Human Beings Are Amazing

Roland Satterwhite is an internationally renowned classically trained violinist, whose arts were most recently heard on the "Babylon Berlin" soundtrack. Here, he left the violin bow in the suitcase. Instead, he virtuously plucks the strings of an electric viola and conveys, with full physical effort, powerful philosophical and political insights.
And they have it all: In a Guantanamo outfit, on the dog leash in the wake of a dominatrix, he sings of the dog's life of man, his plundering in a world falling bombs, crying mothers and workers exploited by unscrupulous bosses.
The atmosphere is somber, and the video leads its protagonist from one ordeal to the next: from his own funeral to a pillory, cages in all conceivable forms, to an electric chair. He fights against snowstorms and flying newspapers, gets stoned, tarred and feathered.
Is he a messiah, or rather a Don Quixote? Representing the suffering of the people he takes all the hardships and us to utopian dream worlds: As a superhero with laser glasses he races down an imaginery slide, he frees himself head-banging from a steaming egg, and his coffin transforms into a canoe in an azure blue cave.
His hopes, however, prove to be deceptive: his supposed key to freedom - a glossy gold-clad Eve, posing as a crucifix right from the beginning - conspires with those dark forces that are nipping in the bud any of his efforts to emancipate Mankind.
And also the fighting attitude of the protagonist seems to dissolve in the end in resignation: "You better stick to the rules of this tyrannical world; otherwise you will perish on her!" But just in the denied catharsis lies also the seed of rebellion.