Analysis Of The Movie Bright

Home, featuring Machine Gen Kelly, Bebe Rexha, and X Ambassadors, is a music video released by Atlantic Records in November of 2017 for the Netflix original Bright. (See figure 1) The video, directed by Dave Ayer who also directed the movie Bright, is filmed in LA and incorporates some of the movies ideas of social injustices against its fictional orcs. Set in a universe where humans and mystical creatures coexist together on earth, Bright follows a human and an orc police partner who struggle to overcome their differences and work together to keep a magical wand away from an evil elf. Home peaked at number ninety on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart back in December of 2017. Home appeals to one’s sense of longing for home, while also speaking out

It inherits numerous ideas from the movie Bright in that it shows the fictional characters of orcs living alongside humans. In the fictional world of Bright, orcs are unjustly viewed as a lower class, and disrespected by much of humanity-especially the cops. The orcs are portrayed living in the ghetto and are dressed accordingly, as such, the police have no respect for the orcs and are shown repeatedly abusing them. (See figure 3) The video associates the police with the idea of social injustice by emphasizing how they mistreat the orcs – drawing a parallel between police ill-treatment of minorities in society and the police brutality against the

In the latter half of the video, Bebe Rexha and Sam Harris assert:
I found no cure for the loneliness
I found no cure for the sickness
Nothing here feels like home
Crowded streets, but I'm all alone
This appears to be the culmination of the lyrics where the artists state that through all their attempts to find a peace, nothing here feels like home. The song can be compared with the Christian worldview that our time here on earth is limited, and that our only true peace is found in Jesus Christ, with our ultimate home being in heaven.
Seemingly unrelated to the lyrics, the video attempts to incorporate the idea of the police mistreating the orcs derived from the movie Bright. In one of the final scenes, Sam Harris is shown smirking as he just graffitied “let us live” on a cop car. (See figure 7) The video unjustly portrays cops as the enemy, potentially insinuating that the police are a key reason to society’s degradation and therefore our home’s demise. While there is some validity here, the video takes it rather far and isolates the problem to the cops, without showing any other ideas that may have caused our home’s