I wish I was strong enough to lift not one but both of us
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Taylor Swift music videos + water
Since its beginnings, cinema has recognised that water can visually give matter and meaning to human desires, dreams and secrets, eliciting suspense and fear. Using different aesthetical and technical strategies, contemporary cinema shows immersed and drowning bodies to represent and express intimacy and protection, suspense and fear, obsession and depression, state of shock, past or infancy trauma, hallucinations and nightmares, etc. — Adriano D’Aloia (Film in Depth. Water and Immersivity in the Contemporary Film Experience, 2012)
Water has been indispensable for humanity throughout its history and indeed the origin of life on Earth. Therefore it is unsurprising that water has important and varied symbolic meanings. Water represents creation and destruction, life and death, birth and rebirth, chaos and order, and pollution and purification. — Mi-yeon Eom (Water: A Symbol of Potential, 2014)
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