I
recently watched M83’s last installment to their music video trilogy. Early on music videos became narrative short films. Now it doesn’t
even matter if the song has any direct relation to the story or that the band
didn't appear in the video at all. The video became an entity unto itself, a
film of its own. Sometimes a story is epic enough to warrant a sequel, and
rarer —a trilogy.
M83’s
trilogy started with the song “Midnight City”.
In
this video we meet a group of children with special telekinetic powers
imprisoned in an asylum. However they escape for a short while and live like
regular kids until they are recaptured from the authorities and put back in
captivity in the second music video installment “Reunion”.
In
the final chapter “Wait” the story reaches a new level of abstraction.
I loved this
music video trilogy. It placed me in a different world. The shots were
breathtaking with the close-ups, landscapes, space travel, nature, etc. The end
of the trilogy wasn’t very conclusive but I liked how it left the story open to
interpretation.
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