Love comes in many different forms, and in my humble opinion, Tango, is one of the expressions of love.
This dance has the intensity, the intense chemistry between two bodies, synchronizing with each others moves, to unite as one. It was said that God created the image of himself in two genders – men and women. By uniting in dance, we are once again recreated in God’s ideal image. How beautiful can that be?
Just observe their dance, observe their paradoxes, of love and hate – push and pull – looking left and right – in suspense – in fear – but with deep passion – deep passionate love. Notice the outstanding beauty of the lady dancer, as her male counterpart swings her into the movements he wants her to portray, like the frame of a painting, he acts as the backdrop – while, she stuns the audiences with her grace and eloquence. In tango, the lady is the main star of the show, while her man, is almost invisible, notice how he leads her forward into the audience, into the center of attention, into the center of desire. Observe how she slides onto him for support, for assurance – observe how she tries to walk away, while he pushes her back into his arms.
Listen, to the language of love they are trying to speak. Listen, and have faith.
Amazing and heart felt, Wong Fu Productions addresses the 5 Loves. The main actor explains tenderly to his girlfriend (which is strange because I rarely hear guys speaking about their feelings so eloquently) to her question on the five girls who were before her, by describing them as “Who, What, Where, Why and Whom.”
This video reaffirms my faith in love, and never to give up believing that love exists.
It is not an illusion, or just a feeling… it is what we are made of!
I found the part on his fifth love, tragic. It was a love, that never got a chance to love, because it did not manifest itself, because she had a terminal illness, and her life will end before she got a chance to love. This is the kind of love, that we might not experience, because we do not know when will life claims us, before we have a chance, to even try. It is philosophical to think about it, but better now than never I guess. You have not really lived, untill you love someone deeply….
From personal experience, I am quite sad to admit, that most people do not understand love for what it is in the modern world of materialism. Love is something you can’t chase, or achieve, or score points in. Love is not a game, it is not a play hard to get, or push pull effect. Love is not something, that is reasoned with, or that it is logical. Love is definitely not practical, practical love is akin to prostitution. Love is, what it is, love. It is a myriad of experiences, of passions, of emotions, and of a faith – in the future and the beauty it brings.
Love is a game that two people can win – Eva Gabor
Writing a novel is like stripping naked for the world to see, and it is a extremely vulnerable feeling. It takes courage to do, but of course, we try to layer it with fiction.
Yakuza Moon is one of the novels that made me cry, because it is so revealing, the author’s bare tattooed flesh in the cold, on every bookshelf. It is chilling.
I do fear judgement, just like every writer out there. I fear that people will not accept my ideas or who I am. I do hold all these fears close to my heart, and I am facing them daily. While grinding away.. the dreaded word count of 80 000.
There is nothing glorifying about pain. There is no redemption, when decisions are made. There is no turning back, once it is executed. Once published, it is a permanent mark forever, like a tattoo, like a food package labeling, this time, on the author of the finished writing product.
Step up Revolution (2012) is a well made dance movie with amazing choreography, contemporary a mercian dance moves and an underlying theme – that dance is a unspoken universal language which can be used to communicate to the public and gain the support of the masses. Dance, as we know it, is just, well, some motions on the body moving to some rhythm or beat. In this movie, they have elevated dance as a communication device – using modern technology such as YouTube, to gain popularity and support for their message.
This means that these flash mobbers – or political villgenttes, can use these skills for the good of the masses, or their own individual selfish egotistical needs. Initially, they wanted to gain over 10 million hits on YouTube to be qualified to win a grand prize of $10 million dollars. For these youngsters working as waiters in the day, this means a new start to their lives – money to go to college, to move to other cities, to travel. As flash mobbers, they risk getting arrested for public disturbance or injury from dancing on dangerously on cars or cargo containers. However, they are willing to risk it all for the one best shot at the grand prize.
After trying several attempts and falling short of first place on Youtube (almost losing to a singing cat), they decide to use dance as a protest against destroying their neighborhood – slums to be converted to luxury skyscrapers. The main character – Emily, daughter of the Anderson property group, falls in love with one of the lead male dancers, who encourages her to “break the rules” and be free of her father’s control. Naturally, as she is the sole heir to the property empire, her father is against her desire to pursue a dance career and join him in his mega property redevelopment venture. In defiance to his wishes, she joins the flash mobbers as lead dancer to protest against her father’s property development plans.
This conflict leads to the question – where does her loyalty lies? With her father or new lover?
This movie is about the transformation of Emily – the narrative – to achieve her own independence, free of her father’s control. She loves how life is like in the slums; dancing in a local latin club, taking a river ride down in a old motor boat, their lives free of society expectations and rules to upkeep. In her luxurious penthouse overlooking Miami beach, with the latest iPhone deck and silver Macbook for company, she ponders if her life has been an illusion of greed and overindulgence.
