Perfection as a Movie: The Brilliant God Help the Girl
In this new era of the internet the world has been gripped by the abundance of accessible creativity. Now more than ever it is easier for artists to have access to their outlets. And in this hodgepodge of works, creators are at battle with themselves and others to build a distinct yet appealing voice. One musician, Stuart Murdoch, launched the project God Help the Girl to depict the struggles in finding one’s individuality. The film revolves around tortured musician Eve Carmichael, portrayed by Emily Browning, and her music and worldviews as they develop with her band and within herself. Although it doesn’t get nearly as much recognition as it should, God Help the Girl is the most beautiful …show more content…
The compositions of God Help the Girl use the lyrics and melodies to transcend the meaning of the typical song, a perfect example of this is “Musician, Please Take Heed.” This masterpiece spans across Eve’s several day long spiral out of control, ending up with her in the hospital again. The song, being as intricate as it is beautiful, can be broken into three parts corresponding with her endeavor and the three verses: her fear, her mania, and her coping. The lyrics undergo multiple effortless transitions between the parts, in the crossing from her fear to her mania Eve sings, “I’ll kick this mood off with a change of scene” and the music and lyrics proceed to speed up in tempo. The song is comprised of adept metaphors and rhymes such as “I string the words together softly, I lay my love upon you with each line. A gift of improvising removes me from revising. I made a daisy-chain from phrase verse and punctuation”, a fragment of the song in which Eve apostrophizes a dear friend in a letter. Other songs are not made to be nearly as big of a spectacle as “Musician, Please Take Heed”, yet still astonish and charm viewers. The piece “Perfection as a Hipster” is merely played in the background between Eve and one of her adventures. But still, the song manages to display the emotion and atmosphere of the scene with the careful lyrics, “Spend every second day just dreaming how the first ought to be. My dream was realized but I was sleeping.” Aside from the lyrics, “Perfection as a Hipster” concisely captures the intense moments with upbeat drum fills and harmonies between Browning and vocalist Neil
In this new era of the internet the world has been gripped by the abundance of accessible creativity. Now more than ever it is easier for artists to have access to their outlets. And in this hodgepodge of works, creators are at battle with themselves and others to build a distinct yet appealing voice. One musician, Stuart Murdoch, launched the project God Help the Girl to depict the struggles in finding one’s individuality. The film revolves around tortured musician Eve Carmichael, portrayed by Emily Browning, and her music and worldviews as they develop with her band and within herself. Although it doesn’t get nearly as much recognition as it should, God Help the Girl is the most beautiful …show more content…
The compositions of God Help the Girl use the lyrics and melodies to transcend the meaning of the typical song, a perfect example of this is “Musician, Please Take Heed.” This masterpiece spans across Eve’s several day long spiral out of control, ending up with her in the hospital again. The song, being as intricate as it is beautiful, can be broken into three parts corresponding with her endeavor and the three verses: her fear, her mania, and her coping. The lyrics undergo multiple effortless transitions between the parts, in the crossing from her fear to her mania Eve sings, “I’ll kick this mood off with a change of scene” and the music and lyrics proceed to speed up in tempo. The song is comprised of adept metaphors and rhymes such as “I string the words together softly, I lay my love upon you with each line. A gift of improvising removes me from revising. I made a daisy-chain from phrase verse and punctuation”, a fragment of the song in which Eve apostrophizes a dear friend in a letter. Other songs are not made to be nearly as big of a spectacle as “Musician, Please Take Heed”, yet still astonish and charm viewers. The piece “Perfection as a Hipster” is merely played in the background between Eve and one of her adventures. But still, the song manages to display the emotion and atmosphere of the scene with the careful lyrics, “Spend every second day just dreaming how the first ought to be. My dream was realized but I was sleeping.” Aside from the lyrics, “Perfection as a Hipster” concisely captures the intense moments with upbeat drum fills and harmonies between Browning and vocalist Neil