Film Review #8

This week I watched a comedic music video by The Lonely Island entitled, "Threw It On The Ground." The song is a narrative about a man that goes through his day throwing things on the ground out suspicion that everyone he encounters is trying to invite to be a part of "the system." The song wasn't intended to be very serious, which allowed for a very fun music video to accompany it. With the song being written in the form of a narration, the video was made as a visual to what was being said, meaning everything that happens in the song is depicted in  the video, verbatim  That might normally cause a video to be pretty boring, however in "Threw It On The Ground" every time the protagonist threw something on the ground, there was a close up of it hitting the ground in slow motion. That made the music video a bit more dramatic and a lot more interesting to watch rather than if it was all shot in real time. When something was thrown on the ground in the chorus, the pace and rhythm changed in a way that flowed with the slow motion footage better than the original music would have. This drew more attention to the objects being thrown while simultaneously highlighting the drama and comedy in the music video. I'm a fan of The Lonely Island and I like this music video just as much as I like their others. It is very funny and it doesn't make too much sense. I wouldn't recommend this music video to anyone with a short tolerance for silliness, but everyone else should totally watch it.