Hello, everyone, here on Atop :D
This Sunday afternoon, which is not normally my favourite part of the week/day, has just skyrocketed to blissful heavens when I learned that I have a whole WEEK OFF WORK because my country is literally paralysed by snow. Oh, free time!!!Oh, pure unlimited leisure !!!
I wanted to say something about THE VIDEO :D
All interpretations boil down to the same Light Vs Dark, Yin/Yang, Freudian Id/Ego/Superego thing, which is all true and correct and perfectly illustrated by this:
I have a problem with the "Versus" part. The Light and the Dark Adam are not opposed to each other, or against each other in any way. To me it's obvious from the start that they are connected in some way and the mystery gets resolved by the end of the video.
They communicate all the time. LA wants to play w/ DA, ball, chess, whatever... He likes DA, they both obviously have this urge to interact, he's reproachful and goes all "mother hen" with his tsk-tsking on DA. It's not the first time DA's been misbehaving:)
All DA's tantrums are directed towards LA. He hates LAs puritanism, his "goody-two-shoes"iness and wants to corrupt him. Here's your book, I'm ripping it apart, you annoying little f***er, like he says. They annoy, but they don't hate each other. Far from it.
But they are also physically connected, in spite of the thin glass dividing them. They share air, through joined air pipes. They are one , and even if they wanted, they couldn't live without each other. Which they don't want to begin with. The minute DA realises he's going to kill LA with fire induced lack of oxygen, he saves him. But he's also saving himself, and he knows it. It's not so noble a gesture as it is an intelligent one. If LA dies, he dies, too.
The final image of the "third" Adam where DA and LA merge is not the ending of the video. It's actually the beginning of the whole story and the video just elaborates on it. Explains it. He's not the "third" Adam, he's the only one. The gorgeous, knee-buckling, stunningly handsome one.
And if the different-coloured-eyes thing isn't a wink to Bowie, albeit a far-fetched one, I don't know what is