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Björk | All is Full of Love (Chris Cunningham video)
INT. STERILE WHITE MEDICAL ROOM
A barefoot man, in a bleach white hospital jumpsuit, enters the room and climbs onto a reclining table with headrest. A similarly-clad woman is then brought in on a hovering gurney by two medical assistants.
[The opening bars of Björk’s “All is Full of Love” begin to fade softly in.]
The medical assistants gently lift the woman onto a reclining table adjoining the man’s. He grabs her hand and squeezes, then a moment later his hand relaxes. We see just her eyes moving, and then we see the back of her headrest, with an opening that allows an incoming probe to penetrate the hardware on the back of her head [h/t The Matrix].
Her eyes close in relief as the probe is inserted [0:17 mark in song], and a semi-transparent unclothed simulacrum of her body gradually floats upward from her physical body, which remains on the table.
As her ghostly figure rises into a beam of warm light, her “muscles” relax, she holds her palms open and upward, and she floats up and out of the sterile white room.
INT. DARK, SURREAL, SUNLIT SPACE
As she continues to rise, her form solidifies and she gracefully tips her body forward and touches her feet to a dark, nondescript surface. Beautiful disbelief as she unfolds her arms, her fingers, her toes. The beam of sunlight follows her as she walks toward a small reclining bed, and stretches upon it.
She touches her skin, tracing her fingers along her neck, her arms, the length of her body. She closes her eyes and exhales.
The man we saw at the beginning of the film approaches from a distance [1:47 mark in song], unclothed as well. He reaches the bed and stretches onto it, pressing his face toward hers.
Both overwhelmed, their breathing heavy, tears at the edges of their eyes, staring deeply into the infinite expanse of each other, climaxing together [2:45 mark].
Now they lie together, asleep, wrapped in the warmth of each other’s embrace. The camera ever-so-gently pulls away from them, from their sunlit bed. Wandering backward through the darkness and descending once more into the white room, resting upon the sight of their physical bodies lying side by side, eyes closed, hands clasped together.
FADE TO BLACK.
