glad to know someone else liked this scene as much as myself

@guillemmurphy

Жыл бұрын

it's incredible

@leizee1011

Жыл бұрын

Definitely left me in tears not gonna lie :')

@amydouglas6576

Жыл бұрын

I was in pieces when he sang that, and again at the end on the swing in the snow.......he made such a convincing job of it......

@mrsparethnot

Жыл бұрын

🥲

@dave8540

Жыл бұрын

I saw it tonight , such an emotional and moving moment

He stops singing at the part about his mother and at the end when he is happy and at peace he joyfully finishes the verse… I love how they do that it’s like he knows he will be seeing her again soon in heaven.

@littlsuprstr

9 ай бұрын

I don't believe he's happy at all. He can't go on because the thought of all the time and life that's passed him by is crushing him.

@davidnewton2633

8 ай бұрын

Can't disagree more. He has an awakening, but it's not about regrets. Some arrive in heaven after a lifetime of striving, but a few others can achieve it through a single act. It was a truly beautiful movie!

@ABC_DEF

7 ай бұрын

You are imposing your own theology on the film. There is nothing in the film about going to heaven or meeting his mother.

@kacperperzynski7488

6 ай бұрын

​@@ABC_DEFwilliams said something about children going into home and resisting and likewise him going into heaven and resisting a bit

@rimmerd9908

5 ай бұрын

@@ABC_DEF I thought exactly the same. Maybe one day we can merely comment on something as beautiful and sad as this without resorting to the presumption that it's universally accepted that we know what happens after our hearts stop. We absolutely don't. The claims that are made by religion are varied to say the least and based merely on ancient man written words from the Bronze age which now right minded modern day person should be throwing around as accepted fact

Great film by a great actor. I just turned 70 and this film affected me deeply.

Oh man.. A whole movie was exceptional but this performance I watch when no one is looking.

I remember crying at this scene in theaters recently when I went to watch this movie on a whim. I ended up loving the film, along with Bill Nighy's performance being phenomenal and so immersive. It makes me sad knowing he couldn't win the Oscar for Best Leading Actor. But deep down, he'll always be my favorite choice and I'll stand by it

@wheelblack35

5 ай бұрын

Why couldn’t he win an Oscar ?

@wheelblack35

4 ай бұрын

@@micheyp1he DIDNT win an Oscar .. he COULD have had given the opposition

I like how the pianist initially sings with him thinking he’s a drunk who’ll stumble too much, as if just humouring him, but then let’s him go solo realising like the rest of the audience that this is very personal to him and even moves an extra to tears

I have no doubt this is the Best scene of 2022. This scene is priceless

Bill Nighys performance in this film is brilliant. This scene is very moving. From the first moments I knew it was going to be a great piece of art.

The emotions that Bill Nighy evokes by singing this song🥲

This scene deserve an Oscar

Let us remember to live each day.

I was so mesmerized by Nighy's performance that I went to see the film two days in a row--something I have never done before.

I have just watched the movie. Very touching!

The torrent of tears this brings. I’m so glad that such a wonderful and beautiful actor as Mr. Nighy did this moving scene

Watched this while travelling in an aeroplane...This movie touched me deeply and the actor is just beyond acting ...he became absolutely the character ...have rarely seen such acting in my life ...

I saw this movie on an airplane. This scene left a deep impression on me. Great movie on the main island.

This was a beautiful film.

나도 모르게 눈물이 주르륵!!! 그다음부터는 온몸으로 울었던 장면!!

Favorite scene in the movie

This scene really takes me. Bill Nighy should record a Celtic music album and it will be awesome. The timbre of his voice is so soothing.

i love this ....watched 10000 times ...tears on my face each time...

I watched the movie last night on a flight. This song I’d never heard and wish it was on Spotify with his version.

i know the other candidates are wonderful too, but mr nighy is definitely my favorite, I really wish this man could win an oscar

What a very touching movie and all by its simplicity

This scene is full of emotions. The movie is gold and yes, it has introduced me to the very beautiful Scottish song the Rowan tree✨

The moment I couldn’t keep my tears …. Astonished film .. Billy remind me my dad an law passed from cancer as well last year. I did my best hold him .. God has everything in order

@sidpheasant7585

8 ай бұрын

You said it! Especially in your last sentence. Bless you!

What a wonderful movie! Bill Nighy is amazing!

Tom Burke is so great in this scene, providing empathetic response to this stranger just met, now baring his soul to other strangers. His character, Mr. Sutherland, in an all too brief appearance, projects a kind of complicated soul as well...and who better to usher Mr. Williams through his first few steps towards recovering the life-affirming attitude of his youth.

