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LMAO, i just found a critical analysis for that video:

"A Frightened Boy" is a video by Joel Veitch, on his web site, Rathergood.com.

The video begins with a dreary landscape of gray buildings, brown earth, gray sky, and dark clouds. It is obviously supposed to represent post industrial England, where the author is from. You'll notice that it is a very polluted place- this would explain why all of the children are dead, except the boy, who is obviously a mutant (see how his head is almost as big as his body?) and thus immune. The boy is covered in chemicals, which make him entirely gray, and yet survives with his mutant powers, but, as a child, does not realize that he is immune to England's industrial waste. Obviously the author is making an urgent plea for the environment! The boy is joined by other mutants, crabs with strange and deformed heads, block people (called "pixel people" to represent that they are products of the environmentally hazardous computer age), and Brittany Spears (who is quite obviously deformed).

The clouds race by very fast, but the boy's mouth opens and closes only very, very slowly. This represents how the boy is trying to speak to the crabs, to ask them to dance in front of him, to let him join their joyous dance of "Mutants For A Clean Environment" (or M-FACE). The boy fears rejection from his fellow mutants, or hemorrhaging of his delicate, polluted organs, and so does not even turn around or speak, and can only occasionally blink his chemically blood-shot eyes in frustration. The crabs are calling the boy to join them, and they even ask him to dance and join in their acid rain techno party, but he is too frightened. The boy's fading away at the end is a powerful metaphor for how England's children (even the mutants) are lost in the mire of pollution.

This video also represents a battle between the conformists and non-conformists. The buildings of the boy's world are all exactly the same, and he does not wish to look at them, because then he will have to conform with the other children and "die". The crabs are obviously non-conformists, and Brittany Spears joins them for a private techno party for a temporary break from her own excessive conformity. When non-conformists get together and dance, they have a lot of fun, but the boy is frightened to be one of them, even as he is frightened to conform, and so has no one.

The music reflects both these themes: the sad music at the beginning represents the sadness of a polluted land and the sadness of being alone in non-conformity. The Italian opera music obviously represents non-conformity, and is certainly what we would expect a radioactively mutated crab to sing. The techno, along with showing the joys of the non-conformists, also represents what happens when opera is polluted. The slow music at the end is sad and reflects the loss of the boy to pollution, while being joyous enough to see that he never really conforms, hence "...whatever killed them has never come for him".

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also, here is the music

For the Frightened Boy one The tunes were: Cossack Patrol by Ivan Rebroff, Tanz Br Derchen by Hyperactive and Version by DMX Krew.

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it was pretty funny, just the contrast.. but i can why most people might think it sucks..

still, bookmarked it.

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I remember this from ages back. It's awesome for people who have an attraction to stuff that doesn't quite click immediately. The bizarre factor envelopes the twisted humor behind it, and I love that. :D

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