Motifs
- All of the killer's actions are in relation to the music video before it:
- "Pinion" shows a man drowned by a pipe - the killer forces the victim to drink from a petrol can.
- In "Wish", Trent Reznor screams "fist fuck" - the killer rewinds the video to that line several times, and begins to rub his fist.
- In "Help Me I Am In Hell", a person is shown eating - the killer tears the victim's teeth out.
- In "Happiness In Slavery", a person is tortured and killed.
- In "Gave Up", the victim is tortured and dismembered.
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Famous quotes containing the word motifs:
“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have “really happened,” or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”
—Northrop Frye (1912–1991)
“The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.”
—Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)