Tropico

The visuals, the message, the production, the songwriting... everything is perfect.

Tropico is very unusual film. I don't recall seeing other productions similar to it. Or you have standard short music videos, or full length music films like The Wall or Yellow Submarine. Tropico is something in between : 27 minutes long, featuring three songs, some dialogs and a lot of poetry (parts of poems : I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman, Howl by Allen Ginsberg and America, why I love her by John Mitchum.) First part is a surrealistic grotesque - cowboy's parody of Garden of Eden with John Wayne as God, Lana as Eve, white Afro-American (albino) as Adam, and Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Jesus. Second part ultra realistic depiction of urban Hell on Earth created by men in "land of god and monsters" - Los Angeles: drugs, liquor, smokes, strippers, prostitutes, gangsters, firearms, mind killing jobs etc... Third part is dreamy, romantic redemption part in country side (Hills around LA ?)

Tropico is definitely worth watching and listening, even if you are not Lana's fan. Who is not familiar with Walt Whitman, and Allen Ginsberg poetry, should first read mentioned poems, and maybe also some analysis of those poems to better understand the meaning of whole thing.

For me Tropico is a philosophical short music movie which makes you think and to be a better person.

SUBTITLES :

If somebody looks for polish subtitles for Tropico, I just finished the translation. You can downland the file from mine website : www.graphique3d.republika.pl/Tropico.zip

Watching "Tropico" was very intense the first time. It's one of the greatest ideas ever. It's still intense. Lana Del Rey did her music justice by doing this. Del Rey's music demanded more than just sound. It's cinematic quality needed this video to communicate the fully. I feel extremely inspired by "Tropico". "Tropico" is going down in history and it's surely just the beginning of what's to come from Lana Del Rey.