to grieve,
For Ricardo, you’ll always have me.
I am with you. I was with you then.
I am with you. Take my cross again.
Close your eyes now, Ricardo.
I know this is hard, so
It’s best if you hear and don’t see.
It was my time to leave,
And you don’t need to grieve,
For Ricardo, you’ll always have me.
I am with you. I was with you then.
I am with you. Take my cross again.
I am with you. I am here with you.
I am with you. Take my cross again.
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4 comments:
Nice. :-) I really liked that they decided to give Richard such an epic love story for his back-story -- not at all what I was expecting!
It's a really lovely moment when he puts Isabella's cross around his neck again. It seems so momentous in terms of his decision to rest in her forgiveness and love, and to embrace the right way again...though the fact that such a way is symbolized by a cross also indicates, I think, that Richard's suffering is still not over. But I think it also indicates that his suffering (both what he's gone through and what he may yet go through) is redemptive.
Thanks! I know, I definitely wasn't expecting an epic love story either. Really liked that element of it.
It really does seem like powerful redemptive symbolism - though I'm afraid you're right about the suffering too. I suppose that's something none of them will be able to avoid at this point...
Yes...D. keeps saying it's possible that every single character could die on-island, if it turns out that Sideways world is the future (or an alternate reality). I know what he means, but I sort of shudder to consider the possibility that we could lose everybody before this thing's over!
Yes, that is quite a dreadful thought!
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