Bitter Cherry – Hunger Short Film Review

alexjames96
Jun 3
2 min read

★★★

The music video for Hunger is a rock song by Bitter Cherry and portrays a woman who meets a guy at a bar, and they really start to hit it off. Spending a lot of time together, partying and sharing drinks, their relationship develops at a rapid rate. However, the audience can see that as the relationship progresses, the boyfriend’s controlling behaviour begins to emerge forcing her away from her close friends and becoming extremely dependent on him. A gothic and edgy music video that brings in strong themes of vampirism and demonic possession, and feeds into this controlling aspect of the narrative giving the video a dramatic and strong message to all.

Apart from the song playing over the video, there is no dialogue to this music video, we see the characters speaking with one another but are unable to make out their conversations. However, through expressions and body language alone it becomes very obvious the direction of the narrative, this was great way in which to see the story unfold through expressions alone, therefore, the acting needed to have a lot of exaggeration. In parts this was good but occasionally it became too much and we needed to bring it back to the central storyline, occasionally this overacting appeared cheesy.

It was enjoyable to see this crossover of demonic and gothic imagery combined with the manipulation and controlling behaviour from the boyfriend. This made him feel dark and disturbed with the added scenes of what looked like a padded room, portraying that mentally she is incapable of escaping her partners clutches and just how much his power has driven her into madness.

This was a strong music video and created a real narrative that explored artistic ways of manipulative and toxic relationships. To push this video further, the acting needed to have a more serious undertone to the characters and avoid the more over the top acting style as this can come across as awkward in places. Regardless, there is a lot of potential and scope for improvement, but the overall feel of this music video was edgy, real and haunting.