I’m not much for music videos, but perhaps my favorite is the one for Canadian singer Corey Hart’s signature song “Sunglasses at Night” see here. It was filmed at Toronto’s Don Jail.
Hart was big during my childhood. This video, though. The synthesizer sound, the shades, the shaggy, spiky haircuts, the bright red lipstick, man. You can hardly get more 80s than this.
Anyway, at the end of the video, the prison officer (played by media personality Laurie Brown) releases him from his cell. But then he wakes up in his bed and at one point we see the shadows of the bars of his cell hanging over the room. And then it cuts to a final scene where he is just sleeping in his apartment.
What interpretation should we give this story? Did Brown release Hart? Was it a dream while he was in jail? Or were there two jail sequences with one a dream and the other a dream within a dream, and Corey was never in jail to begin with but just depressed or passed out?