And that's what you do when you win an Oscar: a Rush clip filled with special effects that are hard to watch these days because the material quality is so strange and lame you don't wanna see it
again. Zbigniew Rybczynski won the coveted award with a crazy animated short film called "Tango" (mindblowing to the point you can actually lose your mind watching it). Then, he went on to direct
music videos for several bands, including Simple Minds and others. He was creative and all but the heavy use of chrome key and presenting Rush and Aimee Mann flying around through several places was
plain weird and corny.
But I'll never complain about the song which is one of their finest and a clip is all about selling the song in the best way you can.
Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart and Aimee Mann (doing backing vocals and "filming" the band with a TV camera) appear in the video flying around the whole time whether being on a soundstage or some other scenery. Might have been
some cool special effects back in the 1980's but now it looks so dated and corny that the effect fades away with laughter...except that we have one of the most powerful songs ever written behind and that
washes away all the sins this video might have committed. "Time Stand Still" yet the whole band keeps on flying around playing their instruments. There's no logic to it, no metaphor for it. It's too crazy
just like the short film "Tango" was. Well, that was crazier but it had a meaning behind. If the video doesn't work for itself, at least the song makes it all happen like magic, like tears in the rain. It
makes you feel new, complete and powerful. The solo part with the band when the images are repeated over and over again is truly awesome and possibly an inspiration to "The White Stripes" making that
clip where they keep multiplying through the streets all the time.
Music is great, video is sort of like special. Deserves some view, but even Geddy Lee says it was weird....because his hairdo was lame. 8/10
