911 — Teletype

У Стефани новый клип, что-то с чем-то, напичкано столько, что я ничего не поняла в начале и полезла читать объяснение. Сохраню сюда чей-то коммент с пошаговым разбором. Оказалось, что там еще и Цвет Граната Сергея Параджанова...

Автор разбора Urizen

My attempt at reconstructing all the real world events metaphorically represented in the video:

0:13 - Stefani has been in an accident with her bike and she’s suffering from a concussion (the red sleeping mask) and a broken ankle (the red bracelet on it); Death (the dark horseman) begins alluring her;

0:46 - she begins hallucinating about the last things she saw before the accident (like the driver’s head banging on the airbag) and what’s happening around her in the real world;

0:49 - two firemen remove a door from the car;

0:54 - a bystander is watching the scene and checks on Stefani but she’s not responding;

1:07 - the male passenger is taken out of the car but he’s already dead, and the female passenger is mourning him;

1:09 - three other bystanders are watching the scene while a fireman is checking out the fire from the car’s engine (the cauldron);

1:17 - the paramedic and the doctor arrive on an helicopter (the umbrella);

1:19 - one of the bystanders takes a picture of it coming down;

1:36 - the paramedic checks the pulse of the male passenger and confirms he’s dead;

1:39 - the doctor covers the driver with a space blanket;

1:42 - Stefani loses consciousness (she puts a doll representing herself in a box, then a robotic arm covers our view of her for a second);

1:55 - the paramedic and a fireman give oxygen to the rich guy, who’s probably in shock;

1:57 - the doctor begins checking Stefani’s level of consciousness with a flashlight;

2:01 - she keeps slipping out of consciousness and is probably dying;

2:13 - the paramedic begins tourniqueting her leg;

2:17 - the pain brings her back to consciousness for a second;

2:18 - she begins having problems breathing (the headgear of the read dress represents a pair of lungs);

2:27 - the paramedic continues tourniqueting her leg;

2:31 - he begins giving her CPR;

(2:34 - on the fireman hat one can read “9-1-1” in Roman numbers;)

2:38 - she’s not reacting to CPR and stops breathing (she walks away following the dark horseman, and the “lungs headgear” is gone); meanwhile a fireman keeps under control the sparks (the petals) coming from the movie theater’s lights (the peacock) and two policemen direct traffic; (on the bottom right one can also see the broken hydrant that has been hit by the car;)

2:43 - the doctor checks her heartbeat;

2:45 - the paramedic finishes tourniqueting her leg but she’s going into cardiac arrest;

2:51 - he continues to give her CPR but to no avail;

2:57 - she goes into cardiac arrest (represented by the flowery dark green suit, which might allude to entering a vegetative state);

(3:00 - the Armenian word on the yellow tape means “caution”;)

3:04 - the paramedic brings in a defibrillator and two firemen put her on a stretcher;

3:20 - she’s on the brink of death (the dark horseman is now on a carousel horse as if he was having fun, and at 3:25 points a gun at her);

3:42 - the defibrillator is used on her and she‘s brought back to life.