I can't imagine this music video wasn't posted here since it came out 4 years ago but I can't remember seeing it.  That said I have some short term memory issues so I could be wrong. But this belongs here if anything ever did. 
Monsters by James blunt



https://youtu.be/DTFbGcnl0po?si=fm4ghvso4o9GLtum

Anyway I am a HUGE lover of man tears but I honestly have never been able to watch this video all the way through at once.  It's just SO INTENSE. There's no acting, there's no set, there's no context beyond the song itself.  It's just him, staring you down, weeping. One continuous take
The way he doesn't break eye contact the entire time, doesn't shift his gaze, wipe a tear nothing.  You find yourself gazing into his eyes down while the tears and the song keep coming, and it sucks you in.


It's both really hard to watch and hard to resist.
then at the end when you realize he's been having this intense emotional breakdown not only with the camera but sitting right next to his elderly military vet father the song is directed at. Then it really hits just how vulnerable an experience that just have been for both men.

Last edited by inmyarmsagain (January 6, 2025 6:42 am)