【翻译】Chris对Mon Amour Mon Ami的MV的解释

但是我们在视频中的死亡还有另一深层的含义。交响金属的潮流已经退去，我们进入了一个已经存在多年的完全不同的时期。音乐创作带来的收益愈发降低，但同时给我们尝试更夸张创新、开启更疯狂项目的机遇。除了录制新专辑之外，我们开始实现更复杂更具挑战的设想。
所以在一段时间之内，我们正如你们所知的那样一点点杀死乐队。很久没出常规的新专辑之后，我们尝试了一张疯狂的法语专辑（对于我们自己和乐迷都是很大的挑战），在那之后我们开启了摇滚歌剧这一旨在让我们自己、乐迷和其他对乐队还不熟悉的人都能够满意的项目。在完成制作和巡演的时候，就好像是一趟艰难的沙漠之旅终于要结束一般，我们或将迎来一股对交响金属的怀旧热潮。这样说来，乐队象征意义上的死亡直到如凯布里*一般重生。身在阴间的我们向居住在那里的灵魂学习音乐的魔法，你可以看到视频中女孩们协同巫师为我们举行仪式，助我们踏上征程。
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khepri
概念中还有一重含义就是，让女人凌辱虐待男人。直到今天我还没有见到一条对此表示抗议的评论。人们不喜欢这支视频的原因会有很多，比如对于暴力本身的反感，但是据我所知并没有一人特别指出这种反感是由于女性作为施暴者。现在我们想象一下，如果将二者角色互换，让乐队里的男人们去杀死女人们，你能否想象得到那样将会有多少愤怒的批评和不平衡的控告？

所以在最后，你可以认为这支视频中包含女权主义的成分。强烈谴责以那些低俗音乐视频中男性沙文主义瘾君子们的行为为代表的，我在这些年中见到过的一切男人的恶劣行为，比如有些乐队中已有家事的男性乐手在巡演中和女粉丝在巴士车上乱搞。我所认识的大部分音乐人都是很好很酷的人，但是也有那些我不曾谋面的道德败坏的人也自称为音乐人。
但是在表达女权主义的同时（基于倾向于认为大部分音乐人为男性的基础之上），我仍存在疑虑，既然女权主义呼吁的只是两性的“平等”，那么为何在很多情况下女性常常被过度保护、区别对待。这在你们所居住的许多国家中也许并不构成问题，但是在瑞典这的确造成了一定困扰。通过这一作品，我希望在展现我个人价值观的同时，也反映出我所生活的社会环境。
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Some funny facts about the "Mon amour mon ami" clip:
1. From when I first had the idea to the time when we could realise the filming of it, 3 of the other guys had broken up with their girlfriends. In the the end it was only me who had a girlfriend. So we had to get other girls acting as their partners.
2. Thomas was VERY uncomfortable with the cutting his throat scene. I would take an ordinary kitchen knife and unsharp it against a rock outside the yard. But it was still ri...pping a bit and she had to push to make it look more real. But as the fantastic artist he is, he clenched and did it with verve.
3. Everything was shot at Villa Adulruna, except Lori’s scene, which was shot at her hotel room in Portugal some hours before we went to play at the festival there. The guy she murdered (which Carlos directed in a way to tribute the one and only Hitchcock) was filmed in Chile afterwards.
4. Everyone could choose for them selves in what way they wanted to die and then I would write a murder scene for each of them:
Nalle said he wanted to drown. Many think of that as the least horrible way to die. I pictured a scene where he would give his life willingly, maybe as a part of some morbid deal to save someone else.
Christian of course wanted to be shot. No surprise to anyone who knows him. smile emoticon
And it was a great idea to put Linnea into the plot. The way I pictured it, she is just contracted to shoot him, she’s not personally in league with the other murdering girlfriends. Hired singer, hired killer. Makes sense, doesn’t it?
Johan wanted to be suffocated and as I already had sadistic plans (that could be interpreted sexually) for him for the coming initials BB clip, I though I’d stick to the theme and have him set up for a ”sexy time with bonus surprise” scene. Of course shamelessly inspired by the movie Basic Instinct.
Thomas said he just wanted a quick and fearless death. So a fast strike from behind. But he didn’t say anything about what he wanted to happen with his body afterwards. Big mistake… grin emoticon
As for my self, I of course wanted it to be very dramatic and to be done in my favourite room in my house; the library. So I opted for being poisoned via a glass of absinthe. A mixture of a classic opera scene and something Baudelarian. But death is never as pretty as some may imagine it. Especially not when Baudelaire has something to say about it (read his poem ”The corpse”). So in the end I vomit and die on the floor in front of the toilet. While being humiliated by my killer.
I don’t remember how we came up with Loris murder of that unknown boy. But she is anyway separated from the Villa Adulruna murder team connected to that spiritual journey. So she had to play the role of a typical american psychotic serial killer in the way it’s pictured in the Hollywood movies.

好吧。。。他们都没闲着。。。看完解释还是蛮有意思的。。。