December 7, 2007
"Beliy Plashik"-Video - You don't joke like that!
I kept silence for a really long time, and now I wish to tell you so much that I'm afraid to get blown into pieces with my wish like a hamster with a drop of nicotine.
I'll do my best to arrange my thoughts so these won't seem as a spontaneous stream of consciousness.
At first - about connection between music, lyrics and video:
The demand of existence of connection between the formal meanings of the music, lyrics and picture is not applicable here ‘cause the clip is not something of a kind of "BBC - Live Nature" series.
So expressions like "...it's a pity there's no stupid word on a fence or at least any word..." or "is 20:20 the time of execution?" are mere signs of yet immature and "stalled" perceptual system, which is quite normal for adolescent minds.
Surely, there can be conceptual bonds, even in White Robe, such as the white robe itself, but their presence is absolutely unnecessary, they can be totally absent. The one necessary thing is: music, lyrics and picture have to evoke emotions of the very same sort, and they do have to amplify these emotions collectively. Those of you who still didn't get it are ought to try to open your mind, as Obi Van in "Star Wars" did say. You'll succeed with 100% probability.
About meanings:
Artistic characters use to gain independence from their authors and live their own life, at their own will. That means any interpretations will do, any are correct. Different people see just different manifestations, so the author turns out to be just one of the witnesses after finishing his work of creation of those heroes. Therefore his own interpretations are not better and not worse than all other people's.
So, what this story is about, from my point of view.
In general - about the very same things all Tatu's videos tell in different ways - about love or its absence, about death as the eternal antithesis to love. Some people kill others in cold-blooded and well-organized manner. Furthermore, one of those killed - unborn human. Nothing can be worse. This is an utmost and weird absurd. Love has died amongst people who shoot pregnant women, and the evil has ultimately won. You can say this could never be, nobody shoot pregnant women.
Yes, probably it does not happen, but art is not limited to things that happen, it also could speak of what may happen when things are pushed to the limit...
Why should this be shown?
For the reason that people would have once again thought of the horror of death and evil and of the value of life and love.
About the plot:
To my mind the plot is clear and simple. This video doesn't contain anything random or meaningless. On the contrary - it has got hints that help you to stay on path:
"somewhere... in the 21st century...", "Department of Control", untressed hair, blurred make-up and torn stockings of "alive" Lena in the first half; military uniform of "polished" Lena with her blank stare in the second part, Yulia's white robe (noticed by everyone), firing squad's uniform resembling fascist's, guards resembling contemporary SWAT units, Lena's old-fashioned personal Mercedes...
Some hints are more obvious while some are less and meant to be captured not at the very first glance. This all is like an "eye-spy" game. A clip is not a movie which is normally seen once or twice. A clip uses to be shown dozens and hundreds of times so there are "secrets" to be hidden for the audience to be pleased to find even after numerous playbacks. You just need to watch it thoughtfully, without prejudicially considering authors idiots who've made a dull video stuffed with meaningless details.
When?
"... in the 21st century". Our days. Might be 2001 or may be 2021.
What is this age-pointing here for? It is to make clear - things happening on the screen have nothing to do with some abstractive fantasy of parallel worlds like "Lord of The Rings" and not thousand-year-remote future like "Star Wars". These things are what could happen in our time. Identifiable signs of different countries and peoples are interlaced in the clip in order to display the indefiniteness of the date of events, the datelessness (some things had been taken from the 20th century, but who of us hasn't got things from the 20th century...)
Where?
"Somewhere..." On the planet Earth, in the non-existing country, in the detention center of non-existing Ministry of Control.
What does this Department control?
It controls EVERITHING there.
Control as a synonym for violence.
It's a metaphor for the absolute evil that won.
What actually goes on there in the video, what's the plot?
Yulia's and Lena's characters lived on their own in that unreal world even before the beginning of the clip, without an idea of each other's life. Depicted events cover the last several hours before the punishment, when both girls head their own paths to the first and the last meeting of theirs. They even physically move to this meeting: one cuffed and guarded, the other leading a firing squad.
For Yulia's character, who is sentenced to death, the meeting ends up with physical double-death.
For Lena's character, the Department of Control member and a firing squad officer, it ends with death of spiritual kind.
No compromises, all dots are settled. I do positively disagree with those writing about the plot being unfinished or underexposed. I believe those people just haven't caught it and jumped to premature conclusions. The more complete story is really hard to imagine.
I would strongly advice to think once again...
to be continued...
Insider
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