Finding 'The Sublime' on YouTube, continued

On top of my first analysis, here's an alternative clip of 'the sublime' on YouTube:



Honestly, I struggled over choosing this clip or Vega's performance to really focus on in my first analysis. I think they both are profoundly sublime, though I finally admitted that Vega's performance simply exhibited more literal features of Longinus' sublime. But this clip has something of a postmodern, ironic essence, which I adore.

This clip, appropriately titled "Doll Face," meets the universality of the sublime by showing us a tragic story of a fatal 'mistaken identity' of sorts, and then immediately putting ourselves into 'Doll Face's' shoes. Doll Face is led to self destruction through the source of media - the television, and at the end of the clip the screen pans out to find that we have been watching Doll Face's demise on our own 'television.' Not only do we emotionally connect with Face's aspirations to be beautiful, but we realize that we are 'Doll Face' by simply watching Doll Face. This is a universal message about the human experience - we are all behind the 'television screen' of human experience. Even those who are trying to help us, such as through Doll Face's example, we still see them through a filter of someone else eyes. This is universal, and thus strikes us with the sublime.