Radiohead - Knives Out
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- Опубликовано: 22 янв 2015
- ‘Knives Out’ is taken from ‘Amnesiac’ out on XL Recordings. Buy & stream it here: radiohead.ffm.to/amnesiac
Director: Michel Gondry
Art Direction: Pierre Pell
Cinematographer: Jean-Louis Bompoint
Production Company: Partizan
Commissioner: Dilly Gent
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Radiohead: **writes depressing song about someone leaving their family and cannibalism**
Also Radiohead: *S K E L E T O N P L A Y I N G G U I T A R*
*T H O M Y O R K E M O U S E*
XD
@@sappy2303 he does kind of look like a mouse though lol
Trueeeee
Bad family dynamics played out through uncorrected personality traits, not cannibalism..
I wouldn't be very surprised if one day Thom Yorke would just walk up the stage and say "to be honest guys, there is no real meaning behind our music. We just like weird things."
It`s like an artist says the same thing, we just don`t give a fuck, that`s art dude
I'd laugh.
Radiohead's music means a lot to me but if they came out saying that I'd laugh
That's exactly how the Paranoid Android video is. There's no meaning to it. Just a bunch of weird stuff, I love it though. The song itself if amazing.
Every song and every video has its meaning and its backstory, and yes even the paranoid android one. The execution is most of the time just very artfull and hard to comprehend.
Radioheads music and videos are as far away from meaningless as the sun is from the earth
Contemporary music?
Fun fact, the female actor in this is actually the wife to the main illustrator from the gorillaz, Jamie Hewlet
That's really fuckin cool
¿¡"female" actor?! 😮🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
oh man i wish there was a word for a ''female actor''
@@zackzallie8735 actress
@@amarillo6685 lul
This is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to what a dream looks (feels?) like ; in TV or movies, dreams are usually depicted as linear, even when they’re supposed to be “weird” in the context of the story. Hope that makes sense; I love this song.
this clip is so good, there's a lot of symbolism in it. It really feels like it's an actual recording from a dream.
I think Daydreaming also does a really good job of capturing the disjointed, ethereal nature of a dream. But yes, this is good.
❤❤❤
Watch Un Chien Andalou (1929). People have been doing the non-linear dream thing for nearly 100 years.
@@frenchbaguetteoui
there is also a movie from the director of Citizen Kane, everything is oversized or have no sense at all in that movie but they all act like nothing weird is going on, very dreamy
these dudes are just insanely talented
if you want to survive you need to be insane in this world.
insane can be a good thing.
Yeah like one of them's a skeleton and can still play guitar well
@@jasonbarbush4991 Shut up weirdo.. i think you mean crazy. Nobody would want to literally be insane, ok? Crazy is the cool quirky one, ya look at us bunches crazy goofs, up to no good; It's ok cuz I'm quirky.
@@hankwylderson7196 what
"If you'd been a dog, they would've drowned you at birth." Damn, that's brutal
Sounds like pub banter to me ! 🤣
@@jessicahainesmusic I don't see how it does but ok
Well its not pop meaningless song
@@Watcher4111 shutup
It's this uplifting vibe that makes me listen to Radiohead whenever I feel depressed.
I've just watched "Knives Out" 2019 and this song was playing in my head during the whole movie.
was pretty happy to know the movie is literally named after the track.
That's good
It's named after the song. I went to the set and the movie's working title was "Morning Bell", the next track on Amnesiac.
@@GabrielMartinGeller I mean, it wouldn't fit...
Yooo SAME 😭😂
I get this song is sad but I really can’t help but laugh when he looks down and his feet are rotisserie chickens with a family around and then the look on his face is brilliant
It's not funny but downright disturbing
The part where Thom and Emma look at the footage of them fighting each other, turn to each other and go : D was sorta funny in a weird way
It’s even more hilarious out of context
right that, the mouse and the skeleton aways makes me laugh quite a lot even though im trying so hard to keep the mood serious
@@Watcher4111 bro what its funny as shit
amnesiac is such a underrated album it’s honestly my favourite
amnesiac slaps harder than a redneck after i tell him a funny joke
@@amanofpotatoes2176 that's funny
What's underrated about it? Is it really underrated? Where? By what people???
