24 April 2009

Chicane's "No Ordinary Morning"

When I discovered the video (after having been familiar with the song), I was struck by this particular interpretation of the lyrics. A man leaves a woman. A woman chases a second man through a parking garage with her BMW. He escapes narrowly. At the top of the garage, the sun has set and the woman gets out of a car, approaching the first man who left her. He is now holding a bottle of champagne. The man and woman embrace and share a moment of intimacy. She throws the bottle of champagne over the edge, which dissolves into nothing upon hitting the concrete. And then she pushes him from the parking structure. He grabs her arm and she falls with him. But what is striking is the ending, after the "cut." Both the first man and the woman land on a air pillow. She is congratulated by her crew. The first man walks to a set trailer and glares at her intensely, as if in the "real" world he is the one in her position.