This is one of my favourite music videos and it is The 1975- Robbers, directed by Tim Mattia. Although it is a very recent video, I really enjoy watching it due to its narrative especially. I think the acting from the lead singer 'Matthew Healy' and the woman in the video, model 'Chelsea Schuhman' is superb and I can feel that there is a real connection between the pair in the video.
The video is about Matty and Chelsea who are lovers, who rob a shop to obtain money to fund their alcohol and drug addiction. The video shows how the drugs and alcohol sometimes affect Matty in the wrong way and he becomes tempered at times, but despite this, the love shown between the two overcomes the side effects. Near to the end of the song, when the pair go to rob the shop, Matty is shot and is instantly taken back outside by his lover to a van, driven by the rest of the band. He is being treated in the back whilst still doing drugs and the part I like about this is that the camera shows different points of the video that we had seen at the beginning which helps to explain the situation that is happening. For example, there is a blooded handprint shown on the side of their home near the beginning is re-shown when Matty is being taken back into the home and his blooded hand creates the handprint after he has been shot. This is a great use of foreshadowing in my opinion.
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