Potentially the most politically incorrect fan-made music video of all time
Iggy Pop & the Stooges – Search & Destroy
Well, it’s in the top ten at least. Not like it was a scientific survey…
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It actually got off to a pretty good start (some synchronization with sound and video), but it didn’t take long for it to unravel. But, yeah…pretty non-PC overall.
A powerful montage of clips from Vietnam snuff flicks. Or as Ebert would put it:
“What’s great in the video, and what will make it live for many years
and speak to many audiences, is what bohabb achieves on the levels Truffaut was discussing: the moments of agony and joy in making cinema. Some of those moments come at the same time; remember again the helicopter assault and its unsettling juxtaposition of horror and exhilaration. Remember the weird beauty of the massed helicopters lifting over the trees in the long shot, and the insane power of the Stooges’ music, played loudly during the attack, and you feel what bohabb was getting at: Those moments as common in life as art, when the whole huge grand mystery of the world, so terrible, so beautiful, seems to hang in the balance.”
Very incisive commentary–probably too good for this blog.