Marilyn Manson's dreadful longing A very fine line separates this four-minute clip from a natural horror movie. Surrealism in Marilyn Manson has always turned out to be excellent due to successful allegories and the author’s peculiar gloom. Dark tones, contrasting with the white makeup of the performer, will always cause the audience either sympathy or antipathy. The third is simply not given.
The bold, provocative images so characteristic of Manson make a particularly chilling impression here. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the first viewers has worsened signs of epilepsy – a cold, locked naked person who has tasted an apple, for some reason referring not to Eden, but to Sodom, is on the verge of life and death. If you do not go into the details, which are full of almost every word, then this song and this clip are devoted to murderous longing. Gloomy, hopeless, but in its own way beautiful. The ability to charm with gloom is something that began to be appreciated only from the end of the XX century, relatively recently. Fans of dark branches from any genre, whether it is fantasy, drama or science fiction, will be delighted.
In addition to the above, such works, even if they last only a few minutes (especially a few minutes), are a good opportunity to test your psyche for resilience. Will they not give up their nerves, will they have enough patience to see to the end? For an untrained viewer, this is not so easy. But after watching, everyone will have something to think about, and simple life joys, which sometimes have no place in creativity, will seem especially bright and inspiring. Like I said, it’s either sympathy or antipathy.
In my case, sympathy won, but in conclusion I state it as a fact: it is gloomy. Too much.
7 out of 10