Posts tagged Born To Die
Lana Del Rey is basically everywhere right now, so we’re jumping on the bandwagon and honouring her success the only way we do best - with a Love Machine Screencap Review…
The video opens on this scene of Lana hugging a man with lots of tattoos in front of an American flag. Very patriotic.
We then see Lana sitting apathetically on a throne in some fancy church palace thing with her pet tigers…
…before the scene switches to Lana meeting up with Tattoo Guy in the middle of nowhere under a rather ominous sky.
Amazing flower hat crown alert!
Lana and Tattoo Guy get all up on each other (as the kids say) in the car, which doesn’t look really big enough for the purpose.
A shot of a fancy ceiling.
Lana and Tattoo Guy smoke a roll up cigarette that may or may not have extra ingredients in. We don’t know. We don’t like to speculate.
In the church palace, one of Lana’s tigers quite fancies a bathroom break.
Tattoo Guy makes gun fingers at Lana’s head…
…and then gets quite forceful and she doesn’t look like she’s having fun anymore.
The scene changes to Lana lying on a bed. We get funeral home vibes from the flowers.
Suddenly, Tattoo Guy appears behind her on the bed…
…but Lana doesn’t seem happy to see him. Maybe she prefers being the Big Spoon?
They get off the bed and Lana stands in front of a door looking like a tragic bride while Tattoo Guy stands in the background looking sinister.
Then they get in a car and drive down a dark road. Watch out for random boulders.
Lana dramatically wipes condensation from her window. We do this in the car too, and pretend we’re in a music video. We’re jealous of Lana living our dream.
Tattoo Guy is lingering in the background again with that sinister air about him.
Church palace Queen Lana makes a cut-throat gesture with her thumb.
Back in the car, Tattoo Guy stops driving to kiss Lana instead. Boulders or no boulders, this is not going to end well :(
Another gratuitous ceiling shot.
Queen Lana’s tigers are lying down looking thoroughly bored. Or maybe they’re sad. Because they know this story won’t have a happy ending. Can tigers sense death? Or is that strictly a dog thing?
More ceiling porn. Seriously - what’s with all the ceiling shots?
Lana walks down a fancy corridor. Where is she going? No one knows.
An inevitable conclusion :( And really quite graphic actually. There should be a Parental Advisory sticker over her FACE.
The camera zooms out, silhouetting Tattoo Guy against the flames. Epic.
The video ends as it began. We don’t understand the significance, but it’s nice to complete the circle.
And that, as they say, is that. But what do we think of the video as a whole? Well, it’s cinematically wonderful really. Very sumptuous and dramatic and dark - kinda like how Lady Gaga used to be when her videos were as brilliant as the ‘Paparazzi’ one. Well done, Lana.
