To drive home the gag and mask any accidental mouth movements, colorful, hand-drawn squiggles and animated lines are frequently superimposed over Hollis’s face, acting as literal censors.

The constant barrage of natural footage highlights the line "it never ends," reminding viewers of the relentless, repeating patterns in nature and human interaction. 🎬 Record Label Pushback and the "Green Screen" Version

The video deliberately subverts the traditional 1980s pop promo:

Under pressure from the label to produce something more standard for MTV rotation, a second version was reluctantly made.

To fully appreciate Mark Hollis's famous, tight-lipped protest against the music industry's standard video format, watch the official video here: Talk Talk - It's My Life (Official Video) Talk Talk band YouTube• Mar 28, 2019 TALK TALK / IT'S MY LIFE (1984) "HD"

The vast majority of the video's runtime is actually spliced-together footage from the acclaimed 1979 BBC wildlife documentary Life on Earth . 🦩 The Narrative and Symbolism