The music video "Return To Innocence" by Enigma contains numerous images and symbols. In the beginning of the video, I had noticed a pear tree which I believe to symbolize life and growth. The clear-blue ocean water represents baptism. Through out the video, one can see that everyone and everything is rolling backwards in time. This represents the fact that people are starting their lives over again. They are returning to the places where they came from, which would be their childhood, and childhood is innocence. In the background of the video, there is the constant appearance of a white unicorn running freely. I believe that the unicorn symbolizes childhood dreams and fantasies. The idea that the unicorn is white would also suggest that innocence is pure, righteous, and it contains a sense of freedom. In the video, one can also view a child getting his hair-cut, which in my opinion, symbolizes a young boy entering adulthood. The reason why I believe this is because when a person pictures an adult male, he/she usually pictures him to be clean-cut with short hair, and most adult men have lost their innocence. However, a young boy's hair is long, which I believe to symbolize liberation, and in the video when the child's hair is growing back, he is regaining his innocence that may have been lost. Also, in the video there are two young people that are seen kissing each other, which resembles sweet, young, virtuous love. The final symbol seen in the video is a baby being baptised, which implies that the circle of life is beginning again.
At first, I was unable to fully comprehend the message of the video. However, after viewing it a few times, I was able to understand the symbolic meaning of the people and the other objects going backwards in time. I found the images and the symbols to be quite powerful and very effective in conveying the message that we all came from innocence, and that we should all embrace it for as long as we can.
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