This video from Oasis is a performance video. At the start of the video we see Noel Gallagher who provides the lead vocals for the song as a person on the street playing guitar and singing for money. The video also follows the story of a man played by actor Robert Carlyle and his perculiar journey from a physically small man in a big city to a huge, giant man ending in the countryside. The majortity of the video is shown with very little colour with grey, white and black being the only formiddible colours along with the brown door. Robert Carlyle's character who at the start is very short stumbles around, ignored from others walking by looks up and the upward camera angle making the buildings and people look tall and dominating telling us that the character feels lost and his small physical size is an indication of how he feels mentally. The Gallagher and Carlyle characyers do cross paths when Carlyle puts some money in the Gallagher's hat for playing and as he picks up the coin it gives us a clear indication of just how short Carlyle's character is. In the next image Carlyle's character has clearly grown in size yet is still shorter than the normal person. Over the course of the video Gallagher's character is simply ignored by most and those of do give him money it is very little and this makes the viewer feel slightly sorry for the character. As Carlyle's character crosses the street his height increases and is now of normal size but falls over and is helped up by man who captures the viewers eye as he is wearing a bright white coat and makes eye contact with the camera but swiflty vacates the scene. Being helped by someone and no longer ignored could be an indication that he is equal in height and importance to everyone else now. As Carlyle's character walks down a city road it fades into a coutryside road and when walking around the countryside he becomes bigger and bigger until he peaks even highier than the tree tops.
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