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"Rabbit In Your Headlights" is the promotional video made for the Single By The Same Name by the british electronic duo UNKLE . The song features Thom Yorke in guest vocals. The video has been critically acclaimed and it won the MVPA 's Best International Video of the Year Award in 1999. It premiered in November 1998 and was directed by Jonathan Glazer . VIDEO DESCRIPTION The video uses a technique which Glazer will later use for the " A Song For The Lovers " video, being shot in Real-time and allowing the sounds produced by the objects and characters to be audible above the music. It differs from that video in that the music doesn't come from an specified place within the film. It stars Denis Lavant as the main character, a middle aged man wearing a heavy Parka who's walking along the middle of the road of a highly transited car Tunnel . He appears to be out of his mind, mumbling and shouting incoherencies. Some of the cars honk at him and swerve out of his way. All of a sudden a car hits him from the side and he is left on the ground. The car continues its course without stopping or slowing down. The man lies on the ground and after a while stands up and starts walking again as if nothing had happened. Then another car hits him, this time the hit occurs straight on and sends him flying a couple of feet. A driver in a nearby car watches with contempt the man rolling on the street as he drives by. The man gets up again. A car swerves by and slows down alongside the man. The driver tries to talk to him and asks where is he going. The man pays no attention and continues walking and talking to himself. The driver soon tires of this and drives away. Another car hits him, and the man gets up almost instantly. The madness which apparently this man is suffering from gets more acute as he grabs his face and moves erratically. More accidents occur, some cars honk, some cars swerve out of the way, but none stop. The man removes his parka and throws it on the ground. He is wearing nothing underneath and we see his chest covered with bruises and cuts. Then, as the song stops leaving just a Piano playing, the man stops as well. He smiles and opens his arms in a Crucifix -like position. A car is coming his way and makes no intention of stopping. The car hits the man, but instead of the man being thrown into the ground due to the force of the car, the car is destroyed as if the man was made of Granite . The final shot of the video is one of the most iconic and powerful images that a music video has produced, as it shows the man stopping the car with his body and the debris of the crash engulfing the man while the screen fades to black. The video could be seen to symbolize how we look down on the disadvantaged members of society, with the people in the cars rarely stopping to see if the man is okay. The people who do slow down to see what the man is doing seem to be mocking him. The final shot could indicate the man making a stand in order to be noticed. EXTERNAL LINKS
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