I really liked the message of the video: that the guy became the “world’s greatest inventor” and lost what was special inside of him. That little dude in the video just killed me. There was something so forlorn about his face. It got right at my heart. I definitely enjoyed the music and the video. I’ve never listened to Kenna before, but I’m going to have to check out more.
First off I love the fact it was done in a Tim Burton like stop action. The imagery was amazing in that it told the story of a dreamer and his search for happiness, which can’t be bought or sold and if it is it only leaves you wanting more. Happiness is what you make of it. He found his happiness when he created bliss but it was only temporary and after he took off the bliss glasses he was empty inside, kind of like how drugs can effect you that. The black and white gray scale adds to the effects of what happiness is and the ending where five E.T. looking people are having fun by just being themselves and taking pleasure out of a simple joy by playing on the playground.
wow i am seriously amazed on how much emotion there was in this video. well the way the emotions were portrayed. i can see how at the beginning the guy felt depressed, alone, didnt feel happy, drained and wanted a boost wanted to feel the happiness again thats trapped inside of him. but he turns to material things to make him happy when it should be the people who cared about him happy. when he invents the "happy glasses" he at first feels proud of himself, but then looks back into himself and the happiness is all gone. i think this is a strong point to be made that material things don't make us happy, that money doesnt make us a different happier person.
This video is so important to me, I have it on my iPod and watch it when ever I start to feel like I am the only person who feels this hell. The first time I saw it I was in the middle of having my leg lenghten. I had lost 2 inches of bone length in a bad car wreak a few years before. It was a very painful and depressing time in my life and watching this video every morning on MTV2 some how gave me a way to express my hell. I know it is stupid, but Kenna make me feel like someone out there knows my pain and his music has help me so much in dealing with the mental illness that has defined my life. Thank You Kenna & Keep Going!!
I had seen this video before thanks to my brother and I immediately loved it.
To me it represents life’s frustrations. How we sometimes feel stuck, trapped and as if there is not a lot we can do.
It also motivates us to make a change, to find an answer and to look for that which is missing from our lives.
I like the fact that it is kind of a precautionary tale…yes we must make a change but we must also be careful of what it is we do. The little guy was frustrated with his life and his meager existence that he decided to do something about it. He created a product which “helped” him find “bliss” but it wasn’t real and in the end he still felt empty. He let himself get carried away by glamorous things which are only temporary and therefore ended up right where he had started. I like the fact that at the end we see a few colorful people playing and having fun with something so simple. It made me reevaluate those so called important things in my life.
This video is crazy, the character starts off with the ability to be happy inside of him, the burning that is inside of him is a symbolism, he just needs to find a way to let it out, he even trys to buy happiness. The world is cold and sad so he invents the goggles that allow anyone to be happy, but then the fame and money turn him into someone who makes other people unhappy, so he loses the burning, or ability to be happy himself. And someone else will take his spot, because everyone wants to become rich and famous, but its the process of becoming rich that makes people happy, being creative, not the money itself.
in the beginning, the clay man leads a monotonous life producing the "happy" product, but he yearns for something more. we even see the fire burning in him when he opens the door in his stomach. he finally realizes his dream when he creates the "bliss" product, and he gains fame as the greatest inventor. but it his office, he opens the door in his stomach, and the fire is no longer there. he thought that success and money would make him happy, but it made him as empty as his boss was when he was a factory worker. he realizes that what he thought would make him happy didn't make him happy at all, and the message is that happiness is more that money; it must be found within. i think this is an accurate representation of life. people often strive to be the greatest and do the best, but once they acheive those lofty goals, they learn that they have become what they once disliked.
The character was obviously sad. He had a burning desire inside to become successful, herego in his mind, happy. He didn't realize that money doesn't buy happiness (brilliantly translated in the video). In addition to what eventually made him think he had found happiness, he then feels an emptiness that he had become what he had hated. I think the message is that happiness comes from within and the definition of happy is not the same for everyone.
Wow, I really liked this video a lot! It was sorta weird with the clay sculpture people but I really did enjoy watching it. I think it was very interesting. It was about how these people were sad so they were trying to invent something that would make them happy and the main guy started out as a worker and then invented Bliss. He was then called “World’s Best inventor” and he then was the boss. Then it shows him yelling at everyone just like his boss was doing. And it shows another worker looking up just like he did, with a sad expression on his face. Then when he takes off the glasses he’s sad again and see colorfull people on a Merry-go-round from far away and then its over. It kinda mad me sas to be honest. Haha.
Bonus:
This video was made by an artist named “Kenna”. And by “Sparkart productions.” In 2007.
<div>the video actually made me a little sad. because the main character started out sad and depressed in the beginning and ended up the same way at the end.</div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">that video was so interesting. The main clay guys life was spent around being sad, and the only lightness(happiness) he could find was in himself but he didnt know what to do with it.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Then after he got yelled at my his boss he finally discovered what he could do, and that ended up making not only him happy but everyone else happy too. But it was really sad because it just showed that it take our society one person with a great idea and the happiness to do it to make all the rest of us happy with his product. This song Hell Burns was made in 2003</span>
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this was very good it has so much to say. the fact that they had not words was very cool it made you think about it more. all of the people looked like clones. ecept 4 that one who invented the goggles he was different. i find it very smart to create color to exspres the felling of happyness. and at the end it seemd like thoses colorful people on the mary-go-round were happy but they dint need the goggles. so mabe after all the people didnt need the goggles mabe they just needed to relize that evan that thare was no color around them they could see it in a different point of view.
This video, “Hell Bent”, made by Kenna Zemedkun in 2003 is probably the best one I have ever seen. The general mood is amazing. Sad, yet hopeful. I like the way the characters are displayed as gray and dark along with the rest of the town, but happiness and bliss and any sign of it are all in color. The light added to the end of the tunnel, you might say. Excellent work.
i think really it depicts how people trying what other people want them to do to make them seem happy... makes them sadder. so the people not following the crowd are truly happy
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I really liked the message of the video: that the guy became the “world’s greatest inventor” and lost what was special inside of him. That little dude in the video just killed me. There was something so forlorn about his face. It got right at my heart. I definitely enjoyed the music and the video. I’ve never listened to Kenna before, but I’m going to have to check out more.
by aamybrownn | 7/14/2009 9:11 PM (GMT-08:00)