The Music Video
A music video was made for this song, directed by Mark Pellington and released on 27 August 1999. An extended version of the video has since surfaced. Trent Reznor and a large group of black-clothed men are seen running down empty streets, onto a train, and into a field. There are also shots of several elderly people, and a brief scene with a young woman. The video was filmed in Guadalajara, Mexico and in the dry lake of Sayula, Mexico.
The video is an homage to the 1927 Fritz Lang film Metropolis, using similar sets to that of the film and Reznor sporting the same costume and haircut as the workers in the film. Another influence seems to be the 1959 movie The 400 Blows directed by François Truffaut.
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