I really liked this video too but I didn't really understand it that much. All I know is that it's supposed to be a reference, or tribute even, to a movie called Metropolis that was made in 1927.



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I don't wanna sound too cliche, but after watching the video a few times I think it's safe to say there's numerous ways of perceiving it. So there likely aren't many, if any wrong ways to interpret the scenes you described, Cryosin. I'm sorry I can't give a better explanation at the moment. But hopefully that gave you some more insight.

^I love the Angel video (and analogue (?) drums)

Theres two versions of this video out there, both are great. But I'm curious about the symbolism too. Reznor wouldnt just throw out empty imagery. I cant think of a post-Closer video without it.



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i personally think this video was made just so the average mtv viewer remembered the name of the artist and bought the album (who? nine inch nails? what? the fragile?)

BenAkenobi posted:

i personally think this video was made just so the average mtv viewer remembered the name of the artist and bought the album (who? nine inch nails? what? the fragile?)

Ya so people would buy his albums and he could become a multi-millionare right?

He hit the epitome of consumer-raping after releasing The Slip.

/end sarcasm

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This was the first Nine Inch Nails video I bought to put on my iPod.

There is one overall meaning to me, from the song and from the video. And I'll explain this one overall meaning by using one expression: Hanging on by a thread.

When you're being pushed to the breaking point, you can accomplish great things. Humans, in general, are this way in nature. In the video, Trent and a thousand others are running from something. It doesn't matter what that thing is... to me they're running away from something epic, maybe humanity, maybe the apocalypse. Maybe even from their own minor problems, maybe running from their past and the horrible things in it. Maybe they're running for their future. Trent looks worried, though, and I think that he's trying really hard to make it; thus hanging on by a thread. Life sucks sometimes, and we all run from it in different ways.

The Indians in the video are somewhat surprising to me; I didn't really expect to see them. But Native Indians, to me, have a wise, nurting quality to them. A sort of caring and understanding that only someone who has been through a lot could understand. And they also seem to live the simple life. I'm not referencing to modern-day Natives, just saying that, in general, I think the peace and simplicity of the Native American race is slowly dying in today's world. And in the video We're In This Together, I think that all of the characters are really only one character - Trent. Sort of like a delusional thing, like Into The Void. "Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping." "Talking to myself all the way to the station..." They are a thousand of him facing a thousand different problems. And now they're running to find the 'simple life', that of the Natives. They're running away from the chaos that is their old world.

I agree with Ferabad, though; I don't think there is one overall extreme meaning. This is just my interpretation. I have thought of this video having different meanings before, but I like this one. I also think of it all as a love-relationship. Maybe one with problems. And one that they obviously have been through trials together and they have finally come to the realization that they'll always be together. Whether in this life or the next. This idea is a little off of the video, but its' my other favorite.

So there's some of my interpretations. Hope you enjoyed. Awesome vid, probably my favorite NIN video.

Metropolis is a cool movie, what with all the workers being treated as subhuman, wearing the same clothes, being shoved around in elevators and stuff, I can see the similarities. And the girl fits in also as a sort of modern Maria, who was the hero/female savior of the workers in Metropolis.

Probably my favorite music video by NIN.

Just like the song, I think the video is about the effects of abandonment and instability...falling apart I don't think it's "we're in this together because i love you", I see it more as "we're in this together, right? everything will be okay, please don't fall apart, please don't leave me" (hope that makes sense).

I always saw the elderly as one of the "wretched" described earlier in the album. The mass people people running represents a situation that you cling on to after being abandoned, or as Trent described "a situation that is flawed, and could fall apart at any moment". In the video Trent looks confused and lost. You don't know where you're going with the situation, but it's the only thing you have. In end, you end up abandoned and alone once again.

Just my two cents/



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I like the unedited cut where you can see a lot of naked guys running and jumping in the desert at the end.

ningamer posted:

...Just like the song, I think the video is about the effects of abandonment and instability...falling apart I don't think it's "we're in this together because i love you", I see it more as "we're in this together, right? everything will be okay, please don't fall apart, please don't leave me" (hope that makes sense)...

Awesome. I agree.