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2B — Thursday, March 26, 2015
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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW

The music video for Flor-

ence and the Machine’s “St 
Jude” off of 
How 
Big, 

How 
Blue, 

How 
Beau-

tiful is sim-
ply a perfect 
match to the 
slow, mourn-
ing 
sounds 

of the record. 
The music video moves flu-
idly, keeping a delayed pace 
in keeping with the song, and 
together they stir up an eerie, 
yet soothing, feeling.

The scene is set at dusk, and 

if not, at dawn. Viewers fol-
low Florence through several 
scenes in what appears to be 
an impoverished rural neigh-
borhood, filled with several 
New Testament references 
that I don’t understand, in 

addition to obvious allusions 
to the cross. While the video 
might be unclear in regard to 
what allusions or symbolism 
is present, just sensing that 
there is something deep in the 

video makes it all the more 
powerful.

“St Jude” closes as it begins, 

with a massive swarm of birds 
moving through the sky.

-KENNETH SELANDER

ISLAND RECORDS

A

St. Jude

Florce and 
the Machine

Island Records

TRAILER REVIEW

If there’s a checklist for ani-

mated movies, “Home,” the 
latest 
fea-

ture 
from 

DreamWorks, 
does its best 
to check all 
of them off 
during 
its 

first 
trailer. 

Outsider trying to make it in a 
new world? Anthropomorphic 
animals? An odd-couple pair-
ing of said outsider with some-
one else, in a relationship from 
which they’ll both undoubtedly 
emerge as better people? Check, 
check, check. The film pairs 
an isolated alien (Jim Parsons, 
TV’s “The Big Bang Theory”) 
and a young girl (Rihanna, 
“Battleship”) on a journey that 
apparently may threaten the 
human race, but at the very least 
will uproot the Eiffel Tower. 

The 
animation 
is 
impres-

sive enough, though it doesn’t 
appear significantly (if at all) 
better than anything else 
recently released. The humor 
of the film looks like it will 
ride heavily on the outsider-

unaware-of-human-customs 
gag, which might just do it for 
you if you’re a fan of Jim Par-
sons, but otherwise will most 
likely seem worn out. “Home” 
hits theaters on Mar. 27.

-CONRAD FOREMAN

20TH CENTURY FOX

C+

Home

20th Century Fox

