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  "description": "Yours Eternally documentary film inspired by the U2 song of the same name.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-24T22:09:48.000Z",
  "site": "https://chrisenns.com",
  "tags": [
    "released a short film",
    "Days of Ash EP",
    "Direct link to the video",
    "Song of the Future",
    "One Life at a Time",
    "American Obituary"
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  "textContent": "On the 4th anniversary of Russian's invasion of Ukraine, U2 and Ukrainian cinematographer and filmmaker, and a member of the Khartiya Corps, Ilya Mikhaylus released a short film inspired by U2's song, 'Yours Eternally', from their Days of Ash EP:\n\n> Produced by Pyotr Verzilov and shot during the winter of 2025 while Mikhaylus and his crew were embedded alongside the Khartiya Corps, the film captures the extraordinary daily lives of Alina and her fellow soldiers from Khartiya Corps fighting on the frontlines of the war in the Kharkiv region. The short is part of a full-scale documentary set to be released by Mikhaylus and team at the end of 2026.\n\nDirect link to the video\n\nI've been thinking a bit about U2 releasing this music now in 2026 and how they don't have to do it. They could just write some lovey doves pop songs that keep their name in the news cycle, get a bit more money from streaming to pay for repairs on that house in France, and enjoy their 60's as rich rock stars.\n\nBut instead they chose to highlight individuals—a mother, a father, a teenage girl whose lives were brutally cut short—and a soldier who'd rather be singing but is ready to die for the freedom of his country.\n\nIn the words of Bono from 'Song of the Future', he's:\n\n> Running my mouth off\n> It's not poetry\n> But I'm running my mouth off again\n>\n> Sarina Sarina\n> She's the song of the future\n\n...and perhaps singing to himself waving a white flag in the '80's, from a more wisened and experienced Bono who knows you can't save the whole world at once in 'One Life at a Time':\n\n> You say you wanna save the world\n> Well how you gonna get that right\n> You say you wanna save the world tonight\n> You say you wanna save the world\n> And perfect love drives out all fear\n> Well how's that gonna happen here?\n> How's it gonna happen here?\n\nThe answer being:\n\n> One life\n> One life at a time\n\nFind yourself someone who loves and believes in you the way Bono does America, in 'American Obituary':\n\n> Renee Good born to die free\n> American mother of three\n> Seventh day January\n> A bullet for each child, you see\n> The color of her eye\n> 930 Minneapolis\n> To desecrate domestic bliss\n> Three bullets blast, three babies kissed\n> Renee the domestic terrorist???\n> What you can't kill can't die\n> America will rise\n> Against the people of the lie\n> I love you more\n> Than hate loves war",
  "title": "Yours Eternally Short Film",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-24T22:09:48.000Z"
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