Comments | skyecaptain: Just to be clear...

skyecaptain

Just to be clear...

Nov 18, 2009 10:50

...In "Fire Bomb," Rihanna is essentially telling us that (1) her ex has shot at her car, puncturing her gas tank and (I guess) spilling her brake fluid (now that's one magic bullet!), so (2) she has decided that the best way to make lemonade of the situation is to drive her car, which is leaking gasoline and can't brake, through the house of her ( Read more... )

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edgeofwhatever November 18 2009, 16:39:28 UTC

I wrote these comments already!

skyecaptain November 18 2009, 16:58:07 UTC

Coulda sworn I read that thread, but I guess not! Will comment there instead.

edgeofwhatever November 18 2009, 16:39:57 UTC

Which is to say, jump in.

edgeofwhatever November 18 2009, 16:40:47 UTC

I don't get the feeling that he's the one who shot up her gas tank, though. She's far enough from him that she has to take a road to get there.

skyecaptain November 18 2009, 17:32:24 UTC

For some reason I imagine him shooting at her car, driving off, then she hops in the car to follow him home. OUTTA THE WAY LOVERS MY EX IS ON HIS WAY BACK TO CATCH THE SECOND HALF OF "BONES" AND I AM GOING TO BLOW HIM UP.

edgeofwhatever November 18 2009, 17:53:44 UTC

I mean, how long did she sit around looking at her shot-ass car before she decided to drive after him, though, if he's far enough away that there's now traffic between them and he's gonna be in his house by the time she gets there? Now it's less "EPIC RELATIONSHIP JIHAD" and more "kinda lame half-assed revenge for shooting up her car, not for the far more subtle and arresting psychological damage he's been inflicting on her all this time, plus now the bit where she's equating how he hurt her with crashing a car into him and setting him on fire is kind of ruined, thanks a lot, DAVE."

skyecaptain November 18 2009, 20:14:21 UTC

Yeah, you're right. But I don't really buy the "the bullets are metaphorical" argument either, which means that someone who is not her ex shot at her car. Which is actually kind of awesome! Here's another scenario you can think of to ignore my first one:

Rihanna is a double agent for the U.S. government dealing with the Japanese mafia, who have started to gain a foothold in her (American, adopted) hometown. So she stakes out a meeting ground to "give them their info," and as she pulls up, Chris Brown is telling them everything -- that she's trying to screw them, etc. She doesn't understand why he was there in the first place, of course, until she pulls up (right after Chris Brown leaves) and the yakuza members start open firing on her car. At which point she decides that she'll need to terminate this relationship PRONTO, and since the Japanese mafia are going to kill her anyway, she might as well kill two birds (she being one of them) with one stone (the stone here being a metaphor for her car, which is a metaphor for us traveling ( ... )

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alexmacpherson November 18 2009, 19:41:00 UTC

I have decided it's either "microwaving a metal tragedy" or "microwaving a mental tragedy" now.

weasel_seeker November 18 2009, 20:57:54 UTC

"seems cold but baby no it doesn't have to be / microwaving the metal - tragedy" perhaps? not one line but just two discrete statements.

anyway, I've been imagining that the cops have shot her gas tank perhaps?

weasel_seeker November 18 2009, 20:59:06 UTC

Somehow they have glommed onto her plan to crash through his window and kill him (she is masked after all) and have shot out her tank in an attempt to shoot her tires. she is now leaking gas and brake fluid in a race vs. time to get to his house in time to take them both out.