Can You Feel My Heart by Bring Me The Horizon is a video typical to metal genre. It is performance based video with a shocking side narrative of a male being chased by menacing hooded creatures which climaxes with the boy being held down and cut open. The performance shows a lot of close-ups of the lead singer Oli Sykes as it tries to connect with the audience, there are also close-ups and slow motions of the band playing to try to emphasize the importance of the instruments. The shots which involve the band play a lot with lighting, allowing it to be gloomy but at the same time have streaks of bright light, which I think my be symbolic of hope as the song and most of the album deal with issues such as suicide, so I think it may be trying to show that there is still hope. The main thing that makes you want to continue watching the video is the narrative.
Personally I think that the narrative is based around the lyric "I can't drown my demons; they know how to swim." as the creatures chasing the boy could be symbolic of how he is trying to fight his own demons, which is a subject that occurs in a lot of Bring Me The Horizon's music videos and songs e.g. It Never Ends which features the lyric 'you said this is suicide, I said this is a war, when I'm losing the battle' and shows Oli allowing the demonic people to kill him.
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