It was during the second or third viewing that my mother – now a retired nurse, who has dealt with amputations and other such horrors in her career – expressed surprise that I wasn’t scared by the video.
Transfixed, I watched the video a few times – partially because I wanted to see which notes bassist Jason Newsted was playing – but out of morbid curiosity. There's also vivid dream sequences where his pain medication causes him to hallucinate wildly about hanging out with Jesus in the trenches. The film flits between black and white – overlaid with a melancholy blue hue – and washed out colour, as Bonham tries to stay sane and attempt to recall happier moments of his life. With touch as his remaining sense, he begins to communicate with nurses and visiting generals by tapping out Morse code signals on his pillow using his head. He wakes up in a stark hospital room with no limbs and a crude, box-like mask covering the space where his face used to be. The cult film was based on novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s 1938 masterpiece – who’d later direct the film himself – and tells the story of a doomed WW1 infantryman Joe Bonham who is hit by an artillery shell.
SUSHIO METALLICA MUSIC VIDEO MOVIE
Directed by directed by Bill Pope and Michael Salomon, footage of the quartet thrashing away in a Long Beach warehouse was spliced with scenes from a 1971 anti-war movie called Johnny Got His Gun.
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