@kathleenferrier1

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Tom Burke was very good indeed imho. A very well made film with fine acting throughout. A worthy 'remake' of Ikiru conscious of its origins but also brilliantly and movingly transposed to the London of the 1950s...

@sidpheasant7585

8 ай бұрын

How wonderful that you get that! I agree. When the Scots of old invoked the rowan, they did so against evil and witchcraft, and when Williams sings this in the dive bar, he indicates to one and all that his way of "living" to the end will in fact be to leave behind the earthly pleasures and pleasures of the flesh, in favour of a bit of last-minute muscular Christianity that it is within his power to achieve. Mr Sutherland (good Scottish name) brought him into these fleshpots, and to the wine, women and song, but out of utter kindness, mercy, sympathy and goodness; but even as he did so that incalculably good and kind deed was inevitably going to change him as much as it changed Williams, or even more. Those facial expressions from piano guy and Mr Sutherland look just like the real thing, do they not? Fortunately for us, the Holy Spirit is very good at blurring life and art as he works on giving us his signs. Signs through Scripture, nature and Rapture, but also signs through human culture. Since the Paraclete of love and truth carries the experience of Jesus as a human being as well as our Saviour, he is well-placed to reach us through transcending human genius. And He does so rather often, I find!!!

Acting and singing at it finest.. Just stunning

AWESOME .....my Dad used to sing this after a few drams !

I am an Arab, I did not understand the words, but the feeling reached me with strength. Honestly, her feelings are very strong

@amydouglas6576

Жыл бұрын

I have Scottish blood on my late father's side, and it overflowed into a flood of tears when Bill sang from his poor broken heart in that scene.....he is an outstanding actor.....

@FaisalFrame

Жыл бұрын

نترجم لك يالسمي ولا يهمك

@fasialalenzi4644

Жыл бұрын

@@FaisalFrame لا خلا ولاعدم يالسمي 😘

@acceptableandbornind80s32

Жыл бұрын

That's because you have a decent soul

@davidbarlow269

9 ай бұрын

Salam aylecum ... It is about lifes memories and his thoughts of family and mother.

This story and movie should be on everyone's bucket list, both Akira Kurosawa's and Kazuo Ishiguro's.

I watched this film today and sat there with tears in my eyes for half the film, reminded me so much of my old grandad, beautiful film.

For this scene alone, he should be awarded the Oscars.

What an absolutely lovely movie. This film should have won an Oscar. Bravo

I'm a huge fan of "Ikiru" (the film Living is a remake of), and the scene where the main character sings The Gondola Song in the bar, and later on the swing. I think this scene in Living is perhaps even more powerful than the one in Ikiru, maybe because I have a soft spot for UK folk music, or maybe because the character of Mr. Williams seems so quiet and collected throughout most of the film, except when he's singing this song.

I loved Nighy’s performance, and I’m sorry he’s unlikely to win. Best Actor is an amazing line-up this year.

@elizabethatkin6506

Жыл бұрын

Just watched this film on dvd. Love Bill Nighy, fantastic actor. But always seems himself. Very poignant film, have to say shed a tear. Not a half bad singer too. Just Brilliant

Descubrí tarde a este actor,pero he tratado de ver algunas de sus películas y nunca defrauda. Es un actor grandioso. En esta escena es imposible no conmoverse y llorar. Realmente me encanta.

Thank you for uploading this scene. I've been searching for it since I saw the movie in the theater.

This scene has had a major impact on me and there’s a lot going on. But it’s something about the reaction of the other guys face when he’s singing that just hits hard