Synopsis
An amazing production based on a story on a ballerina who has to embrace her fragility and corruption – by acting as both the white swan (who needs a lover to release her from a swan’s body), and the black swan (who steals her lover away).
In her everyday life, she behaves as a dutiful daughter who listens to her mother like a virginal child. Her evil twin kept hidden in the recesses of her unconsciousness, waiting for the chance to release itself.
Her strive for extreme perfectionism leads to her unwillingness to let go of her duality – for it contains pure lust and corruption.
After a night of drinks, her sultry twin betrays her, and she becomes a seductress – and her nemesis is born.
Towards the end, the black swan kills her – and releases itself – and perfection is achieved.
Reflection
On reflection, the inner struggles of our everyday lives is representative of the struggle she faces as the white and black swan. We have our angels and demons, our lust and passions, for good or evil. This duality is what makes this world complete. For without duality, there will not be black or white.
We constantly fight to retain our goodness and forsake our evil intentions. However, there is no such perfection – for good and evil lies within the same person. Likewise, an evil person will try to kill all the goodness in his soul to become truly evil – only to realise that he has compassion in his heart.
Personally, I struggle daily with my demons. The ability to feel deeply for others can be a blessing and curse. Sometimes its better not to know what lies in the deep end of the spectrum, for once contamination sets in – it is irreversible. I would rather be innocent and kind, but the world is not kind to the good hearted. And to win – is to be truly heartless.
Hence, like the character in the story, I have an evil twin. As much as I try to suppress it inside, it desires to be released, or she haunts my dreams and fills my hands with blood. In the most unexpected moments, she takes over my body and transcends into who I am.
Why hold yourself back, when you are meant what you are meant to be?
Here is my interpretation of this song, an intriguing and dark song with many underlying meanings and messages it is trying to convey to the unaware listener.
“Kiss From A Rose”
There used to be a graying tower alone on the sea.
You became the light on the dark side of me.
There is a lonely lighthouse in the middle of the sea (him), and she “became” the light of his lighthouse that is on the dark side of him (implying he is the dark shadow of the lighthouse itself).
Him = Lighthouse Her = Light on the Lighthouse
Love remained a drug that’s the high and not the pill.
He is deeply obsessed with the “light” which he admits it is his “love” and brings him a “high”.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and
The light that you shine can be seen.
When it snows, the light (her) on the lighthouse allows the lighthouse (him) to be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray.
This is a very contrasting statement “rose on the gray”.
Rose = Bright red and vibrant
Grey = Dull and boring
“Rose on Grey”
= She is the brightness of his dull grey boring life.
= She is a red blossoming flower that lights up his world of grey Ooh,
The more I get of you,
The stranger it feels, yeah.
Somehow, this has signs of something obsessively wrong or strange/unacceptable. It might be a forbidden love, akin to taboo love like necrophilia or incest, or racial differences in this context. The contrast of “grey” (him) and “rose” (her) is the taboo here. How can a grey lighthouse end up with a rose?
And now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the gray.
She is a blossoming rose, and he is a gray gloomy (old/boring) man, and she lights up his life with her presence and prospect of procreation.
…But is it possible for them to have a happy ever after when they are two worlds apart?
There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
You remain, My power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
MY POWER, MY PLEASURE, MY PAIN! These are the three strongest words in his whole song that he is literally shouting it out loud for the world to hear. This is the whole meaning of this song, the main central theme. She is the center of his life, his “light on the dark side of me”, his power, his pleasure and his pain. It is a love that is forbidden yet obsessive, twisted with pleasure and pain, power and helplessness. There is so much contrast in his love for her, that he is becoming addicted (in the next verse).
To me you’re like a growing addiction that I can’t deny.
Won’t you tell me is that healthy, baby
He finally admits it – he is addicted to this forbidden yet obsessive love spell this rose has cast on him.
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Added Review in 2015
Kiss from a Rose is Literature
This post on Kiss from a Rose Meaning is the top searched on my blog for years running. Revisiting it now in 2015, the song lyrics is a work of literature. The words in the lyrics of this songs are metaphors for different things. When you start to break down the metaphors (Light, Grey, Rose) to different symbolic meanings, you can decipher the song to your own interpretation.
Love = Pain (Masochistic Love)
We can all relate to this song, especially when you had been obsessively in love with someone you can’t be with. That is why we can’t help, but listen to this song over and over again. It has a calming effect on the listener. It is also verging on the point of masochism. The overall meaning of this song is about masochistic love.
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What do you think about this interpretation? Share your views in the comments below.
