Analysis and Jumping

Before I start, I have decided to change my song and video to analyze to "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers and how it was used in the movie The Holiday. This song is alot closer to me and actually have a clip that I can put it to.

This song is about a man who has a suspicion that his girlfriend is cheating on him with another man, and eventually finds her doing what he had a fear of. "I'm coming out of my cage/and I've been doing just fine/gotta gotta be down/because I want it all. It started out with a kiss/it was only a kiss/it was only a kiss" It all starts out happy and in love, with him being completely unaware of what pain will befall him. The story in the song describes his situation like this: "Now I'm falling asleep/and she's calling a cab/while he's having a smoke/and she's taking a drag." He feels as though when he is going to sleep, or even just not aware of what is going on, that something is going on behind his back. He feels as though something is wrong, like he can't trust the woman that he is with and that she may be sneaking away with another lover. In his mind, he can see the scenario going down, and it is plaguing him beyond belief. "Now they're going to bed/and my stomach is sick/and it's all in my head/but she's touching his chest now./He takes off her dress now./ Let me go. I just can't look/it's killing me/and taking control." The sense comes over him and engulfs his life, he can't think of anything but this, and he can't help it, he wants to escape this mental torture but he can't find a way out of it. He finds himself trapped by his own feelings of love and his fear of finding her with another man. The next verse, "Jealousy, turning saints into the sea/swimming through sick lullabies/choking on your alibis. But it's just the price I pay/ Destiny is calling me./ Open up my eager eyes/ 'Cause I'm Mister Brightside." This line shows that his girlfriend is lying to him, giving him all matters of fake sentiments and words of love, and that he has to wade through it as though it were a churning ocean, constantly pushing and pulling on his heartstrings. He tries to see the brighter side of it all, to see better in her and to trust her, but he can't do it and wants someone to open his eyes to all that is going on.

This can be found mirrored in the plot of The Holiday. In the scene in which this song plays, one of the leading ladies has just arrived to a home in which she is vacationing to get away from her hectic life in the city and escape exactly what this song portrays: a relationship in which one party is unfaithful. Prior to her vacation she had been rather unsure about him, but the truth had finally come out now and she sings puts this song on and sings it as a lament for what she's gone through. She sings it with a look of anger and frustration upon her face, letting out all of the hurt that she has been through.