Fairy Tales: "Sonne" by Rammstein

Sonne by Rammstein

In this video there are many similarities to the fairy tale of Snow White.  For example the men who perform in the Rammstein's music video, are smaller then the girl who turns up at their door.  She looks like the classic disney snow white.  The men resemble miners, which in the disney movie is the job of the dwarves.  They give her jewels and all they work for and she gives them their fantasy in this music video.  The resemble, the sun to their Snow White.  They also show a brush and apples in the music video which are supposed to represent poison.  They also show her in front of a mirror, perhaps already her step mother.  The miners treat their Snow White as gold, the sun and their jewel which they will gladly work for.  They also show a very different scene of her snorting or taking a line of gold.  In the end, the show her getting a drug overdose of gold, perhaps overdoing her beauty and vanity is what kills her.  This music video in their own way represent the cycle of Snow White and her step mother.  She is caring and beautiful, but then gets so involved with her beauty it becomes like a poison and kills her in the end.  The "dwarves" bury her in a  glass coffin surrounded by apples, representing purity and life through its many seeds which grow into trees.  Finally one apple breaks the coffin and lands in her hands, this representing another start on life.  Or perhaps the falling from the "sky" to the ground is one's grip on reality.  Either way at the end, she comes back to life which is what happens in the story.  I liked the modern take of this music video on Snow White.  It is interesting to see a woman take so much from the dwarves, and be their shining sun and yet die because of her own need for beauty, however it portrays the real cycle of Snow White perfectly.