@@mistereddie77It’s not that well known in the mainstream and in Radiohead’s fanbase a lot of people tend to overlook it compared to In Rainbows, Kid A, OK Computer, etc
It's rated really, really highly. Is it actually underrated?
This song is fucking beautiful.
Everything that radiohead does is fucking beautiful
OFB
Not to mention this Gondry masterpiece.
It's also motherfucking ethereal and shit-kickingly pretty.
@@blahblahblahblahbla2705 I love his music videos (and movies).
Michel Gondry is famous for doing as much as he can on screen, without any kind of post production trickery.
He really brought a skeleton to life and taught it how to play guitar and shrunk Thom down into a mouse/microphone hybrid for this music video.
Yeah I remember that this was on the OK hails to the king of moon shaped amnesiac kid rainbows honey bends
humour is strange as Radiohead songs :))
And people say magic isn't real.
we will shrink and then be quiet as mice...
yeah rumour has it that Christopher Nolan will blow a real atom bomb for Oppenheimer, since he's known for the same thing
Lyrics:
I want you to know
He's not coming back
Look in to my eyes
I'm not coming back
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Don't look down
Shove it in your mouth
If you'd been a dog
They would've drowned you at birth
Look into my eyes
It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth
So knives out
Cook him up
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
I want you to know
He's not coming back
He's bloated and frozen
Still there's no point in letting it go to waste
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
nothing really goes to waste when it all ends up somewhere.
A couple in a dire situation... The man starves... His voice in her head wants her to survive.
Thanks
@@floepiejaneit's so confusing, this one. But I guess that's a helpful description. Some of their lyrics are so perplexing. What does the mouse represent? What's with the dog comment?
If I caught a mouse that looked like Thom Yorke I would nurture it and love it.
Shayna Barbour youll meet that very mouse but it wont look almost close but not quite as cute as york. oh well, sorry mousy so it goes... later it will turn out that it was really Tom after all just hoping to meet you. a great encounter... in a way... hardly your fault...
garettj25 What about Modest Mouse?
So, pretty much any mouse?
DoctorDistracto Do you think Thom Yorke looks like a mouse? If so that's an Adorable Hot Mouse!
Shayna Barbour Just avoid shoving it in your mouth.
thom looks like van Gogh lol
He is van Gogh of music
Gogh to hell
@@elvise19 ¹¹
Sings just like him too
I think hee looks like Rorschach from Watchmen movie.
It's weird how if you don't actually read the lyrics to Radiohead songs, you can make up the weirdest shit on your own.
And the actual lyrics will probably be just as weird, just with 80% more depression
@@acreativename7999 Lol it'll always be depressing the song never sounds fun
Truuuue
Oh on airbag with the n word phrase at “I’m back to save the universe”
@@itsfripe5 he's back to say it.
"All your dreams have meanings"
My dreams:
When I'm feel myself depressed,Radiohead makes me feel good,when I'm feeling good,Radiohead throw me back to depression.
Love this guys
You know an artist is genius simply
by the fact you can have a song like this playing in your head for over a week and not get sick of it. On the contrary, it’s a deep emotional experience every time.
The "Knives Out" music video was directed by Michel Gondry. Gondry was going through a breakup at the time, and expressed his feelings in the video concept, which has Yorke grieving in a hospital room. Gondry described the collaboration as a "terrible experience", and said: "I showed [Yorke] a storyboard and every single detail: he was completely excited and happy for it - and then, it turned out, they all criticise me for being selfish and putting my own views on it and my own introspection ... It did not go smoothly, but if it went smoothly, it would be mediocre."[8]
You copy and pasted that from Wikipedia
@@izetyusein3323 and what? still interesting
Gondry is my favorite music video director. Hes always interested by dreams, dreamworlds, Daydreaming...
