The music video for Arcade Fire's "Afterlife" uses camera techniques like close-ups and match cuts to help tell the story of a woman dealing with a breakup. It features dark, dull lighting to create a depressing atmosphere representing how she feels, but this lightens as she finds joy on stage near the end. Through its realistic aesthetic and the woman's acting, the video represents that the pain of a breakup will not last forever and one can eventually be happy again.