RA Music Video

Postal Service
We will become Sillouettes

Audience: Concerned Latter Day saints who think they can sufficiently store enough food and water to survive a nuclear holocaust.

What are the consequences of storing enough food on your survival in a nuclear holocaust?

Storing enough food will not do any good for you in a nuclear holocaust because storing enough food won't protect your skin from melting.

Jared Hess begins his argument in an LDS living room. We see doily pillows and the family tree in pictures all over the wall. He takes us to shelves of canned food and jars of peaches. We see a rack of silver spoons, a collection only LDS mothers have. We also see a sewing machine as it is sewing clothes together. He plays heavily on this ethos of the typical Mormon family who his preparing for the destruction of the world. AS LDS memebers we are all very familiar with these things. If not in our own families, our grandparents have these things in their homes. As we see this typical family living together and being happy, we feel that the director knows a little about what he is talking about.

Even though Jared's footage doesn't relate to what the singer is saying, I think it is relevant to his argument. He shows cupboards of food and canned fruit, but he doesn't show us what we hear him saying will happen. While the singer is singing about how the news reporter said not to go outside today or your insides will explode, he and his family are riding their bikes down the empty street. We see him talking about how we are all going to die and our bodies will decompose and we see him and his son eating dried fruit together and having a good time. Yeah, you won't survive a nuclear holocaust, thats why you need to pay attention to whats important right now, your family.

I feel that in Jared's argument we have sufficient information. In fact if he would have continued I think it would have been drawn out and whipping the dead horse. The fact that he ends the music video on a scene similar to Man's Search for Happiness, as the sun is setting and the family is gathered together, we know that he wants us to understand that no preparation will save us from a nuclear war and that we should focus on family as the most important thing and we shouldn't take it for granted. Its very simple and there is just the right ammount of information.

I feel that this argument works well, because he is showing these Latter Day Saints that they can't survive, but he is also saying how important it is to have faith that everything will work out and that we need to appreciate what we do have in this moment. It is very effective.