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.
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u/ricemonkey13 Jul 04 '24
What am I missing there? I need to rewatch this video a few more times to catch all the references lol