This video from the Arctic Monkeys is a performance video. The video is a strange video and the events in it are very surreal and almost fantasy. The video starts with a long shot which enables the viewer to get a view of everything in the shot which includes the band in a small almost homemade looking boat in the middle of an ocean with no land in sight and the mist on the ocean's surface and the sun setting in the background. This creates a scene which looks more like a dream than an actual real life event taking place. As the video continues dusk becomes night and as time in the video moves on the weather gets progressively worse and worse as rain starts to pour and the sea becomes rougher and rougher. Now that it is dark in the video and with nothing to see apart from the band play and the weather conditions the lights on the boat means that the band is the main focus of the video as they are the only lightened thing in the video. After the storm reaches its peak and animals have fled the scene the size of the waves decrease out of the sea comes a giant figure of the band leader playing a guitar and this is where the video becomes very surreal and like a fantasy. As the tempo of the music increases the other band members 'sea giant figures' arise from the sea and together they play on the sea's surface with lightning in the sky and a glow around them and the real band look on from the boat with a confused and little fearful look upon their faces and as the sky slightly regains sight the 'sea giant figurines' descend back into the ocean.
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