Kink Bingo fill: Bronson vid for prompt: caged/confined

[theleaveswant]

Title: Before I Knew
Music: "Before I Knew" by Basia Bulat
Length: 1:22
Video source(s): Bronson (2008)
Character(s): Michael Peterson aka Charlie Bronson
Kink(s): caged/confined
Summary: Charlie <3s Prison
Notes: Brief violence (very minimal given the source material; basically I cut around all the punching and beating with batons and this is what was left over); no other standard content notes apply. Edit 25/06/11: new version posted, fixed some transitions I wasn't happy with before. Concrit is still appreciated.

16MB .wmv file: Download (I can upload other/more compressed formats on request)

[pre-song dialogue:
voice of warden (off-screen): What is it you want now?
Bronson: Music.]

Oh it was the first time I fell in love
the first time I felt my heart
it was the first time I sang out loud all through the night

but before I knew it, I was lost
before I knew, I was a prisoner
and I just can't find a way to make it right

Comments

[anatsuno]

I haven't seen the movie yet but this seems post on to me, both as to who it portrays him (can't make it outside, finds a place inside?) and as it pertains to the square/kink. I like it! :)

[theleaveswant]

:D Excellent, glad to hear it!

[anatsuno]

You worked out that 'post on' was supposed to be 'spot on', eh? *belated facepalm*

[theleaveswant]

I understood what you meant, yeah :)

[sher_khan]

I still have to see this movie. But as a piece that depicts a man who seems to be violent outside, and happy inside prison, along with the voice over (what it is you want now/ music), it is an almost happy and eerily cheery piece. Knowing what I know about the story, you seem to have plucked a very different chord than one would expect.
It doesn't even seem like a trailer, but does work as a short.
One other comment: the music and voice over came out very loud on my pc (but my volume was turned all the way up), and was a tad surprising.

[theleaveswant]

Oh, he's still violent inside prison (I quite deliberately cut around most of that, but "music" is a ransom demand given over a hostage art therapist) but he's definitely more comfortable there. I'm glad you enjoyed my different-chord-plucking, and yeah, anyone who watched the movie thinking this was representative would be in for a shock.

:P Cranked-up speakers are your own issue, man.

[harpers_child]

having watched bronson, i think this is wonderful.

[theleaveswant]

Thank you! I'm so glad!

[milly]

I am not familiar with the source, but I really enjoyed that you flipped the "prisoner" lyric on its head, with him free to be himself in prison, ill-fitting in the outside world, and doing what it takes to be happy again by returning to prison. Really good take on the kink.