04-18-2007, 10:47 AM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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More of the Greatest Music Videos
Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
http://www.mtv.com/videos/cibo-matto...ar-water.jhtml
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Director Michel Gondry evoked the concept of a "visual palindrome" via his split screen narrative for Cibo Matto's "Sugar Water" clip.
Within their respective frames, Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda rise out of bed and take sugar water showers.
The women exchange a threatening note between frames before a black cat enters the picture and prophesies a vehicular accident.
Perhaps more so than any other music video ever made, "Sugar Water" demands multiple sittings in order to tease out its many ambiguities.
The palindrome structure is merely a point of departure here.
In four short minutes, Gondry both contemplates a cosmic relationship between cause and effect and the existential connection between Hatori and Honda themselves.
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The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
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Life sucks, especially when the government milks you dry and doesn't so much as give you a wider sidewalk for your troubles. Walter Stern's video for The Verve's "Bitter Sweet Symphony" begins on a fascinating note. Disenchanted that life has reduced him to an emotional zombie, ex-Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft chooses to move only to the beat of his own drum. One may ask, "Who's to say that they're not bumping into him?" Which is precisely the point of the video. Ashcroft's subjective reality declares that the world should move for him and not the other way around. This is his passive response. Both song and video pessimistically acknowledge humanity's smallness and oppression by big business and government. But it's not until the song's hopeful bridge, precisely when Ashcroft stares at his reflection on a car window, that he's forced to acknowledge his responsibility to the world around him and his disenchantment turns into something entirely more hopeful.
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