Interesting. I can understand both sides. If you write a song and have a strong vision about its meaning of course you'd like the video to resonate with that. Then again, why hire a director with a strong personal vision in the first place if you're not willing to trust that to some degree?
I don't think Knives Out is my favorite Radiohead music video but it's definitely an interesting one nonetheless.
kind of weird for a band to be that rude about it when so much of the lyrics are abstract, symbolic and even further literally garbled and mumbled. i think a lot of us have different interpretations of their songs because listening to something like this or idiotheque is like looking at the artwork that accompanies each album, its always very abstract and so on so each person is going to have their own personal relationship with it. but Thom & Johnny Greenwood have had a reputation for being unreasonable and kind of petulant, i think its a tradition with some uk rockers, drawing from that john lennon and morrissey/marr energy i guess
This song perfectly captures insomnia imo. There's something about the instrumentation and the reverb on Thoms voice that sonically represents the feeling of being up at 3am.
This is perfect for my melancholy coffee breaks while thinking about my regrets
Rule #1 when listening to Radiohead: Don't question it.
Rule #2: If you do have any questions, please refer to rule #1.
+Just Here For The RUclips Exactly! haha
I feel like this song is just about the things people are able to put each other through and are willing to go through in relationships, like the train scene where they're beating on each other and then he gives her the ring because ultimately we want love that lasts but when they look at their past it's they both look kind of embarrassed and ashamed of the things they've said and done. Who knows who the song pertains to for Thom, and maybe I'm way off but that's how I've always heard this song, so it doesn't seem all that strange to me
+Christofer Phisher That's a very interesting analysis!
+Christopher Phisher Well "“Knives Out” is not exactly cruelty. Let’s rather say that to express some feelings, I can’t help but use some violent vocabulary. “Knives Out” was inspired by several different situations. I think the important thing is not that it sounds violent but rather that I try to express specific moments that I have experienced in my life: I transcribe them again, especially those I’ve been through in the music business. It doesn’t hurt many people when someone disappears, they can always take advantage of what remains. In short, the lyrics are more violent than the feelings behind them. The song is also about the death of the people close to me. Each song tries to elucidates things that I don’t understand. “Knives Out” is especially brutal because it is a desperate attempt at solving something very complicated for me." - Thom Yorke
It's not don't worry :) it has many meanings since it's trying to solve complicated stuff. I was just giving you a tool to understand it since I, myself, don't understand it completely :)
And the new album is so good *.* especially daydreaming I absolutely love it. And decks dark
David Lynch likes this.
Do you have any proof
Or Jodorovsky. (better said Radiohead LOVES Jodorovsky).
@@LuisMedinaInformador Or Buñuel. (better said Jodorovsky LOVES Buñuel).
is this the british healthcare system
I can't watch this anymore without thinking about Thom's partner Rachel dying from cancer last year. Shit... I just wanna give Thom Yorke a big hug right now. I'm so sorry for your loss.
I think about it a lot
yeah its a bit like that... wonder what he thinks of this video now....heard he dident like it at the time.
That's heavy.
Makes that ASMP of true love waits particularly heartbreaking. Pretty beautiful thing to do, after the live version on “I might be wrong” I figured that wouldn’t come around again.
But man they pulled it off. But with a totally different emotional weight.
Michel Gondry is the best
2:25 this part sounds incredibly nostalgic. I have no idea why. Something about the melody.
I always thought the same thing! It's like i heard it before a long time ago but can't remember where or when
for me it's probably the fact that the guitar timbre sounds awfully like that one in the guitar solo for don't panic by coldplay, which is a song i was heavily surrounded by when i was extremely little. also the melodies sound a little similar, especially those intervals in the beginning. idk, just wanted to share my experience with it
There’s an undeniable quality of longing and nostalgia no doubt. I feel that in how to disappear and exit music and videotape as well.
And “free in the knowledge.”
@@lightbreathermusic “it sounds like, …like a fridge buzzing?” -Thom Yorke
Same !
Bilie Eilish : I can make weirdest video clip
Radiohead : Hold my depression
this comparison sounds funny in hindsight considering Thom has stated before that he likes Billie Eilish's music, which tbh her debut album was a pretty decent art pop record.
