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I've only just now seen Rammstein's video for "Deutschland." First, so I can get my Potentially Annoying Feminist Critique out of the way, the only major woman character in it is symbolic, which seems a pattern with them: crack-addicted Snow White in Sonne, evil village girl in Rosenrot. This time, though, she's not a femme fatale but the personification of Germany. Oh yeah, and she's black; was that a conscious pissing-off-racists move? Regardless, she gets some seriously cool costumes. Anyway, the video has a mix of things alluding to different points in history of Germany, plus spacepunk/steampunk. The beginning introduces both ancient-looking peasants and astronauts, which gives this a sort of 2001: A Space Odyssey feel. And there are a lot of red laser beams. As an attempt to rearrange chronologically: -Primitive tribes enter what will be Germany -Medieval monks eat a lot of meat and keep prisoners under their table -Teutonic knights wield glowing swords and Germania gets some seriously cool gold chainmail/armor -Masonic meeting, for some reason -Gangsters, for some reason - they have a shootout and get captured by police who lock them up in neck braces and throw money at them -Nazis burn books and hang people but end up getting shot in a revolt -60s astronauts -Anti-police riot -Future astronauts - they maybe go into space in a trapezoidal prism Hmm, where are Martin Luther and the Berlin Wall? (And should Martin Luther sit on the Berlin Wall and eat a sandwich?) But nobody is saying this should be a "history of the entire germany, i guess" (bill wurtz reference). And mine is just a first impression. Maybe Luther and his wall are in there somewhere.
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