![]() Philip Sherburneĭirectors: Kahlil Joseph, Beyoncé Knowles Carter, Melina Matsoukas, Todd Tourso, Dikayl Rimmasch, Jonas Åkerlund, Mark Romanek, and Warsan Shire And Bowie, a master showman until the very end, pulled off his own perverse sort of miracle in reverse here, retreating backwards, trembling, vanishing into that shadowy armoire: On the fourth day, when we flung open the door, there were only mysteries left. ![]() The song’s title is clearly meant to remind us of the biblical Lazarus, whom Jesus brought back from the dead after four days. Biting his nails as he faces a blank page, he makes no bones about the fact that he’s a man who’s run out of time. Anyone who has seen someone die of a disease like cancer will be intimately familiar with the world of this video-Bowie, his skin like parchment, turning hospice care into high art. David Bowie was gone after secretly battling cancer for 18 months death’s hand, clawing up from beneath the bed, was no metaphor. Then, three days after this video was released, all those fraught objects suddenly became as clear as a syringe full of morphine. The symbols came so fast and furious, you barely knew what to do with them all: the hospital bed, the fountain pen, the buttons on bandaged eyes.
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