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Post by Marky on Oct 6, 2011 10:10:47 GMT -5
I'm sure many of you have enjoyed this series as much as I have, mainly because they just combine some A+ imagery and have a massively intruiging story to them.
So the series starts with 'If I Had A Gun', which starts off with footage of the Bride riding off with the Horseman, to many people's shock and dismay (that kid even let go of his balloon, oh the humanity). Then we have a cut to a flashback of the Bride with what I presume to be her Father, both of whom, despite the mountain of lovely looking presents, look quite regretful and down about the whole thing. Cut to the actual ceremony and it all seems a bit like it shouldn't be happening that way. The Father raising the eyebrows, the flirtatious girl, the worried looking Bridesmaids, and then HUZZAH, in comes the Horseman, much to everyone's dismay, except for the Priest, our Noel Gallagher, who looks like he almost expected something like this to happen. The groom turns expectantly to the Priest, who shrugs it off with a mere hand gesture, and a slight poker face to match. The Horseman dives into the pool, as does the Bride, and lots of backslapping is done, many smiles are beared, and the groom looks thoroughly embarrassed at the whole ideal. Cut to a very short clip of two bleach blonde girls with fake smiles filming the whole thing, and then the romantic kiss underwater, where the two are united without fail, and can't be broken apart as you sense they have been many times before. They ride off into the sunset, and the Priest's work is done for another day. He drives to his next destination, preparing for his next encounter with the world. A Last Chance Saloon in the middle of the desert.
So, onwards and upwards from there really. 'The Death Of You And Me'. Here we are, the morning after the night before and only the Priest remains in this story...for now. As a Blue-dress-wearing Waitress stares out of the window, wondering if it's her imagination, or if she's finally found something work working for, we see the Priest finally encounter her, for what he knows will be a long journey ahead of them, of which she, of course, is totally oblivious of. Nonchalently journaling his thoughts on life, I mean, What A Life!, he's compelled to hark back to memories of that horse-drawn carriage that he's been trying to ward off all this time, all to avail. The Waitress, however, has more pressing things to deal with. Running back and forth between tables serving what look like rejected cast members of the Addams Family. No matter how well she does, it always gets worse, because isn't it a pity, that the sunshine is followed by thunder, the thoughts of going under? The pressure is just too much, and she'd probably accept any old offer for an escape from reality right now, no matter how cloaked or covered it might be. Long, forelorn looks out the window followed by the inevitable 'fuck this, I'm going home' as she throws down her apron, in a 'FUCK YOU' to society! The horse drawn carriage draws closer, with the rustic revellers parading into town, in a classic spaghetti western style. As the waitress decides she's had enough, she recounts the thoughts of going under and falls under the weight of it all, or as we see, is 'pushed' by the Priest, or as we now see him, 'God'. Do you see? The way she sees him is that she's completely lost faith with everything, uncluding religion, as as I've pointed out, in these videos, Noel seems to be depicted as more than a Priest, he is 'The Lord', and she needs him to shine a light on her! She feels that even religion and faith and all this is not only turning it's back on her, but actually forcing her down, it's actually reducing her to the mess she's become! The revellers arrive into town, and the Waitress emerges from the water in an ever so slightly biblical way, to discover her way out, her escape, her new life that is coincidentally just waiting outside of her workplace to whisk her away to a better future! With her mind clouded by all this negativity, she duly accepts the offer to join them. It may look like a circus, like a parade, like a Magical Mystery Tour, but we soon find out that all is not what it seems. She considers the offer briefly, and decides to be out with the old and in with the new, and off she goes, into the carriage.
An intriguing 'To Be Continued' preceeds the next clip, the longest of the 3, and the one to answer as many questions as it indeed poses. What will be inside the carriage? What happens to The Lord? Who were those girls with the camera?
We start with a low flying owl, perhaps an entire metaphor for the direction the series has taken, much more trippy, melancholic, and downright mental. As a mysterious, dark figure by the way of Russell Brand 'welcomes' the Waitress into his 'humble dwelling', he talks of opposing forces such as darkness and light, and knowing the path you're going to take before you've even taken it. You never really had a choice. The world will never look the same again. His increasingly sinister personality and overly-descriptive, horribly-persuasive words are reminiscent of the shamens from many moons ago, and dare I say it, dare I type it, dare I even think it...Satan, the devil himself. Could it be? Satan is luring people into his world? The mysterious substances, the scantily clad women, the sinister music, the dark colours, even the phrasing of his words, it all adds up! Can you see it now? I can see it now! This is the Devil, the counterpart, the enemy, the foe, the complete opposite to the Lord! They're battling against each other! In a bizarre, 'Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus'-style twist, the Devil is trying to claim souls for himself, people for him to ruin and pervert, while the Lord is out trying to save them, trying to slow them down! By now, our Waitress has realised the danger, of which the Devil himself can sense. 'Fear the mind killer, fear the anasthetic of bravery. Cowardice that turgid slick that contains the mind.' Scary stuff indeed. He pours the 'splendid brew' into her world, potentially changing, and harming, it forever, until the liquid soars through the mind, releasing her strongest, and her happiest memories, the moment she declared herself free from the shackles of life not moments ago at the saloon, where we see a certain white-shirted gentleman re-appear. 'It's Noel Gallagher!' he cries, one of the only people to know the Lord's real name. And off she goes. Think of what you'll be missing in the dark magic regions of the mind! Dig out your soul, 'coz here we go! Betrayed by what she has experienced, she's taken on what you may call 'a bad trip', 'Someday you might find your hero, someday you might lose your mind'. We're transported into the past, where the devil first states his intention to find the girl, with two rather familiar faces. Yes! It's those two girls from the wedding, with the camera! Hitch-hiking through the desert never looked so attractive. And in true bandit style, they steal their lift and use it to continue onwards on their mission, leaving the poor lads behind who's car they'd stolen. They should've listened to the Lord: 'Keep on chasing down that rainbow, you'll never know what you might find', which isn't always a good thing! It may be a dream but it tastes like poison, which is certainly one way to describe this trip.
She awakes, in the middle of a deserted dry land, unaware of any moment between her taking the potion and now, to be confronted by those 2 girls, the low flying owls, once more. They capture her and aim to take her back to their boss, not without picking up a random straggler first. Recognizing his face from the wedding, they're blissfully unaware of his higher position of power, and indeed, his ruthless rivalry with their boss! Seeking to gain a good time out of him, they take him to a nearby motel, letting him film them in a slightly erotic camera sequence, with which he totally wipes them away, not just from the film of the camera, but the world too, before locking them away in the box, much to the disappointment of the Devil. Rid from the situation, he's able to free our main protagonist, the Waitress, from the trunk of the car, and drive off into the desert, reminiscent of the couple from the wedding.
And that my friends, is that.
And yes, I do have a lot of spare time.
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