The beginning focus of the video is Lorde the artist that
features in it for the first 12 seconds there is no singing just the music
going along with the music. It looks like a very futuristic maybe even out of
this wold setting this is because of the two red moons. As it moves in close to
the woman in the shot the scenery can be seen that it is on a high landscape
next to a pool. This shot shows the over view of a city that seems to have two
search helicopters moving over it. It is showing there is a dark and slow paced
introduction to the song. It begins with a slow paced music style and the
lyrics match this by beginning with ‘never really felt bad about it’ this
instigates the fact that there is another thing that is going to feature that
is not a good thing. Then as she begins to sing she moves away from the pool
side and then begins to walk it then pans to a shot of a house. However it
shows a moon in the background which could represent her coming back to
reality. It shows Lorde moving in towards the house and then changes to a shot
at a party it shows a man and a woman stood together talking to people. The
lyrics begin to say ‘I was wondering about you and that girl is she your
girlfriend’ this indicates that the man in the shot is in a relationship with
the girl he is stood next to then it changes to a shot of the same man and
Lorde walking into a room to him. The music then suddenly drops as she walks to
him at a faster pace and then kisses him this relates to the first set of
lyrics this is because she said ‘never
really felt bad about it’ this could mean that it relates to how she and him re
having an affair together. As this happens the lyrics carry on but this is
different as she is actually singing along to them. Then the shot changes to
the man and his wife and then keeps on having shot reverse shot between Lorde
and him being with his wife. At 1.50 the shot changes to Lorde and the man
being in a bedroom walk in closet they are running and moving quickly with each
other indicating that they are trying to hide from his wife. It then changes to
a shot of the wife looking out of the window you only know it is the wife when
the shot pans around to her face and as she turns around you see the man coming
out of the shower as he wipes his face with a towel. It then shows a shot of
the back of Lorde in a long black coat again she is singling along to match the
lyrics. From 2.11 until 2.35 it just shows Lorde dancing and singing as she
moves along a glass corridor that then leads to the swimming pool side that she
was stood at in the beginning of the video. It then shows as she emerges from
the corridor a man tied to a chair you only realise that it is the man when the
shot pans around and shows his panicked face. It then shows as she comes out
from the corridor the wife stood there in similar dark makeup to Lorde’s and
then has shot interchanging between the flash backs to the night and other
events throughout the music video. The key lyrics that feature through the
video are ‘let’s embrace the point of no return’ this keeps on linking back to
the shot of them when the firms met as just the two of them this is
representing the point of no return. At 3.00 it shows her singing ‘let’s
embrace the point of no return’ into his face and it looks like she is shouting
at him as she does this it shows her
grabbing the chair that he is ties to and pushing him backwards into the
pool. Once she does this she then lights a lighter and throws it into the pool
it then ignites the water which indicates that it was flammable. In the final
shot is shows Lorde’s face looking into the flames.
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