yosb:
when something awful happens to you by your own hand or the hand of another, its human nature to cling to that wrong. you cage it in your mind. every time you play it in your head, youre poking the animal in that cage over and over again
forgiveness is opening that cage door
forgiveness is finding that you were the one in the cage the whole time
I was really confused/kind of bored by this video at first (although it is strangely intriguing), but after reading this description of the concept, it became kind of beautiful:
“In Sia’s own words, "these two warring ‘Sia’ self states.” The video plays with Shia, representing adulthood and reason, and Maddie, as wild and at times vicious as a child or animal. Maddie plays the subconscious, our imagination, capable of attacking without cause, but also falling asleep in innocence. Shia seems wiser, but he can’t control Maddie… and neither can he leave the cage of his own limits. The video makes us question who we like or hate more: reasoning or wild subconscious. And at the end, our dreams are trying to tug us free, but reason just can’t get out."
