My interpretation is someone who suffers from mental illness.
The video depicts Florence with thick, black water running down her face and overflowing, which symbolizes black bile to me. Melancholy was believed to arise from black bile in the old days. In the video, she lifts out it and is momentarily happy, dancing and laughing and the woman who has been mopping up the bile seems to have a moment of peace where she can stop (shot of the mop still). Perhaps the old woman symbolizes the devotion of those that try to help in vain to lift her from her depression. The video ends with her being swallowed up again by her depression....but never let her go....she'll be back. :)
My interpretation is someone who suffers from mental illness.
The video depicts Florence with thick, black water running down her face and overflowing, which symbolizes black bile to me. Melancholy was believed to arise from black bile in the old days. In the video, she lifts out it and is momentarily happy, dancing and laughing and the woman who has been mopping up the bile seems to have a moment of peace where she can stop (shot of the mop still). Perhaps the old woman symbolizes the devotion of those that try to help in vain to lift her from her depression. The video ends with her being swallowed up again by her depression....but never let her go....she'll be back. :)
It's a beautiful song and the video captures what melancholy might look like.
It's a beautiful song and the video captures what melancholy might look like.