Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Heath Ledger's Symbolic "Cause an Effect" Music Video


I had been waiting for some of Heath Ledger's music videos he directed before his death to be released online so thanks a lot to the emailer for the link. Was anyone really expecting that at least one of them would not be full of the usual symbolism of one eye, black/white duality (+ red; fire/blood/primal), symbolic makeup/mask-like stuff. He directed this video 'Cause an Effect' ('cause & effect' is quite dualistic) for London based 'No Fixed Abode' shortly before becoming the 'Joker' for The Dark Knight and then his untimely demise occurred whilst filming the ultra-occult (and mind control symbolic, even says the words 'mind control' in it; looking forward to doing a substantive post on the film when it's released on Blu Ray) 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'.










His Modest Mouse video has less symbolism, because it is going for a political message (anti-whaling) rather than the previous video which was purely artistic/symbolic, though it has the odd bit of symbolism (the sun face, which sets after symbolically setting enough to show only one eye [eye of Horus/Ra/sun] then sets all the way down in disgust at what they are doing to the humans). The roles are reversed so Whales act as humans as they catch and skin humans alive before turning them into ginger bread type men and feeding to their sea lion pets.








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