littlecatk

DISCLAIMER: This is a fan video. I do not own the rights to any of the clips or music. For nonprofit entertainment purposes only.

 

Fandom: The Fast and Furious (1 - 6)

Music: Best Coast - The only place

Character/Pairing: Mia, Mia/Letty, 

Summary: Mia/Agency for live. Mia/home-family

During the time span passing within the movies Mia and Letty have seen a lot of places. But home is where the heart is. So Mia starts her engine and drives for what is important. 

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I first uploaded this on the 21.2.2017, the audio mixing is not perfect but  i am not really skilled to fix it.I however fixed some gosthframes: 19.9.2017.

I think the sound of an engine starting makes a nice start - as a straight forward methapor - but in this video it also becomes kind of Mias personal "theme" - when she makes a decision it turns up. 

 

"We've got the ocean, got the babes/Got the sun, we've got the waves" the second best thing in the world is cars and what we see first.

Family/love - the best thing in the world, the reason why she starts her engine and runs no matter law or logic. Before the engine starts again and she chose her family over Brian (how could she not? he loves her for this action, of cause (he loves all of them for this)) there is the shot with the parking lot and the sunset overhead - it is a nice transition, something coming to an end but its also the scene where she and Brian went on a date, where he made her feel like she came first for once, but she gives up on that.

We've got the ocean, got the babes/Got the sun, we've got the waves" Woman dancing (Brasil-Letty), and car racing (L.A. Mia) (i tried to edit the movment together. only semi succesfull) this is all nice but it is not the real deal.

mountains,birds,ocean,trees,babes,waves = cars. and eachother. both things you can take everywhere with you.

The intercutting of the kids arriving with their candy coloured cars vs Lettys funeral. I think a lot about this time in their life. They were so young. And even at this point they still are. "If I was Letty I would ask you, no I would beg you to let it go Dom" but when he doesnt listen to her, she let him, for the same reason she begged, her first priority is to keep her family save (and/or together - the battle between this two and to what she gives in dominates her life). So she starts her engine and goes on from nothing,

"Why would you live anywhere else?" This time there are mountains,waves, trees and birds as they "travel"(flee) but its not the planning around extraditions treaties that make this a glum look on her face. The intercutting, conected by the light composition, of Mia (and Brian) seeing Dom and Vince again in Brasil, with the sunlight shinning behind them - and them shining as bright because its all worth it as long as they have this, and Letty who unknown to the others is alive but with amnesia, coming into a dark meet up (and the way she gets out of the car, repeating the visual from earlier in the video)

So leave your cold behind/We're gonna make it to the beach on time"Mia has settled down it was not 1327 but home is where the heart is, and this is why the leave it behind for the slim of a chance that Letty is alive. "We are stronger together"