Holy shit wow (<-- I thought you were entitled to my first response, which was exactly that!) I was saving this until I had time to really watch it, and it's really kind of amazingly done. I haven't seen the source so I don't know if it portrays the tragedy as tragedy on a grand scale, on a genocidal scale, as emphatically as you do, and not as the tragedy that they simply couldn't be together; he lost her, but she and her entire race lost everything (your use of external source makes me...suspect it doesn't, but perhaps this is unfair). As everyone has already said, the shift in focus on the lines "I felt the Lord begin to peel off all my skin" and everything after was really powerful and a lot sharper than I might have expected. The scrubbing and the lacing (and this section together with the ending shots with Pocahontas in full English dress, juxtaposed with those shots by the fire, make me think there's a ton going on here with the sexualization of "exotic" Native female bodies too?). Your use of external source was really effective to widen the perspective, to show the enormity of what was stolen. I will have to read your notes as well because there's a lot of stuff worth unpacking. Just, excellent vidding here.
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