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About this video essay:
An analysis of Celine Song's Past Lives, and how it subverts the audience's expectations by turning the tropes of the romantic genre into a thoughtful rumination on the weight of time, the vague grief of lost potentiality, and the search for meaning.

Content:
00:00 Introduction
01:07 A Brief Overview
01:59 A Different Kind of Love Story
04:36 The Vague Grief of Lost Potentiality
06:13 Fixed in Time, Fluid in the Mind
08:40 A Search for Meaning
10:40 Peaceful Resignation
12:54 An Adult Understanding
14:10 The Real Love Story?

Music:
By the Coast - Part of Me
Christopher Dennis Coleman - Vesper
Shawn Williams - Illuminate
I Live Here - September

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