@sidpheasant7585

8 ай бұрын

In fact there are two other guys, both it would seem changed spiritually by the singing of the song. Mr Sutherland (good Scottish name) listens to the song and realises that his way of helping Mr Williams live again (though extremely well-meant and kind) is in essence the worldy way, which means the sinful way - indeed, he has jollied Williams along with wine, women and song in the only way he knows how! His kindness and mercy shown mean that he is not a bad man, but still a man who will need to move on to a more spiritual path, just as the Bill Nighy character does as he heralds his turn to action from inaction and vice, by singing a song that invokes the rowan tree - where invoking the rowan tree in old Scotland was as a protection against evil spirits and witchcraft. Meanwhile, the piano guy (not a named character) responds to the song with vigour, adapts readily to the change of mood and circumstance and joins in with reverence and joy. The fact that a player in a dive bar knows the tune at all is the first miracle, but he does! You will note at 1:41 that the two pieces of music on the piano music stand together read "I saw" and "After". If you think those words are by chance, good luck to you! If you think the Director wanted that, well maybe it's true. If you think that's a sign, well God bless you! The co-director on this movie called "Living" is the Holy Spirit, and He is the expert on signs, connnections and synergy through love and truth. Since the Holy Spirit blurs life and art as he gives signs, you are entitled to wonder (in both senses of the word) that the actors are not just reflecting their characters' attitudes to the film plot, but are also reflecting their own GENUINE emotions. Of course, how they have lived their lives since is anybody's guess - the Holy Spirit gives us chances, even a multitude of chances, but at some point we just have to see, and then be determined and deliberate in inviting him in. Veni Sancte Spiritus. I was. But guess how? When I was told out of the blue that I had a 12-centimetre tumour (on top of inexplicable weight loss). On careful (later) examination, the lesion emerged as benign (most likely - I'm still here, living). I put the weight back on - so make of that what you will. But in the meantime I had been Born Again, started to see more signs, including in films and music; and started to write to people about it on KZread, never for a second considering the time and effort taken to do that as a waste of time. Rather it is the way I live and love and see meaning more than I ever have before...

Nighy also sang this at the end of the film. I was deeply moved and was not ashamed of my tears which flowed

Just watch Bill Nighys film Living which had brought me here , im Scottish and loved hearing him sing this song. ❤

Who else has also seen kurosawa's ikiru?

Oh rowan tree, oh rowan tree Thou'lt aya be dear to thee Entwined thou art wi' many ties O'hame and infancy Thy leaves were aye the first of spring Thy flowers the summer's pride There was nae sic a bonnie tree In a' the country side (Oh rowan tree How fair you were in summer time Wi' a'thy clusters white How rich and gay thy autumn dress, Wi' berries red and bright!) On thy fair stem were mony names Which now nae mair I see But they're engraven on my heart, Forget they ne'er can be Oh rowan tree We sat aneath thy spreadin' shade The bairnies round thee ran They pu'd they bonnie berries red, And necklaces they strang My mother, oh! I see her still, She smil'd our sports to see Wi' little jeannie on her lap, And jamie on her knee Oh rowan tree Oh there arose my father's pray'are In holy ev'ning's calm How sweet was them my mother's voice, In the martyrs' psalm Now a'are gane! We meet nae mair aneath the rowan tree But hallow'd thoughts around thee twine O'hame and infancy Oh rowan tree

@penelopecr6789

10 ай бұрын

Thank you❤

maybe the most terrifyingly beautiful scene I have ever watched. Thank you warmly for singing, Sir Nighy, I know how hard it must have been

@sidpheasant7585

8 ай бұрын

But no real terror here. Truth and love rather - with Jesus and the Holy Spirit we can take it...

I agree, BEST scene nominated films Oscars awards this year.

Sublime clip and performance; evokes for me Leonard Cohen’s 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆

Die berührendste und innigste Szene!

What a beautiful movie. Truly. I’m a big Bill Nighy fan as well. Beautiful song that I will now add to my playlist especially the version as credits rolled. I’ll try to remember to LIVE and not just EXIST. 🥲

Oh thanks so much for uploading this ❤ It was such a beautiful moment in that wonderful movie ❤ I wish they included Bill’s version on the soundtrack, he has a lovely voice

Although I'm Japanese just having tiny experiences whilst my short stays in UK, this movie touched my heard more deeply rather than the original one directed by kurosawa I'd watched in my youthhood. Thank you for the good work.

This one snuck up on me. Had the emotion welling up in me already...this scene was only a little ways into the film.

Mr. Nighy should have won the Oscar. Don't me wrong...Brendan is a very good actor. But, Bill is showing so much emotion and vulnerability in this scene. And, all without the aid of a suit.

Sang from the heart. Quite emotional. 😢

This was so moving...made my eyes leak. Beautiful ❤

가슴으로만 들을 수 있어서 행복했습니다.

Thank you for uploading this! I absolutely adore this scene. Now, I can cry on command. 😢

What a beautiful human! ❤

This is so beautiful and heartfelt.

Ame la canción y la peli 😢❤

So touching!

I play this first thing everyday on my bagpipes, to tune up. It is beautiful and this scene is so moving

@sidpheasant7585

8 ай бұрын

Interesting, actually - I know this song rather well down the years from the Massed Pipes and Drums. But their version is mostly much more jaunty. The above seems to me more of the real deal...

Laurie (Piano man) went to my school!

It goes very well. And the hat is hearth breaking.

