Paula chucks Keanu’s chin before riding away, Back to the Future style, with a young man from her father’s generation. Keanu smiles and tosses his hair because he’s good-natured as fuck. In response to her ducktailed dad boyfriend pointing at Keanu and laughing, Paula retreats to a room with no overhead lights where she is free to wave an orange scarf and make the following declaration:
Here’s my story and the story goes
You give love, you get love
And more than heaven knows
Now in his own classic car, Keanu pulls up next to Paula her sixteen friends in their convertible. He appears to be saying something along the lines of “hey, let’s race” to which Paula’s man child boyfriend says something like “Fuck you, Bill and Ted.” Paula laughs. Keanu also laughs because he is Keanu and aforementioned good natured as fuck. Back in her chamber, Paula sings:
Hurry, hurry lover
Come to me
Rush, rush
I wanna see, I wanna see ya
Get free with me
which is interesting because Keanu has been rather lighthearted and free this whole time and she’s been a stuck up bitch. Back at the college (they’re in college?) Keanu makes a smart comment about astronomy (I assume) and some other student gets mad. Paula is coyly amused while Keanu is obviously struggling with his own self-worth and the hopelessness that comes with being unheard.
Back to the dark room. Dancing in a marabou trimmed bra now, feathered gloves, no scarf. Wait–now it’s silver sequins. Wait–back to the orange scarf.
Keanu broods on a balcony at the university or maybe a castle in Greece with hair recently brushed. In his suit, he looks as perfect as a piano. I want to throw roses at him but when Paula and her posse show up she just shoots him a provocative glance while putting on pressed powder. Then Paula’s boyfriend tosses her aside in which could be a compelling commentary on domestic violence and sexism if not diluted by the fact that seconds later she’s seen leaning casually against the car watching Ducktail threaten Keanu with a knife before slicing his whitewall tires.
Not to worry! Paula slips on her Marylin Monroe dress and plays the part of drag racing flag girl to squash this once and for all. Keanu leaps from his car just before it goes over a cliff. Biff goes over. A violin plays an effigy and/or a romantic soundtrack while Paula and Keanu chase each other through an abandoned mansion. They light candles because it’s not 1810 and electricity has not been invented.
Paula fondly recollects all of the times she teased Keanu and giggled while he was bullied as they kiss in the darkness.
Left out of the official video is this gem of a conversation between our lovers.
Can I ask you something? Have you ever been in love?
If I was I didn’t know it. And you?
No. Isn’t that terrible?
Terrible? No. It just reminds us that we’re all alone, that’s all.
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