@@lnlonelyness6021 Thom like depressing music...whaa
@@jsheav3n I’m so surprised as well lmao
It's surreal but humourous though.
His face on a plush bunny 🐇
very underrated album.
Definitely
my fave
Troy Johnson no the public loves them, ghe critics love them.
MrMinusguy ok computer ya but in rainbows doesn't get enough love sometimes
MrMinusguy Well ok Computer is a true musical masterpiece. One of the greatest albums ever. To me amnesiac feels like a bunch of Kid A after thoughts. I do love songs like knives out and pyramid song but they just seem incomplete. In rainbows is very underrated and deserves so much more love than it gets.
Very similar chords to Paranoid Android's intro, however a completely different song. Both are great :)
ArchieG I thought the same lol
all Radiohead music is interconnected like a science of itself
Same with "There There" and "Go Slowly"
I'm AMAZED someone else notivced that.
Guitar player I reckon?
ArchieG no
2:24 I heard this in my art class. So beautiful
This song captures grief and despair like nothing I've ever heard before
*yells into the yonder*
Art is not always meant to be understood. and that's what Radiohead is.
Or is it? That is the question.
MontherTheGamer stfu
I understand it... in my own way, that is.
It is meant to be felt
The Star Children. Lol. Gods.
The guitar in this song is wonderful
3:41 ese e mi raton, se llama Tomyork
Love this song. The mood, the great lyrics, the beautiful guitar parts. There were many great songs on Amnesiac but I think this song is the peak.
Life in a glasshouse betta I fear
@@ryanmeredith4620 I like it too. Love the New Orleans vibe in that one. The whole album is great but Knives Out just resonates the most with me due to the beautiful guitar patterns, more interesting chord structure and lyrics that are one of my favorites from all of Radiohead's discography.
Symbolism...symbolism everywhere
metaphor, allegory somewhere
Tell me what the symbolism is!
Ashton, animals with human heads, hands and feet on the train, woman romantically kissing anatomical heart instead of cupid heart, child fantasizing about a tray of food, woman on operating table is being PROCESSED without pain killers or local, for each pound of flesh removed, a tray of food is produced. My favorite part is the fighting scene on the train. Most couples fight because of infidelity or lack of resources, right, no big deal. Now when you take in consideration Abraham Maslo Pyramid of Needs (pyramid song) as you watch the couples changing behavior, you'll see (hopefully in time) the line they both crossed to momentarily find happiness. To satisfy the lowest level of the pyramid, they can no longer consider other people as human beings - the animals with the human heads. Thom used recent historic references for this forecast, but if you are clever, you can find them yourself. Winter is coming.
Its about canibalism.
@@ashtonnn777 canibalism.
Everyone is commenting about how "weird" the video is. And that's what they wanted, they wanted the video to be funny and weird to cover up how sad the song/video both are. If you look past the goofy things and look at the big picture, it's really depressing. This may be one of the saddest music videos I've ever seen.
Caps_Unlocked i agree
The part at 1:25 always gets to me
With the heart that refuses
More than funny I find the video dream-like. It's a masterpiece IMO.
It's mesmerising. Did you notice the background scenery change when the big ring was unboxed? I do not fully understand it but it keeps me in awe.
This almost sounded so delightfully elitist 😂
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Best band of my generation...Im 38 years old. Get into it!
Agreed, tool are the only band I put on par. And Floyd I guess
I'm 43. There first album came out when I was 11.
What I miss the most about these older Radiohead songs is this particular jazz drum style that Phil used to incorporate more of. Similar ones to Dollars and Cents, and Where I End and You Begin
hypnotic guitar solo
Kinda jeff buckley-ish. It's haunting
Almost psychedelic
Almost psychotic
the "solo" you speak of is 3 guitars playing
one of the most sad and scary songs ever made
Those two words sum it up for me too.
and the music video is so god damn fitting
He literally sang his heart out.
