Elastic Heart it's the name of a song made by Sia which has a music video that involves a man and a girl inside a big cage interacting with each other while making strange expressions and movements. My interpretations of this is that they represents 2 animals locked in a cage that starts knowing each other till they find a way out but one of them wants to stay because now he feels at home.
At the beginning of the video, when this 2 characters are presented, we can appreciate that both of them are kind of "roaring" or fighting. They look at each other as some kind of enemy, or strange being that they are locked with and they just want to draw a line between them as if it was the first time they met. After that, one of them (the man) tries to escape by climbing the cage to find a way out. And at that moment, the little girl was lying on the floor like if she was tired, or maybe she just quited of trying escaping. So the man takes advantage of this and tries to get closer to the girl. It was all quited, they were just looking at each other maybe saying “hello”, and for one moment it looked as if they accepted each other. But suddenly we go back to the beginning, they start fighting again and messing around but this time, it seemed that they weren’t having a serious fight. They were just playing and having fun. I taked this as if they were knowing each other to try to have more confidence between them…
But suddenly, the girl sneaks among the cage’s bars and escapes. Now the man was furious, he wanted to be with her and get out but he didn’t know how. He desperately tried to grab the girl while she was outside, or break the cage but he couldn't. So the girl decides to enter again to be with him one last time. Since this moment, the man’s facial expression changes. He now looked worried or scared of something. It could be that he knew that he was not gonna be able to escape or see the girl again. They have a little time together, playing and maybe also saying goodbye…She was punching the man’s face and he was making different faces. I don't know it that had a secret meaning or they were just playing. Then, the girls tries to show him the exit and get him out but it looked like if he didn’t wanted to escape anymore, he looked sad, tired and gived up. The girl keeps trying but he was dying…
So as a conclusion, my interpretation on this video is the following: This 2 personas, that represents animals have been locked in his cage and they have never seen each other before. As any wild animal, at first they were roaring and fighting all the time and they couldn't get along. Both tried to escape but the were tired of trying, they started interacting together and knowing each other better while playing and messing around. But when one of them finds a way out, and the other one gets crazy and furious and starts screaming and punching the cage to try to escape too. So the girl tried to show him the way out, but he doesn’t seems like he wanted to escape anymore… as if he has accepted his fate. The title “Elastic Heart” could be interpreted as someone who has a lot of love to give, someone who is generous, helpful, honest, patient, a good person. This can also be described in the lyrics of the song. But sincerely, I don't know in what way I could relate that, to what’s seen in the video. Or better said, MY interpretation of what’s seen in the video… Cause other people may interpret it on a different way, so I cannot assure that my interpretations are correct. When I first saw the video, I didn’t understand it at all. I had to watch it many times, to at least have an idea of what this is about… And when you start to understand some things, you start to enjoy what you’re seeing…