Everyone seems to get their own hold on Eminem`s new "Space Bound" video, in which the Detroit MC commits suicide after finding out that his girlfriend is cheating on him. The song`s producer, Jim Jonsin, likened the time to a movie, and patch the picture is so shocking, he believes Eminem is clearly playing a character.
"Things pass in movies all the time.
People kill themselves, people get killed, they kill other people," the multiplatinum producer explained to MTV News on Monday. "When my kids watch it, I like to excuse to them in that manner: `It`s like a movie, ya know? He isn`t really killing himself.` "
Jonsin, who was on set when the Joseph Kahn-directed vid was shot in February, suggested that viewers see the time a few times to build out the game and so trace their own conclusion.
"The picture itself, it`s tricky to form out what`s going on in certain scenes," he said. "It`s release to have them a bit to form out why he did it. It`s not exactly spelled out, like, `I killed myself because this girl drove me to it or she`s cheating on me or she`s texting some other dude,` or whatsoever it might be. So you`re still guessing a small bit."
Another factor of the picture that can be taken in a few ways is the two different versions of Eminem that appear onscreen simultaneously. Sasha Grey, who plays the rapper`s girlfriend in "Space Bound," sees one of the two Shadys as Em`s subconscious. Jonsin had a similar study and compared the visual to Alanis Morissette`s 1996 video for her hit single "Ironic."
"It reminded me of Alanis Morissette`s `Ironic` video, where she`s got her and her two other egos in the car," he said, before turning the conversation back to Em. "I consider it was him living in the now as a soul going through it and him living as a person who is witnessing it and can have other choices to not be in that scenario. Maybe he would`ve chose differently, so now he`s watching himself."
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