This is exactly what it feels like to live in a dream.
This band is just plain genius! Everything they make musically always has some sort of different spin and is always original. There are so many bands that try to emulate them but nobody will ever come close. These guys are true pioneers.
how are you doing 10 yrs later
@@miaalicea521 16th like on yr 11
underrated single, fantastic guitar melody and mood! they should play this more often (um, at least sometimes) live :I
Why do you people call shit thats known around the globe and sold to MILLIONS "underrated"?
they don’t play it live since 2008 :(
@@fellowdanbarber3323 How can be "underrated" a single that is considered by the wide critic to be one of the best singles ever written in the history of rock?
Anwer: In the comment sections people do just write shit just because they can write for free.
you have a point but who is this wide critic you speak of
@@delriobookclub224 him probs lol
It's amazing how Radiohead songs can haunt you in the first few notes.
One of my favorite songs. Bad memories, great melodies.
I don't know how many times I've heard this song. Radiohead is unique.
Perfect in a unique way
Raquel López Pastor yesss. ..
*became
Bojack Horseman what do you mean: "became perfect assholes"?
I want you to know
He's not coming back
Look in to my eyes
I'm not coming back
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Don't look down
Shove it in your mouth
If you'd been a dog
They would've drowned you at birth
Look into my eyes
It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth
So knives out
Cook him up
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
I want you to know
He's not coming back
He's bloated and frozen
Still there's no point in letting it go to waste
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
Are these Morrissey lyrics
León DlR 😃
I finally understand what’s going on now. The imagery, the lyrics, the message; it’s all clear now. I love you Thom. I don’t know you, but I love you for making me love myself. You’re not alone. Neither am I.
;`
Instead of eyes i believe he says mouth but other than that looks good
this melody is so weird. very uncomfortable. I love it
My favorite song ever ......why does everyone think I'm depressed?!!
I have many friends who have said the same...I can't listen to Radiohead its too depressing; where I am like this keeps from being too depressed
@@sherlockjt I guess it's just the way people work :) My friends are exactly the same, either this or that.
When I have psychotic episodes, they tend to look like this.
I've never had a psychotic episode but I dream fantastically and I feel in that way I can possibly relate. I hope that you feel peaceful and happy.
he probably can not, if he has psychotic episodes.
me too
same
ur gay
This music video perfectly (and I mean as perfectly as I've witnessed consciously) captures the spiroadic, jerky, muddled, convoluted nature of dreams. It's insane, trying to turn your head to see the image again, but it never quite appears the same...
Ears: So beautiful
Eyes: So weird...
I always see you in Radiohead videos coment section.
@@rachelvillarim3279 yeah im a big fan :p
Your telling me jc is fan of radiohead?
@@whoknows8101 you got that fucking right 😎
Comment : So unliked !
Michel Gondry is a genius
many geniuses in the world were ridiculed but they still kept on.
next level
being a bipolar, Thom speaks what I'm feeling..
This song i dont know why but its the most beautiful saddest song ive ever heard
Nobody:
The Bowling Alley Screen when you get a strike: 3:19
Rockford the Roe ahhshaa
I need a gif of that
Best Comment!
Yknow this is one of my favorite Radiohead songs. My dog passed last year and this song is still my number one to listen to when I think of him. The disconnected tones and the concept that the one you love will never be back; as morbid as it is, helped me really grieve to where i could recover easier.
I view this as a very angry portion of a breakup. The ending of a relationship where you have scorned the person leaving you.
Parker Martin It just sounds like cannibalism to me.
I'm always grateful to have known this incredible band❤️
Unparalleled enchantment, radiohead N1 in the world and for the year 2000, the quality is made.
If you really need some sort of explaination of this video here is my interpretation. (English as a second language so bare with me). First of all you have to know a bit of the style and themes of Michel Gondry(the director). The song's lyrics and the video's story are quite a bit separate.
This is a continuous shot so some shots are static to give time for things out of shot to come to place.
What happens on the TV is a memory.
