A cinderella story, of sorts, where a down-on-her-luck Carly Rae Jepsen imagines herself as a trumphant pop queen. Which is ironic, since she's indeed got those credentials in real life.
As any Bob Dylan could tell you, he is not to be trusted. Especially not in matters of love.
That point gets proven in this film noir homage that's as retro, and unexpected, as this cover of "The Night We Called It a Day" off his Frank Sinatra tribute album, Shadows In The Night.
Hell hath no fury like a furry. Directors David Wilson and Christy Karacas, of Adult Swim, presents an epic battle between lawless furry mascots and a resourceful convenience store clerk in a video so brutal that things occasionally flip to animation so as to accomodate all the gore.
Off goes the hair, on goes the bra and so Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield's gender-swap journey begins...
A honky tonk crowd greets him with uneasy stares that, of course, leads to outight brutality. But, there's an escape hatch of music, even if it's just in his mind... Soaring choreography transports him from the on-the-floor pummeling to a place where his tormentors are nothing more that a dance troupe ushering him to heaven, which in this case is a catharctic climax on-stage with Arcade Fire.
Hopefully he's also up there rocking with Hedwig...
