To Hell and Back

   The music video that I am going to analyze is entitled, "To Hell and Back" by Blessthefall.
The story of the video is that of a suffering woman and this video has some similarities of the mainstream music video portrayal of women.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LRrV_GQ62w


   To start this off her life sucks and she is very helpless and relies on drugs to get her away from her painful life. She is also anorexic and in result, she is constantly worried about her appearance which leads her into a deeper, darker hole.
   One other similarity she has is her helpless and very dependent on her man. When her man isn't there with her she is hysterical and in constant need of him. But when he IS there he beats her. It's obvious that he is in total control of her and this hopelessness is driving her over the edge.
   She injects herself with a syringe which I'm assuming its heroin. One thing that I would like to point out is that she injects the heroin into one of her wounds caused by her man. This is a sign that she could be doing heroin because of her man. The wounds she has are caused by him, another reason why she is not in control.
   At the beginning and end of the video a butterfly is show. At the end of the video the butterfly is dead, she once was a butterfly but now that butterfly is dead and gone.