Research and Planning: Music video and narrative: Claude Levi-Strauss.

Levi-Strauss explained that a narrative is motivated by a struggle between binary opposites. The audience should identify the 'right' side and support it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEukS2YN9B8

Binary opposites are clear in this video; we can see that the man walking down the street is representing the 'right' side, and the suicidal girl is representing the 'wrong' side. This is clear due to the first shot of the video is a mid close up of him, which then tracks in front of him confidently walking down the street and we can see the secure/confident expression on his face.

The 'right' side of the binary opposition does represent dominant values as the Proppian hero is a young white male. Also we can see that the subject of suicide is deemed as 'wrong', which is the binary opposite. Although, as we see them into their last conflict he pushes the woman; a dominant ideology in society is to not use violence , especially against vulnerable women. So here we see the hero now on the wrong side of binary opposition.