Ramblings of a night owl. deep and shallow thoughts concerning the medial enviroment around us. Sporadicaly updated sadly.

Monday, October 16, 2006

How's this for a video?

Ok, this is the video for Front Line Assembly’s song Epitaph:

"Manhattan island 2001. A drug addict is beaten by her dealer and is forced to deliver a parcel to a certain address within forty minutes. She falls asleep on the tube and a retarded man steals the parcel. Here follows a sequence where the stoned girl stumbles after the limping mongoloid before finally sinking to the ground sobbing. The retard then approaches her and opens the parcel forcing a glowing globe into the half unconscious girl’s mouth. She then wakes up, now dressed in regular clothes, at the train station and sees her train boarding."

How’s that for a story? And I thought mongoloid people only appeared in Aphex Twin videos. But it is the same kind of music so it might be something with the genre. What could be the message behind this quirky video? The meek leading the blind perhaps? The retarded man obviously rescue here from life on the street so why not. This could be a glimpse of a future where Lars Von Trier has given up dogme and started digging into the commercial market.

The only think I can be certain of is that there will be quite some time before I see a video with a retarded hero again.

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