Feist - The Water (Music Video)

Cillian Murphy in a Kevin Drew directed music video for Feist's song, the water.

[@chetanamukherjee2424]

I see Cillian, I click.

[@lucietegtmajerova5294]

Same here. :D

[@gylah5537]

Click²

[@Topspin89]

It's really that simple, isn't it?

[@cinnamonsugar97]

I click click click

[@sheilahughes3561]

Nothing else to say really!

[@nfc2130]

The performance is heart breaking. The flutter of the eyelashes. The suppressed yet emotional gaze. The subtle lip movement. The simplest and richest way to convey pain without the need for words.

[@seealterego88]

I just love how actors can bring about so many emotions with only so few words spoken. Something Cillian does so flawlessly.❤️

[@kimdye4609]

Ditto!! He is brilliant at that especially as TS! When he does speak it is deliberate& profound! Like u r on the edge waiting to see what he will say!!

[@jackiv.5574]

I think this movie touches on how we will all inevitably lose our parents. Water represents death. The young man is losing his father to old age and is coming to terms with losing him. Doing this brings feelings associated with losing his mother several years before, to the surface. At the end he finally accepts that they're both gone as they slip into the water. I can't understand why I watch this; it upsets me every time.

[@itsmeitsme9854]

so it is.

[@j_freed]

Jacki V. - looks this way to me. Feist is cast in the story as 'mother' and the younger man they cast could easily be her son in his appearance except here they seem too close in age. Therefore here in the story he lost this mother quite some time ago. The few spoken words 'it's time' are an acknowledgment of the past time of death and loss (unraveling the shrouds covering death), and the present time of the father joining the dead mother. Death and loss joins the present with the the past - the procession of both of them into the lake, into final union within the timeless and infinite. It's a resolution of grief and attachment into wholeness and freedom.

[@gylah5537]

Awww

[@troyrivas5204]

I remember watching this when it first came out, it still gives me the same feelings today! Love this

[@spoocyguy]

I came away with a different interpretation from others on here. I see Cillian as the old man's youth. Cillian is obviously the one who is struggling out of the three, and he's struggling to let go of his youthful past and be in the present, where he is an old man close to death. Feist is his wife, but he sees her as he sees Cillian, in her beautiful youth when they first found their love for each other. It's basically just an old man dealing with his past. He "unwraps" his dead wife and sees her with her youthful skin and "hangs out with her" one last time before he fades into death. The video could have just been the old man doing everything the same without Cillian but I think adding a young man adds the element of nostalgia and longing for a time long ago. He still feels so full of life and young, like he did when he first met his girl and they were a new couple full of promise. Cillian gets left behind in the end, and she gives him a warm and sad hug, she knows this will be the last time these two young lovebirds will see each other again in this lifetime. And she takes who he is NOW, an old man, and guides him as he crosses over to the other side with her. It seems sad but on the other side those two young lovebirds are together again. But she is acknowledging that on this plane of existence, it really hurts to part ways with your lover. She lovingly guides her old lover over, where they can be free at heart and together fully once again.

[@urnotjonesy]

It's a father and son, and the mother/wife. But I like your interpretation WAY better. So so much better ;) consequenceofsound.net/2009/04/watch-feist-gets-heavy-in-the-water/

[@kadybrown569]

@@urnotjonesy Thanks for posting this. It helps explain the video.

[@vineetarawat2209]

I disagree that Cillian is younger version of the old man.. see Cillian was holding a photograph of that woman with younger version of the old man .. so I guess they were his parents.. his father also died in the end.. his mother died when she was young.. and Cillian is left alone in the end

[@nfc2130]

This is brilliant though.

[@ivettaprosto3399]

@@vineetarawat2209 А мне кажется, что герой Киллиана не сын этой пары, во всяком случае, женщины. Для мамы она слишком слабо интересуется сыном, а ведь видит его взрослым впервые. Скорее всего, Киллиан лишь проводник, помогающий пожилому человеку повидаться со своей любовью в последний раз и вновь, уже вместе перейти Стикс...

[@judyengle7728]

I love when Cillian cries

[@mmbris]

Cillian Murphy is the son. The dad is going to die, so they get his mom (who's been dead for awhile) out of The Water, they spend the night together and then the dad dies in the end.

[@obeythefluff07]

oh my god, I love Feist and Cillian Murphy! this is just so perfect XD

[@kennedydanzig]

Really doesn’t take too many words to have a good plot!! And Cillian tho😻

[@ciosborn]

Things that make you go hmm. I have always loved this song.

[@kate9341]

I feel it

[@Daysithecrazy]

It did make me cry

[@itsmeitsme9854]

me too

[@katiboss4417]

Epic ❤️

[@djmorecake]

Supernice

[@ciosborn]

Deep

[@The194246]

Is beautiful film anf and sad 😔

[@Abby3678xx]

can someone pls explain to me what this means

[@mangographics225]

It's the old story of the "silkie"

[@TachoNacho1]

I actually didn't get it...what was going on??

[@patriciaaranda699]

What the movie is?

[@humbertorivera9723]

No the water, no, no no

[@puji4404]

9:17 until 10:10 that awkward moment

[@DevinSymone]

I could seriously see Gucci using this in one of their ads

[@the2ndcoming135]

🤣

[@franknows8051]

if you are a desensitized person then obviously you've never heard of the word "symbolism".

[@PerfectlyErks]

Just saw Oppenheimer and Cillian looks like a baby here! Lol.

[@doofmaczemy]

So Kayne West's videos don't even count?

[@the2ndcoming135]

Nah. Because he doesn’t take off his shirt enough like Gambino does🙆🏻‍♂️

[@aap2310]

Really didn't make sense at all.

[@the2ndcoming135]

When you came here for the thirst, and thought you might have a chance of moving some furniture while heavily breathing☺️

[@adamclaybourne]

the most pretentious comment to date

[@ThatCreeNative1]

pretentious and ambiguous

[@didleybopp]

That was not good. Boring and not pertinent to the lyrics. It's a great song, too bad they decided to just film something irrelevant and then stick the music on top.