Music Video Analysis: Foo Fighters - Best of you

Best of you is a song about resistance ("were you born to resist"). The refusal to be taken advantage of by something thats bigger than you, or someone your in love with. You can see from the music video that life doesn't only offer pain/broken hearts, but beautiful memories and life events as well. Do you give into the pain, or do you resist?

Band plays on top of an abandoned hospital - resistance to death.

Video plays clips throughout the video of happy and sad things:
- Children playing alone or with eachother
- Car Crash
- A lion pouncing on its prey
- Snarling wolf
- Crash test dummies getting crushed
- Men and women kissing
These shots help to add representation to the video that it is based around nature, youth, love and death.

Close ups of lead singer and microphone used throughout video. Shows singer as very confronting towards audience as he asks the question.

Filming done with handheld cameras - adds to the effect that the viewer is closer to the band.
Band are all wearing black as if in mourning - Director of the videos wife died a couple of months before the beginning of production of this music video.