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From: skrymslave@aol.com (SkrymSlave)
Newsgroups: alt.music.nin
Subject: **Broken** official review
Date: 24 Sep 1994 11:24:01 -0400
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Broken:

For those of you who know very little about "broken" here is a brief
review.

 "broken" is a conceptual long form video based around the ep and some
scenes from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. It contains all of the
music from the ep with the exception of "last" and the 2 bonus tracks
(suckand physical)
 It begins and ends in b&w letterbox. The story line is simple, a man
picks up a young man in the beginning and throught the video slowly
mutilates him until he is dead. All of these sequences were filmed in
color and are intended to look like they were filmed by a camcorder setup
by the killer. They are extremely realistic and would be x-rated if this
was ever released. The NIN videos are playing on a TV in the room were
this is all taking place and are all in b&w. Each one is a concept video
with the exceptions of "help me I am in hell" which is played while the
screen is completely black and "gave up" which is the grand finale of the
serial killing and includes graphic sexual mutilation intercut with trent
singing on the tv all ending with the serial killer dismembering the body
with a chainsaw and eating the young man's heart. 
 Do to it's realism this video makes "happiness in slavery" look like a 
art project.