the future’s so bright…

current events-pertinent: the latest, deeply ironic scissor sisters video, a pastiche video where many things are happening. I became obsessed with one part, at about 2:01, where two people are tied to a chair and dogs run by, paper-doll scissor sisters playing and mushroom-clouds clouding behind them all the while. I asked Jake Shears and Babydaddy about it a couple of weeks ago, and they answered. Cryptically.
Me: “In your video, there’s that part with the man and the woman and then a couple of rottweilers run by. Does that come from your interest in film and symbolism?”
Jake: “It’s all nonsense. With that video, we are suggesting a greater story, but it’s up to one’s imagination to figure out that story.”
Babydaddy: “Like what you would see on a movie poster. The greatest moments from a film that would end up on a movie poster.”
Jake: “There is a story that links the whole video. There is a vague plot. It has to do with The Man Without a Face. But it’s up to you to figure it out.”