Analysis of Walk

The first scene of Dave Grohl sat in the car in traffic, the director uses lots of closeups to show his emotions that appear to be impatience and anger. The director zooms in on some car stickers such as "Thank You President Bush", "Coldplay", "Bieber", then keeps going back to his face to show that he is angry that this is what the World has come to as it has gone down hill music-wise. There are also shots of people in cars, in one of the cars there is a "hottie on board" and shows the ugly looking woman looking in the mirror putting lip gloss on. There is a shot of a well dressed man picking his nose, a small child swearing at Grohl. This scene shows that society is going down hill as well as music and Grohl has had enough. The close up shot of the words "Punk is dead" drawn on the wall is what I think pushes him over the edge initially to make him get out of his car and storm out.

The shot of him leaving his car fades into black, then fades into an extreme long shot of him walking along Brooklyn Bridge (I believe...). This is the start of his journey of "learning to walk again".

The first shot of him in the shop is a high angle shot if him walking towards the counter, this shows that  the shop owner is looking down on him and taking advantage of customers. This also becomes clear when the director uses a closeup shot of a sign that says "no change" and one that says "TIP colleague of the month". This, along with other events of the video such as going into the fast food restaurant and ordering food which looks nothing like the picture up on the boards, stepping in dog poo, getting mugged in central park, getting hit by a golf ball portray Grohl getting annoyed and frustrated with the way that society is going.

It can be argued that he "gets back" at society by beating the muggers in a fight and scaring them off and running one of the golfers over.

The only time that we see him even somewhat happy and where he belongs is with his band towards the end. The director uses lots of closeup shots on Grohl to show that he is happy and this could be linked to the lyrics "learning to walk again" as he is learning to be happy again and to play with his bandmates again.