Foals – Blue Blood

Music video with a special film language and elaborate progressively rising dramaturgy. We’re witnessing a rare and special event, that transcends everyday (school) life. Year 2010.

Story

A disorderly, neglected schoolboy awaits his chance to express his love at a school’s talent show. A crumpled sheet of paper with lyrics shows that he’s been preparing for this for a long time. He climbs on the stage wearing a hooded winter coat, which shows his introvertion and stage fright, he’s probably often bullied by other students. When the music starts, he slowly steps out of his shell by ignoring everybody around him and only sees his love. The world around him is as if it doesn’t exist. An interesting detail is, when he runs his fingers through his hair and then looks at them, because they’re filthy – a noticeable difference between the outside appearance and inwardness, which are very different; for a moment he is absorbed in his slovenly appearance and introverza trenutek se zamisli nad svojo zanemarjeno podobo ter introversion, but that doesn’t really disturb him from his act.  The scene in content (and choreography) reminds of a scene in the movie Napoleon Dynamite (2004), although in a different context (Vote for Pedro!).

The message

Are you brave enough to be who you are?

The outer beauty isn’t as important as the inner beauty. After all, we’re all just bodies with hidden contents. The exterior is just a surface camouflage… to express belonging to or standing out of (social) environment.