First of all we have a trip, a train and a happy couple on the train. We have photos and drawings depicting the couple. Then we se the Guy on the low bed looking worried and the camera turns to the Girl who is clearly sick (And on an Operation bed.) The doctor comes in with some bad news as Thom grabs his head.
They operate on her, she suffers. The camera pans to the TV again, He puts her photograph in his heart (maybe when he falls in love with her, or maybe is the moment of "you will never leave my heart/I will never forget you" and is not a memory.) then they start fighting.
Then he is in the low bed again and his feet are being cooked and he thinks they're about to eat his feet? (This is the part that seems most out of place from the "story" and seems to parallel the lyrics a bit more. Still quite dreamlike.)
The room becomes chaos, she continues to suffer, they do all kinds of tests.
The train now has extremities like feet, hands, etc...
They fight in the train, he asks her to marry him and this is the moment where she falls ill. He then presses Rewind back to where they didn't fight.
There is a shot of the diamond on the bed under a spotlight, this could have many interpretations and I think each should have its own.
She's gone, most probably died.
Then he's singing as a skeleton, he has no body left (nobody left?) he's singing from his heart (which has replaced his mind) and the photograph (the memory of her) floats away.
Then Thom is the microphone, which is a mouse, this simply relates to the lyrics and again is one of those dreamlike elements that gondry loves.
okay.. thanks.. pretty straight forward makes a lot of sense.
AMProductions Totally Brilliant Thank You!
Just pisses me off that the video wasn't allowed to be included in the directors series.
Could be true
To be fair....
This song always makes me feel like I'm high as f 😂
I love how Radiohead turn there videos as if a real life event is going on. No band like them.
The way the lead guitar weaves it’s way through this song is so wonderfully reminiscent of Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison.
The big ass fridge or whatever and the skeleton got me fucking dying 💀
"I want you to know",only this one phrase drives me to have a heavy heart.For the first time in about 2 years this song came to my mind.Thom is a genius in the end.
2:05
Pokemon
Squashes heads
Put him in the park
So good
can we just take a moment to talk about the elephants drawing at 0:17? XD
Axel Zambrano Some says that was Ed's paint while drunk.
i want to believe that's true
Dream Robot lol
Axel Zambrano There is so much stuff in the video that I didn't even notice it the first few time hahaha.
and the others at 0:25
one of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard and i dont even know what hes saying.
Beatiful song....
the fact that this describes EXACTLY how my dreams look/feel like makes me love this song even more, i guess that's why it's my favorite
3:48 whaddaheeeelllll 💀💀😭😭🤨💀💀
Perfect companion to Paranoid Android. The chords are almost exact.
Yeah I’m surprised nobody was talking about how the chords sound very similar to PA
Directed by Michel Gondry. I love how his videos have a dreamlike quality that go with the songs so well.
I've loved Radiohead with all my heart from the very beginning. Loved the ride so far.
good song to cry and hate your life to
he is such an artist, i started watching this video mid video as i had the music playing in the background, and at first i was like "wtf is even happening" but then i understood the artisty in this video, spoke to me, i understood
Who's such an artist?
probably Michel Gondry
The melody and the structure of this song embrace you in some warm strange way. It's incredible. No other band could ever give you a feeling like this.
Hi I recommend a song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix
@@redskies4530That was a nice call, my friend. Not a perfect Song, especially in the quality of the sound, but still a good piece of advice. You have good taste. Let me know if you got something else.
@@davideroca9910 Another Bond song 'Spectre' by Radiohead
Still listening, beautiful guitar work here
One of my most fav songs of all time.
Para mi esta canción se refiere a una persona que ha sido lastimada a más no poder , con un corazón totalmente destrozado.. y por eso dice que esa persona que un día fue.. ya no volverá más. Que puede agarrar el cuchillo y cortarla, es cuando una persona ha sufrido tanto que se vuelve piedra.. no siente más dolor, la coraza es más fuerte .. es triste .. me pasó una vez y supere mi depresión llorando todas las noches con esta canción..
