Focused Analysis : Characters
This is the music video for Beautiful by Christina Aguilera. I chose this video for my focused analysis on characters, as throughout the video, there are a number of characters that all represent something, and have their own storyline going on. They all begin the video feeling glum over personal issues involving society's way of judging them. Theres the anorexic girl, weightlifting young boy, model who feels worthless, goth punk guy, transvestite and gay couple who all go through the motions in the video, but towards the end, end up smiling. The large number of different characters are used to get the songs message out to the audience, to show a variety of people who all are rejected by society in one way or another, and through believing the songs message, know that they are beautiful, no matter what. It is supposed to be able to relate to the audience in some way, and with lots of characters, will be more effective.
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