Great film.

I really like this movie and Bill Nighy’s performance. He’s really good in this.

Life is strange, a great touching scene. He got the oscar from my heart. Do we all seek something from our past to remember the careless childhood and happiness or he just did want to remember his mother.

@sidpheasant7585

8 ай бұрын

A bit more than that. He wants to start living again, and the kindly Mr Sutherland (out of boundless sympathy and mercy) thinks he can help that along with smoking, drinking, singing, strippers and even prostitutes. These are the earthly pleasures, and Mr Williams does flirt with them. But he ends up taking a higher, spiritual path, albeit one that is within his power to act - even in a practical and down-to-earth way. This is perfect "muscular christianity" The point of shift comes with the singing of the sad and serious song, which the dive bar is willing to accept, and which the pianist (though more used to other kinds of music) nevertheless knows and even admires. But invocation of the rowan tree is an ancient thing indicating a way evil can be warded off. Crosses were made of its wood, for example... The song refers to the tree as "bonnie" , which obviously means "pretty" in Scottish, but also means "good"!!! The second times he sings it is very shortly before his death, sitting on the swing. Even at the last we might swing over to evil. So, his task achieved, he sings the song, which is of course ALSO about the memory and joy and assistance that the tree can offer - but they are all good things, as the tree is said to stand up for what is good and right against what is evil.

Some people say we have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.

epic of the movie

Am I the only one who wants to see Bill Nighy sing the whole thing?

Hermosa película, excelente mensaje, pero hay otras personas que andábamos así como zombies, y no tenemos esa enfermedad, se nos olvidó vivir...y nadie se da cuenta ni uno misma

A very touching scene full of meanings:The end of an era and The beginning of a new one with, helas, other characters...

Something we can understand about what happens to films (and other Holy Spirit-blessed and inspired forms of art) when they start to transcend: that the meaning and the connectivity and synergy are unavoidable and just burst out from every corner. The character is Rodney Williams. Rodney actually means the island by the clearing (which is perfect for the character since he is isolated, has become so, by events in his life and by choice, but now needs to leave the woods behind so that he can see the big picture with clarity). Williams is basically derived from William, which means "resolute protector" - which is what the character became in the second part of the movie. Part of that process is played by Margaret, whose name means pearl, but by extension jewel and bringer of light... Old-times invocation of the rowan tree in Scotland, and probably UK in general is to protect against evil spirits. The main meaning in the tree's name (also mountain ash) is red, which fits with those berries. The noble name of Rowntree connects with Rowan Tree, and Rowan Atkinson, though persuading us that he mocks God, has actually been used by the Holy Spirit on several occasions, even having his life saved several times in extreme circumstances to play on (his Mr Bean is a fallen angel, for example, who achieves his Holy Day in the movie, at Cannes, as he and the cast sing the song "La Mer", with its specific references to angels and sheep). The song "the rowan tree" (often played by the massed pipes and drums in more jaunty fashion) is here seen in all its moving glory. Beautifully, the song confers dignity, grace and beauty upon the dive bar and the piano guy who is used to lighter. more raucous music, but still knows how to play the melody, and is moved to join the old man - "Mr Zombie", as he suddenly comes spiritually alive. The warmth and love on the face of the pianist at 0:14 is a moving joy. By no chance at all, the music we see on his piano stand reads (at 1:41) - "I saw" and "After"!!!!!!! This is especially interesting as the further key character here, Mr Sutherland (another Scottish name) is so marvellously dual in nature. He wants to bring Mr Williams back to life through earthly pleasures, and effectively therefore sin. As Williams sings the song, he wards off that evil. Yet Sutherland is a sympathetic character, taking the old man under his wing with genuine human feeling, sympathy, kindness and understanding. He helped in the best way he knew, even if that involved drink and strippers! The Holy Spirit is FAR more broad-minded than we believe, as there is basic goodness in the somewhat-disillusioned Sutherland - whose name simply means "southern land". HIS face at 1:11 is a picture of rueful recognition. Mr Williams thus decides to turn what is left of his life to a spiritual quest that nevertheless assumes the most practical dimesions. Having managed that, Williams sings the song the second time just before dying. The song actually references children playing with and by the rowan tree, which is the goal he sought to achieve and has achieved. Still, Hades might always make a last grab for us even at the last, so the character seeks to assure his sanctity, by singing the song that references the tree's offer of beauty, memory, colour, shade, play and many other good things, while denying what is evil. As we come to the end of that rendition of the song sung from the child's swing (and witnessed by a young policeman who feels guilty at not intervening to help the dying man), the music becomes what the subtitles on the movie call "melancholy" music. This is actually far from it, as it is the soaring majesty and beauty and wonder of the "Thomas Tallis" Fantasia from Ralph Vaughan Williams (another Williams), given in the credits in fact as "largo sostenuto" - i.e. the part in which each note is sustained. This transition of musical periods and styles is remarkable, deeply moving - it should not work, but it does. However the original text Thomas Tallis used in his music, later taken up by the great Ralph is called "Why fumeth in fight?" This fits very well indeed with the motif here as it is a warning and chastisement directed against Kings who try to do things to the people they rule that go against what Christ as true King would want. The words even urge the judges of right and wrong to give their advice to the lords and the kings while there is still a chance to do so - this is rather close to the concept of the civil servant doing good, and being active ... which is so strong in the movie...

