[kuri♥ayu]

Originally Posted by Uemarasan

Personally, I think the overacting by Ayu in both the MW and Green videos is intentional. Watching both MVs, they have a theme in common. They are both about identity as performance.

In MW, Ayu is a spy, a person for whom identity is always reinvented and constructed, hence it is "performed". In Green, Ayu is a performer for the Chinese stage. For an actor, identity is also a performance. The homosexual undertones in Green is about how gender is a performance as well. I think the director is trying to connect the act of performing to the way one expresses one's sexuality. Midoring as a man, and the two men dancing together. Remember that back in the era that the music video is set, it was still common to have men perform the roles of women on stage.

So when Ayu overacts, she is drawing attention to her performance in the music video. The contrast between Ayu walking down the street in the beginning and in the end show this as well. At the start of the video, Ayu is very unnatural in her movements, she is situated in the middle of the view of the camera, and the colors are warm. In the ending, the camera zooms away from an Ayu walking away. Her expressions and movements are more natural, and the colors are cold and harsh. In the beginning, the performance is simply beginning. In the end, the performance comes to a close.

i know this was posted wayyyy back but still, i totally agree with everything. for me also, the overacting is intentional and i do not find it bad. the PV fits the lyrics and it has a message. to me it was executed fine ^______^