Bonito mensaje :)
Knives out es una expresión de los cirujanos en el quirófano cuando ya no hay nada que hacer para salvar a una persona en la mesa de operaciones... Cuchillos fuera... Tipo paren no hay nada más qur hacer 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 Igual en las relaciones de pareja... Es mi soundtrack justo ahora
"Knives Out"
I want you to know
He's not coming back
Look into my eyes
I'm not coming back
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Don't look down
Shove it in your mouth
If you'd been a dog
They would've drowned you at birth
Look into my eyes
It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth
So knives out
Cook him up
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
I want you to know
He's not coming back
He's bloated and frozen
Still there's no point in letting it go to waste
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
You look sad
This music video is like eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets a limmy sketch I love it
when you wake up from a weird dream that you struggle to remember all day in flashes and glimpses and it gnaws at you constantly, that's what Radiohead videos are like
Easily the best thing Michel Gondry has ever produced, the video matches the tone of the song perfectly and it's as creative as the music Radiohead produce
Godrich*
Michel Gondry and Radiohead = perfect match. This is brilliant, one of my favorite RH songs too.
This is EXACTLY what it feels like to be in the hospital for something life threatening.
What an absolute masterpiece!
Here's my take on the meaning:
I think the train and television represent the past and what it meant to the protagonist.
In the first clip he and his girlfriend are sitting pleasantly together while the train is moving through a green and peaceful countryside environment. They're holding hands and showing affection while they make photos of each other to preserve this memory. It's romantic. Life is good. He's the girl's Favorite Person.
The camera moves, cycles through the room repeatedly, after every cycle leaves the world a more painful place.
Now, life's still good. We see the two lovers as twin elephants, trunks enmeshed. Almost mirrored individuals.
(take note, thus enmeshed, it can be difficult to spot where the first elephant ends and the other begins)
The protagonist is moving on the floor, on a bed, as he demonstrates his freedom to move around. It seems to imply he is a visitor, there not for himself but for someone else. He's supporting /emotionally supplying his girlfriend. Behind him we see two drawings of innocent animals with the photo of his girl. A fish, which may represent her free-spirited nature, and a deer, which may represent her innocence.
The elephants, fish and deer - they're just depictions. representations. It's not reality.
The girl then is lying on an operation table that looks like a children's game.
Maybe this implies its to her, ultimately, all just a game.
More and more people come in the room. She's becoming the complete and utter center of attention, while the boy is worried and left to his own devices. Medical props are put on the bed, and the protagonist is holding hands, letter the girl bite into his hands in response to her pain. He is hurt because she is hurting.
More and more people come in, to focus on the girl. To care for her, do household chores (bringing new towels et al)
The camera moves back to the television. We see the protagonist with a very big heart that he opens to the girl, putting the picture he took from the girl in the earlier shot in his heart. The girl almost childlike gives him a big intimate kiss, but he pushes her away gently, gently hits her, and she hits him back just as gently. The train's surroundings have become urban with a hint of a reddish mountain-like background behind it. Here I think we see the first glimmer of what's really happening. Some more urban environments and regular mountains follow.
We see the protagonist with his feet encased in what appears to be ovens. He can't go away any longer.
Behind him, we see a child staring at a photo that resembles a full-color ultrasound scan. Maybe this child is the reason why he is so imprisoned. He can't leave this girl, because there's now a boy in his life that he has become responsible for. Their child. Their son. (Their bun in the oven?)
He is in actual significant pain, his mobility thus removed, beating his head repeatedly at his pillow.
As he introspects, looks under below his covers, he sees how his very feet have been replaced with oven-baked chicken, and the woman he sees just cheer at the thought of eating him, having their knives out in anticipation of the feast. The protagonist looks up in shock.
We see a last shot of the child, but quickly the camera moves back to the girl, with more and more people surrounding her. She's the center of the chaos. No longer do we see anything medical that can help with her game-like condition. The only thing placed on the table are trays of food. More and more it becomes apparent that it's a game at the protagonist's expense. It becomes a utter chaos, the child is no longer in the picture. Everybody tries to help, but it really doesn't in any way change the condition of the girl. It just doesn't do any good.
