Music video analysis - "coming down" five finger death punch

Analysis

The song "coming down" by five finger death punch is about suicide and how it effects people and the video represents the song perfectly. It is about two teenagers who suffer from different kinds of problems including bullying and depression and shows them killing themselves at the start of the video. But afterwards it shows a story in which they are tormented by depression but for both one person prevents them from killing themselves without even knowing that they were planning to do so.

In the opening scene we see a male and a female preparing to end their lives. The male plans to end his with a gun which may represent the way in which he is treated by others, which is also shown, with unnecessary violence. The female uses an overdose of drugs which can be seen to represent an easy way out of society because society has mistreated her.

During the video whilst the guitar solo part is playing in the song, there is an animated part in which I believe that depression is perceived as a physical being which I think is very well done. This physical being is a huge monster which chases them around during their lives. This well represents the monster that depression is and no matter how hard they try to escape they can't do it alone.

I think that the video is done so well, it brings lots of attention to the problem that depression is and brings it into peoples eyes and gives them a real life impression of what depression is like. At the end of the video they have put in the suicide hotline. This represents the bands feelings towards the problem and shows its a problem that can be helped.