Monday, 30 September 2013

Pink family portrait music video analysis

In the music video for Family Portrait, Pink plays a young woman who still has unresolved issues with her parents' divorce. This is represented by a little girl representing Pink as a child. Throughout the video, Pink's younger self tries to get her to address her childhood, in many ways such as making her eat cereal she liked as a child and interfering with her therapy session. Pink initially refuses to listen to her younger self until the song's bridge. After that, Pink comes to terms with her childhood as represented by her younger self joining the family in the television.
However, it looks more like if Pink`s is going through divorce and her daughter is refusing to believe in it. In the end she choses the "fake happiness" - the family in the TV. "In our family portrait we look pretty happy, we look pretty normal, lets go back to that". A family portrait doesn`t hold emotions, it is totally fake.
The music video starts with a tilt down on Pink lying on her bed, she seems really annoyed. A little girl starts singing. We can see close ups of both Pink and girl, which shows us their emotions. 
Some of the shots are the direct visualisation of the lyrics, when a girl is talking to her dad we can see him in the shot talking to her mom. Girls are dressed up in exactly the same way, which emphasises that they are both not feeling good about this divorce and also that a girl is a small copy of her mother. 



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