The camera moves back to the train, we see how the wagons are filled with body parts. It is presumed these are all cut off from the protagonist.
In the train itself, we see how the girl lashes at the protagonist with - oh so poetically - a knife, while he tries to hammer sense into her. we see an urban environment as background in this shot, with mountain background. When the girl stop attacking, the protagonist stops as well, and instantly opens the box with a ring in it. (He still has that earlier picture of her in his heart). At this moment the background changes from urban to mountainous... to a gruesome feast of ribs and bloodied body parts. By this time its clear that this was the protagonist's.
The girl inspects the ring, looking at it from all sides, and directly afterwards.. feels the debilitating hurt inside, apparently caused by this ultimate act of love from the protagonist, almost as of a fear of engulfment comes into play.
The protagonist is eager to help, worried for her, at this time. He just loves her.
The tape is rewound. The protagonist and girl in the train reflect on their part behavior, almost in shock at first, but when we come to the earliest moments of their interactions (the lovebombing phase) the main character is the first to break a smile to the girl. And she immediately mirrors him with her cat-like smile.
The camera moves back to the protagonist's bed, to reveal it is empty. Only thing left is the ring. He's there no longer.
The camera moves on, the operating table is no longer there. The girl is out of the picture.
All that's left is the protagonist. Completely eaten up. Only thing left is his big heart, he's just a skeleton playing the guitar. There's nothing more left of the man he once was. The photo of the girl is removed from his heart.
At the end shot, you see the protagonist, no longer as a strong man. He is transformed into a little mouse, a shadow of his former self, while going over the backgrounds of the train over and over and over again. At this point "him and the girl" are out of the picture.
The song texts seem to refer to the same theme and so complement the video. He's had enough. He's not coming back. She needs to physically look into his face - I'm guessing she's just incredibly good at getting people's emotions when looking at them directly. It's her way of knowing if someone is honest with her. He's prepared to accept the inevitable splitting and fall-out of his neuro-divergent girlfriend.
dude wrote a wholeass novel 😂
Great interpretation!
you took too much space on comment section
When you talked about chicken, it reminded me of a phrase in Paranoid Android: "... from all these unborn chicken voices in my head".
Not reading all of that
Just so so so good I can't believe this..
lead guitar line 🤤
Hi I recommend a song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix
this music feels like a hug
favorite frame: 1:45
this is not medically accurate
Yes. anyone fancy a game of MB operation?
Are you a doctor?
Closer than you think
It isn't meant to be.
Alex Manning who are you to decide that, a doctor? get outta here fam ™™™™™™
almost a year in such a mentally abusive relationship , today is the day where finally the relationship has gotten so infected and damaged i'll probably be left.. and this song couldn't make more sense.
The problem is YOU. YOUR attitude and YOUR choices.
I can tell a shallow puddle when I see one, and you're the type who seems happy so long as they have something to be miserable about.
Jack Lefou haha what?
Natalie Naturelle hello Natalie...Brad-how are you?we are virtually acquainted in cyberspace now my dear..ain't that some shit~anyways,you are divine luv~hope you have escaped from your prior mentioned calamity as it were-integrity intact hopefully at that..I'm the coolest guy you've never met -and could very well restore your faith in humanity if the opportunity were to somehow manifest..I would surely put forth the effort..I reside in Atlanta,ga.-midtown area-thats where the fun is.where artist/musician vagabonds clash with corporate transgendered mind-erased millennials and frighten the hell out of them for shits and giggles by confounding their dillusional existence with selectively placed tidbits of reality not normally found in mainstreamed information format..and yes-it is quite entertaining at the very least..wish you were here~
shadow williams fucking weird guy you mate
My dad had this on the TV when I was about 9 or 10 and I don't know how I knew it was RadioHead. Glad I was able to find it.
the guitar riffs and sound are so getting my feelings i love it so much
The fact that I kinda understood the video worries me
Lol. Same.
This is one of the most Michel Gondry Michel Gondry videos ever.