Hello!
I gotta agree it's a bit sad to see this song finally edited and the intro takes up for more than half the video haha! But I understand the constraints and it was actually a bit unfair to put it for an IC since it requires so much to edit the faster parts correctly.
I think you did a decent job on the first part, except for those color corrections that are way too monochromatic and forced on the scenes that are almost on the whole video. The atmosphere you built seems very nice and contemplative, it's overall clean and well edited until the drop. I only got a bit confused with that adam scene at 57s but I guess that's the point in this category.
But the second part is way too messy in a lot of aspects. First of all the fading/overlay are too present and doesn't do your editing justice. Then regarding scene selection, the first impact feels weak, even with the shockwave you added, it needed something with more percussion. And you have a very inconsistent dynamic part: you start with lots of characters, then go for a lot of more abstract plans, it makes it harder to connect everything together and it would have been much more interesting to try and mix those two kind of scenes.
Towards the end, the scenes are getting longer, even though you have nice synchs, you can feel the energy dropping and imo this kind of song is not merciful with longer scenes except if it's really well thought out.
And of course this cut fade wasn't sounding good but I look forward to the extended version! Good job for taking this harsh song and keep it up!