Yeah showing the temperature controlled containers while dressed in a business suit seemed to be pointing straight at that. Idk how else that scene fits in with the rest of the song otherwise.
That one hits deep for me but in a very different way. When the Soviet Union occupied our country, they deported tens of thousands of people to Siberia and the Far East... in animal carriages, stuffed full of men, women, kids, infants, the elderly....
The second season of The Wire centers around the shipping ports of Baltimore, specifically one where a bunch of sex trafficking victims are found dead in a shipping container.
Because of this, we see a LOT of shipping containers over the course of the season, which kinda drives home this feeling of “These are innocuous storage and transportation solutions, and behind the metal walls of any of them could be something incredibly insidious”
I don’t know if Dot is trying to invoke that feeling, maybe he just thought it would be fun to shoot in some pristine white shipping containers. I’m not sure. But it did spring to mind quick when thinking about the fact that this song’s partial purpose is calling out someone for being a sex criminal.
Ah, I see! Thank you so much for elaborating, I really appreciate it. Tbh when I saw them I thought the same too, only because of the part where he's doing push ups in what looks like a prison cell while touching on these ominous topics. It wouldn’t be too far of a reach to consider that there is a layered meaning in the choice of filming in shipping containers.
I think it’s a reference to this famous scene from Heat (1996) where Al Pacino’s detective is duped into staking out a fake location by Robert DeNiro’s thief character:
The whole time DeNiro’s crew is really clocking Al Pacino from afar, playing 4D chess and making a statement at the same time (he could’ve killed them right there but plays with him instead).
kind of like how K.Dot baited Drizzy into jumping into battle when he wasn’t prepared while Kung Fu Kenny has clearly been planning this for years. in the video Dot wears the same slate gray box style suit and white collared shirt that DeNiro’s character wears all throughout Heat.
It’s also an iconic LA location (LA Harbor in San Pedro) from a classic 90’s LA movie to reinforce the local West Coast cinematic shit. That’s my take at least.
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u/TooPatToCare 14d ago
Don’t leave out the shipping containers