In Caravan Palace’s music video Lone Digger, the viewer is started off with three identical dark blue cats dressed in dark blue and red jock jackets, light blue pants, and red sneakers walking towards a bar. They walk in unison on two legs like humans, hands in pockets. The small window of the door opens to reveal the lower face of a bull, presumably the bar bouncer. The middle cat licks his right paw, revealing animal tendencies despite being dressed and walking like humans, as the bull then opens up the door and lets them in. As the cats pass through the door, the last one through glances in slow motion at the bull who looks back, arms crossed and watching. Still in slow motion, the cat returns its gaze back to the front, reaching and pulling a comb out of his pocket as the bull closes the door behind them. The door’s neon symbol of the song’s album cover is reflected in one of the cat’s eyes as they draw near, before showing the three cats fixing themselves up before pushing the doors open. It opens up to a dark bar, dimly lit with neon lights. At the center, a gazelle dances in a caged cylinder, two alligators sitting right in front. The cats glance around, observing the various customers in the bar, all animals with human qualities. The cats start walking, the one in the front turns back and motions to the other two before jerking his head the dogs as the camera shifts to the middle doberman, who is looking at the approaching cats and puffs out an O-shaped ring of smoke in time with the music. The three cats leap into the seats of another round table and proceed to glower at the three doberman in the table right across. The obvious cat versus dog stereotype is shown here, but we aren’t given any more context to whether or not the two sides have deeper grudges, as it seems like the cats came into the bar looking for the dogs. The middle dog with the cigar narrows his eyes at the cats, but his two companions are occupied with the drinks. The zebra waitress servers the cats their drinks which can be assumed to be milk. The cats start downing shot glasses of milks, closely watched by the dogs. When the cats have finished their bottle, the dogs call for a waitress but trip her as she walks by, causing her to drop the tray and spill milk all over the three cats. Angered, the middle cat stands up and flips the table over, an obvious show of aggression. As the zebra picks herself off the floor, she is confronted with one of the snakes which has approached and assumed a striking pose, a display of predator versus prey. The snake is shown to be unable to restrain its predatory instincts when it sees a potential prey fallen on the ground, showing a lack of animal instinct restraint despite being dressed like humans. The cats and dogs walk up and stare eachother down as the bull starts dragging the snake away, but the cat flicks out its nails and slashes the dog across the neck, causing a bloody fight between the cats and dogs, with the bull and snake on the side. This causes blood to splatter over all the customers and the bar, as well as the gazelle who seems to be oblivious as she keeps dancing. After a bit more dancing, the gazelle slows down and turns around, finally realizing the blood everywhere and the bodies of all the customers sprawled on the ground, and the camera blacks out to end. This video seems to be a show of animalistic instincts and irony, as although the characters are all walking and dressed like humans in human environments, they still act like animals, shown by the cat that licked its paws. The cats and dogs still have the stereotypical feud, and the snake couldn’t contain her predatory instincts upon seeing the fallen zebra. The bloody scene can be taken as a pun or irony, as they can be considered to be animals despite their human characteristics as the fight breaks out, but similarly humans will commence in violent fights, and can be called “animals”. So this video about animals dressed like humans makes on think about humans that act like animals.
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