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'If You Tolerate This' Music Video
Right, I'm doing a commentary on this video for Media and I have to talk about symbolism, camera effects and such. I have everything sorted....pretty much. But what the hell are the sensor things about? I thought it might be something to do with seeing the world through technology. But that's crap, so any ideas?
Oh and also I don't understand why Sean's drumkit is in a bag
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I've always thought that sensor thing thing the checkout scanners was just about putting a price on human lives?
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I never thought of that, it is possible. It makes more sense than my initial thought, it ties in with the themes of the video.
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you want some promo pics of that vid here? i can post few in the afternoon
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Oooh yes please
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I've sometimes wondered about the drum kit wrapped up and always thought the cable hanging down was plugged into Sean at the back making him like a drone / robot thing. I've never thought about it too much but it's one video I never get tired of seeing, it's brilliant and really adds to the coldness of the song I feel. I'm 100% positive it's their most expensive music video from an interview I read years ago.
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Remember what the lyrics are about...the spanish civil war (there's a newspaper in the video iirc) in contrast to the apathy of the modern generations.
The hand scanners are soma-like pacifying devices. As the video progresses, the band slowly succumb to the morphine effect of modern life, Sean taking a hit of gas, making him smile with a dumb bliss, James losing his eyes, a symbol of how we ignore the horrors of the world.
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as promised. most of these were taken by Mitch Ikeda
more of James and Nicky a bit later
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Those helmets also reminded me of the outfits they'd wear in the Prisoner, during that strange game with the trampoline.
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Also thanks Deets and Finn! Really appreciate it
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Why did you choose this song? Really not one of my favourite Manic songs. For a project like this I would have chosen Kevin Carter or La Triesta Durea (pardon my French for the last)
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