Analysis of the Video:
The use of slow motion is beautiful throughout the entire video. There's use of fast motion during the driving scene.
The use of discontinued editing is so precise it looks completely seamless.
Close up are also used to symbolise things and add empathise on a particular moment:
Some of them are clsoe ups of her face, in order to show her emtion, to connect herself to the lyrics, as if the song is speaking her feelings. There are other of a blunt and smoke, as reference to her use of drug and as if it was like a relife of some sort or her way of expressing their happy moments together when they used to get intoxicated with one another. There's a few of one when her holding/pulling away from a man's hand. It to me is the symbolise of love and war. Loving someone you can't be with. Its like an internal conflict she faces, but here se actually shows it through the proformance. That is a example of the use of symbolic techiques.
I have noticed about roughly 8 bases tracks, but some are mosre predominate then others.
Theres the use of special effect like for instance the scene with the walking burning man:
Now the message about the video I gathered:
Its about her past relationship, in particular with Chris Brown. I feel as though the song is about them, referring to the two as diamonds. The scene with the sea is a symbolism of how deep her emotions are and that its so hard for her to get to the depth of her feelings. Though they didn't end in the best of ways, she still wants him to do well in life within his fame and what not. It feels like its her way of saying to the media, fair enough he messed up but everyone is at fault one time or another and you learn from it, that they dont understand that though he hurt her, she will still want the best for him, when everyone clearly wants her to have nothing to do with him. She accepts that they will never be the same but that doesn't mean a frienship can't blossom. Theres lots of reference of drugs, implying the participation of the use of them they used to do together, "moonshine / molly / ecstasy" indicating that it made them better and stronger as a person when using them, they had no care in the word, it was like them against the world.
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