Unkle - Rabbit in your headlights

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I know, this board shouldnt be a board where everyone posts Youtube links... But this video impressed me.

 

 

 

Maybe you have seen it, maybe not. In 2006, Stylus magazine ranked it number one on their list of the top 100 music videos of all time.

 

 

 

This video was highly controversial, and even banned at MTV.

 

[hide=Source]One for the roadkill - Banned ! UNKLE's "Rabbit in your headlights" has been judged even more terrible than "Smack my [bleep] up". But they still let Lorraine Kelly on the airwaves. Crazy world. - The video for UNKLE's "Rabbit in your headlights" features an insane man walking through an underground tunnel being repeadedly mown down by traffic. At the end he tekes off his coat and destroys the next car that hits me. You won't be able to see it though, because MTV have refused to show the clip.

 

"The idea is obviously controversial", says the video's outraged director Jonathan Glazer, "which was wy agreed to make certain compromises for MTV. Firstly, they said they'd show it if we pixelated the collisions and, because so many people had worked on it and we really wanted it to be seen, we agreed. And they still refused to show it because the actor playing the madman was too unnerving and subversive. They won't show the video because the actor is too good ! What they are saying is anyone on the edge of society shouldn't be seen on television."

 

Taking the ban as the work of mental pygmies, Glazer's final words are worthy of Thom Yorke himself : "MTV's definition of the "Real world" is four models living together in a luxury flat", he sneers. "They seem perfectly happy to show videos featuring models who look like they're on heroin, but the UNKLE video isn't fashion pain or panto punk. Maybe I should have stuck the actor in a Stussy Parka." (SELECT) [/hide]

 

 

 

Time for the video itself, try to concentrate on the man and what he is going through.

 

 

 

Unkle - Rabbit in your Headlights

 

 

 

[hide=After you have seen it... (My opinion)]To me, it is one of the best videos I have ever seen. No one cares about the insane man, living on the edge of society. At the end, he is so sick of everyone that he makes himself undestructable.[/hide]

 

 

 

Thoughts?