Music Video Analysis - Concept

This is the music video for 21st Century breakdown. The whole video is done in a strange almost stop frame animation style of photographs made to look as though they are spray painted onto a wall. There are no cuts in this video as the camera simply moved around the wall and the paintings move around to show what's happening. This video contains no narrative but instead presents lots of imagery and symbolism to convey the message of the song. It shows planes flying over industry buildings dropping bombs in the shape of dollars and there are lots of people in suits shown arguing throughout the video. The video is very abstract and uses this to fit with the meaning of the song. There is typography in this video, that highlight important lyrics of the song, sometimes in a colour other than black and white to emphasize that particular line to the audience. All the different parts of the video are meant comment on society while the song points moves at a very fast pace through them, possibly to enforce the "breakdown" in the title of the song.