Ok, snakes turn to butterflies. Following outside an apartment. Trouble in paradise? Misunderstandings. Something isn’t clicking. Neither party seems in a good place. She leaves. Enters a hallway. Very strange to be honest. Where is she? Seems like something is off from the get-go.
Anyone else reminded of the Wizard of Oz’s Emerald Palace? And is she wearing sparkly red shoes? Are those shadows fighting? This seems to be some sort of nightmare scenario she’s stuck in dealing with her ghosts, peoples thoughts on her, maybe past relationships, or previous versions of herself. As soon as she leaves, there’s a significant outfit change.
Look at the background. There is a rainbow outside of the glass sphere that they are in. I know other people have touched on this before, but, we also get a peek of it when she’s on the hallway before leaving, and in the beginning when the butterfly is looking into the apartment. She’s trapped somewhere though. I immediately go back to thinking of how Dorothy kept searching for her home, and she literally fell out of the sky when she landed in Oz. Seems like a lot of people are falling from the sky. Particularly men. Men in dark colored suits almost funeral-esque, especially compared to the women in the bright colors.
Clearer imagery of this environment she’s in. Almost as if Brendan’s character is trying to get her to stay, luring her in with a colorful atmosphere and giving her everything she could ever want (ie. look how happy all the other women are). She’s eventually persuaded and they seem to fall through a vortex. Fell down the rabbit hole vibes for sure. (Will add these screenshots later). It cuts to a very loved up environment, with literal Cupid’s making up the band — the show must go on? They are snapped out of it and now seems like a very us against the world moment. Surrounded by everyone else in a different color.
Here’s the rainbow again, but this time it literally shoots up through the glass globe. Then they’re traveling again through another vortex, and a dance number ensues. They seem to be encouraging each other and are actually genuinely happier compared to earlier.
It ends with her kicking her heels, and Brendan giving her that nudge. Now they fall through the glass dome; it shatters, and the world they were in seems turned off. No people around except them. The whole town gives off a very Pleasantville/Truman show vibe. The veil is lifted. Makes you wonder — were they not living in the real world before? Where were they?
The literal rainbow shoots through the shattered glass. Their outfits change, and so does their environment. For a moment it looks disastrous, but it’s not — it’s joyful, and happy! They realize they’re free.
Aside from the nods to previous eras, various musical theatre references, etc., I think this is a theory worth noting. After all, @taylorswift said it herself, she loves a good metaphor.
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