Don't forget he also sang in "Still Crazy." Great fuckin' voice, I say. Him and Jimmy Nail, they huh.. nailed it. As for this performance, this is just killer.

Heartbreaker

This is a very beautiful song and such a powerful scene.

😪😪💟💟💟💟..I see her still...

This video appeared on my recommended list. Glad I decided to watch it. As a 24 year old who plays the bagpipes, and that one of the first tunes I learned to play was Rowan Tree, this video really made me emotional. Not sure why but it did. Looking forward to watching this move. Well done.

omg....Irish ballads, are soul music. I have so many personal favorites. And it's funny when people are surprised to hear me sing them. I'm a black American, born and raised in Los Angeles. But soul music finds the heart that understands it. No matter where someone is from.

@ScotisticDad

9 ай бұрын

It's a Scottish song

@regand7830

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the correction. Songs from that part of the world are so beautiful.@@ScotisticDad

Very well done........ fabulous work by BN. Made me fill up a bit.............that the power of music i suppose.

@sidpheasant7585

8 ай бұрын

The power comes from the Holy Spirit, who gives signs through Scripture, nature, culture and rapture. Music is a part of the culture. This song is specific, as the rowan tree was invoked by the ancient Scots against evil and witchcraft. It is a "bonnie" tree, which means not only pretty, but also "full of goodness" If you think that is all by chance, well you haven't met the Holy Spirit fully yet.' Veni Sancte Spiritus. With Him we see a lot more.

I found it. This is fantastic, Mr. Bill Nighy. I really do love this..

Brilliance

Such a poignant cinematic moment.

Fantastic

Good actor good film. I am going to watch it soon .just about what life can be like .and how we miss it when its coming to the end .a real film.

So this is what Davey Jones does on his spare time

Мистеру Вильямсу посвящается, а так-же всем творцам, созидателям и ценителям Жизни, спешащим успеть оставить после себя достойный след в истории Человечества!

日本映画「生きる」の志村喬の歌「ゴンドラの唄」とこのカズオ脚色の映画「生きるLIVING」のBill Nighyが唄う「The Rowan Tree」の違いと同一性が面白い。

カズオイシグロ特集を本屋で買って、この映画が上映されることを知りました。公開日の翌日に見ることにはなりましたが、見てよかったです。細かい描写は結構飛ばされてて、そこは想像で補う感じでした。物足りない感は少し否めませんが、全体的に良い映画という印象です。

Love Billy Nighy's singing in movies (particularly in Love Actually) but if I had to choose, this would have to be my ultimate favourite song by him. Also I think someone needs to sync this with Davy Jones

He portrayed that 70% drunk state very, very well. Maybe he was 70% drunk.

❤

Heartbreaking

@sidpheasant7585

8 ай бұрын

Does it not just burst, more than break? Having been filled with immeasurably beautiful and true things? I think mine does...

@TD_427

8 ай бұрын

@@sidpheasant7585 Yes, indeed. Beautifully stated.

❤❤❤😢

1:47 does Bill complete the song to when it mentions Jamie? I’ll buy the film if it does!! In the cinema I recall starkly Jamie’s name being sung near the end credits...

@guywholivesforart

Жыл бұрын

Yes, if I recall correctly, he sings at least the end of the song in the final scene. It's heart-rendingly beautiful.

@ta4music459

Жыл бұрын

@@guywholivesforart 100% agreed. As it's near the end, we hear the "official" version starting just after the end and we can compare. That performance is good, but it's just that - beautiful singing, but it doesn't touch the emotional strings the way Bill Nighy's version does. He has the perfect voice for that song.

😢😢😢😢

😢

Is this an Irish song?

@sleepyeyes1968

Жыл бұрын

Scottish