I like the video and I love the song, but if I'm being honest this is the first one where I don't really understand the story. It feels like a take-off on either caper films or some sort of comic-book crime fighting team, but I don't know if there's a reference I'm missing or what.
This doesn't hamper my enjoyment or anything, just an observation.
I really like this video, because, maybe it's my own interpretation and projecting, but I get a lot from it.
Break it down for you? Surely.
The key word to this whole thing is "subversive."
These antiheroes, though they are at various points on the white collar/blue collar spectrum and the respective organizational hierarchies have something in common. They have the need to dissipate life's pressures with various acts of collective subversion. Crime-fighting? Hardly. They are out to kick at the knee caps of society.
So, when the pressure is there, they band together to secretly blow off the steam before retreating back to the workaday world.
Now, remember "subversive," and let me break it down even more. You have these elements: Tom Scharpling, Portland, an otherwise upstanding citizen who has these moments of rebellion/anarchy, and, in one of the scenes, you can see a Dane Cook DVD.
That's right! This is also Tom's subversive tribute to Mr. Brooks. Tom, like the antiheroes of the video, is saying to the Man "You know what? Yeah, you can make me do this job, film your video, but I got my own ideas, too."
That's the way I see it.
Great video.
