This video is a performance video. It is set in a women's prison and the women use the band playing as a means to escape. The very first image of the video is barbed wire on top of a wall with the camera looking up at the wall to make it seem taller which gives an instant impression of being trapped or being kept in or out of a certain place and as we find out later in the video the video takes place within a women's prison so the feeling of entrapment is part of the feelings of the prisoners. The next image of the video is of a tin/metal wall attempted to be knocked down which tells us that the people inside are attempting to break out and throughout the video we see the course of the prisoners attempting an escape using the band and the video keep cutting back to this image of the metallic wall being penetrated. The first speaking part of the video mainly focuses on the lead singer of the band as he is in the centre of the frame and is seen as a sexual object. This is because he would be one of very few males the prisoners would of seen in possibly years being an all female prison and the female prisoners seem to be delighted at the presence of the man screaming and smiling in awe at him and as the band say thank you a women makes a sexual innuendo asking if she can hold his organ and then reacts by handing her his mouth organ. Just as the band start playing and the song begins the camera rotates keeping the lead singer in the center but bars cut across the screen reminding the viewer that it is a jail and does this more than once throughout the video. Throughout the video the symbol on the bands first released album keeps coming into view on the walls and as a tattoo on an inmate's arm unifying the band with the prisoners and visa-versa. It also keeps the audience knowing who the song is by as a large percentage of the video is not on the band and is on the inmates escape. The first indication of an escape comes from the inmates passing the mouth organ behind their backs secretly and comes back into sight when some inmates are cleaning and the organ is slid between the inmates and picked up and put in a bucket of water they use to clean. The image of the inmates scrubbing on their hands and knees is showing the unpleasentries of jail life and supplies a reason for wanting to escape. Another reason the prisoners want escape is shown when the inmates are listening to the band and the guards pull out their batons which is shown dramatically in slow motion shows the kind of treatment the prisoners get while inhabitants within the prison walls. The next time the organ is seen is when it is opened up and revealed to have a key in which opens the cell doors. The key has some sort of glow which shows the inmates see it as some sort of miracle. The escape proves successful as the next images of the video is of the inmate's wearing guards' hat and a guard handcuffed to a bed with a dunce cap on and the final image is of the metallic door opening to the outside world.
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