Foo Fighters - Walk (Music Video Analysis)

The music video for Walk by the american band Foo Fighters is heavily inspired by the film falling down, a crime film made in 1998, that centers around a seemingly stressed protagonist depicted in the music video by the bands singer and multi-instrumentalist Dave Grohl. The video follows a similar story as events seem to turn against the protagonist which only seems to frustrate him further and ultimately lead to his arrest in both depictions.

The beginning of video shows Grohl sat in a car stuck in traffic, the camera cuts between shots at wheel level of the cars and to the different people sitting in cars around him as well as quick cuts to the bumper stickers of the cars surrounding him, we are then shown a little boy looking out of the rear windscreen of the car at Grohl, the little boy proceeds stick his middle finger up at Grohl who looks visibly annoyed by this comment. More shots of his surroundings are shown, a young couple and what the audience can assume is a cross-dressing man applying lipstick. Grohl is then shown screaming and abandoning his car, walking away with only a guitar case. The protagonist then proceeds to throw away his phone continue to walk. As the video progresses Grohl enters a shop and proceeds to have an argument with the shop worker, the employee then proceeds to push a plunger into the protagonists face, provoking him to then hit the clerk with a stick of beef jerky. 

After leaving the store he then walks to a phone box, upon entering the phone box it becomes apparent that it doesn't work, he then proceeds to push it over out of what the audience can assume is shear

frustration.The misfortune suffered by the notably angry protagonist continues when he decides to order a burger he sees on a billboard, he comes enraged further when the burger obviously looks nothing like the advertisement, Grohl then pushes the bun of the burger into the face of an employee and promptly leaves. He then walks through what we can assume is a park, and slips in what is revealed to be dog excrement. While scraping it off his shoe, sat on a bench, he is approached by two men, both of whom are armed, the make clear demands for Grohl's guitar case, the protagonist is visually angered and attacks one of the criminals throwing him to the ground and leaving the other wetting himself and visibly terrified, Grohl walks off leaving the man on the floor.

Grohl is shown to continue to walk over a golf course with two men shouting and hitting gold balls at him, Grohl then runs towards the men who start to flee, the protagonist jumps into a golf cart and chases the fleeing men, running one over. Grohl then jumps out of moving golf caddy just before it veers into a lake. The scene then cuts to him running away from the police and then entering a warehouse, inside it is revealed that his whole journey was so that he could play a song with his band. The rest of video is a performance piece with shots cutting between band members playing until the actual song ends and the police kick through the door arresting Grohl.