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2B — Thursday, March 26, 2015
b-side
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