Par Ali Grutchfield
Coughing Up Flowers is a cathartic music video written by Trinity Rose and directed by Lucas J. Takano. Rose’s song illustrates the emotional toll that falling in love can have, especially as a young person trying to navigate the ever-changing world. The true strength of this music video stems from the authenticity with which Rose and Takano depict the hopelessness and vulnerability she feels.
It is often easy to diminish the feelings and challenges young men and women face because they lack life experience. Cependant, this video suggests that it’s their lack of experience that exacerbates fear and loneliness. Rose is even more lost because she’s never been through love or heartbreak before, as the song states, she “doesn’t know what’s fair enough.” The song is tragically relatable because of how honest Rose is in recognizing the damage that’s done when she forces herself into vulnerable positions. She candidly acknowledges that one can never truly tell how someone else feels. Donc, she has to silently struggle and recognize that the boy could easily not feel the same way and “just slip away.”
Although love is not something easily put into words, Rose and Takano aptly depict the emotional intensity of one’s first love. As the music video progresses, Rose shows how her mental turmoil is manifesting itself as suffocation and scarring. This symbolically highlights the true gravity of experiences during her childhood and adolescence that she was irreparably changed by.
Global, je donnerais Coughing Up Flowers une 4.5/5 étoiles
Ali Grutchfield est un junior poursuivant la production cinématographique et télévisuelle au Savannah College of Art and Design. Elle passe son temps à produire du contenu visuel et écrit pour District, la plateforme d'information en ligne de l'école, être président du ciné-club de la SCAD, production et montage de films d'étudiants, lire des romans policiers, et boire du café avec son chat, Jingle.
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