DYou can regain faith in the good in people in five minutes and 52 seconds. That’s how long the video lasts, titled “Isaac’s Live Lip-Dub Proposal,” which translates to “Isaac’s lip-synch marriage proposal.” It’s May 23, 2012, when Isaac Lamb of Portland, Oregon, summons his girlfriend Amy Frankel to his parents’ house. Isaac’s brother is waiting there and asks Amy to sit in the open trunk of a Honda and put on headphones. As the vehicle slowly starts to move, the song “Marry You” sounds, in which the singer Bruno Mars asks his sweetheart to “do something stupid” and get married spontaneously.
A spectacle unfolds before Amy’s eyes, with more and more of her friends and relatives appearing on the street, moving their lips to the song and hopping and dancing to a lovingly devised choreography in an elated, but obviously unprofessional manner. Some of those involved carry laptops, through which those friends who cannot be there directly are connected, and at some point a marching band passes by. A second camera captures Amy’s reactions, her astonishment, her laughter, her emotion. It’s heartwarming to see how much fun and dedication everyone puts into it; one would love to get to know all these friendly people. And when the dancers finally open an alley for Isaac to ask for Amy’s hand, it goes without saying that she says yes. Otherwise the little film would never have landed on the Internet, where it has been clicked on more than 35 million times on Isaac’s own YouTube channel alone; Several million more people must have seen it on the various platforms on the Internet.