Video: Figurines "Back in the Day"

I've watched this video for Figurines' "Back in the Day" five times now and I still don't have a clue what the hell is supposed to be going on. If you can convincingly explain the point of this video, do so in the comments below and I'll mail you a secret prize. Seriously.
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5 Responses

March 9, 2007 at 12:49 p.m.

A couple have a baby via surrealist sexual methods. The kid then grows up and his parent's pass on their knowledge to them (when they shake, lose form) then he cuts him self off from them going for his independence and eventually his parent's pass on or are no longer around him. The child, now a man, is on his own and is trying to find what it is most people try to find in the world. The ear represents the many ways in which we "hear" things from others and absorb things culturally in order to find it is what our "calling" is or whatever you want to call it. And at the end he finds it. Basically it's a surrealist approach to the very standard coming of age story. You know, when artists make things more interesting and complicated then they have to be. Eh?

March 9, 2007 at 1:28 p.m.

Okay, I figured as much about the baby and breaking the parental bonds to forge out on your own, but I figure there's more to the whole bowing thing and the ear. I mean it looks like he's praying towards Mecca, so then I started racking my brain to try and find some religious significance of an ear in Islam and, well, I think I'm just overthinking it at this point...

March 9, 2007 at 2:18 p.m.

Yeah. I would say the religious thing would be getting too deep. I think he's crawling more. Like reverting back into a childlike state. Unless the red thread signifies that religion Madonna invented, er, I mean, completely commercialized and bastardized. Haha.

March 11, 2007 at 3:03 p.m.

So, um. Do I get a secret surprise in the mail, or what? Haha.

March 12, 2007 at 4:39 p.m.

It's the new indie dance craze in denmark, all the cool kids are doing it, this video is a 2d representation thereof.get back in the fridge, dad.

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