Oh wow! Yeah I heard it...........very haunting, perfect for Richard Marx too! His voice is soooo well suited, you'd think it was for real like you were hearing an accused man sing his "pleads of innocence."
Who killed Mary was likely purposely left unanswered, however, arguments can be made for several points of views.
[Marx's Character]
By listening strictly to the lyrics, one might infer that Marx's character murdered Mary. He gives statements that could be interpreted as conflicting, such as "No one understood what I felt for Mary / No one cared until the night she went out walking alone / And never came home..." followed in the refrain by "I swear I left her by the river / I swear I left her safe and sound..." This may cause some to wonder how he left her by the river if she was walking alone. Others may simply take it to mean the river is the last place he saw her.
In the video, Marx's character has clearly suffered a troubled childhood and it is depicted that it affects his adult life deeply. When he sees Mary with another man, it is possible that he flies into a jealous rage, follows her to the river, and kills her, later returning home to mourn his loss.
[The Sheriff]
The video seems to heavily imply that the Sheriff is guilty. He is seen following one or both of them, taking their pictures, and even keeping pictures of Mary in his squad car. Mary is also shown running away from the squad car on one occasion.
The sheriff identifies a white cloth as the murder weapon while interrogating Marx. It appears to be the same white scarf Marx lost on the branch of the bush the night Mary was killed, and the sheriff was the only other person at the scene.
Motives could include the sheriff's possible jealousy of Marx and Mary, and the desire to exile Marx permanently from the town by strangling Mary with the white scarf, and framing Marx for the murder.
[Mary's Lover]
It is also possible that Mary's unidentified lover could be the killer, perhaps because he may have seen Marx lingering outside Mary's house. However, the viewer is given little else to help them come to this conclusion.
I guess it would be the man in the car with her while Richard was passing by in the video...(obvious/simpliest guess)
But if we tought about it a little more, i think it could have been a case of split personnality. I've seen another music video, years ago, with that interesting theory. The video was "l'affaire Dumoutier" by The box. Seach it on youtube, you'll see similarities. The guy in the vidéo seems harmless but as the video goes, we discover that it's him, that kill is girlfriend...
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Who Killed Mary? - Hazard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZzFB8usC28
Oh wow! Yeah I heard it...........very haunting, perfect for Richard Marx too! His voice is soooo well suited, you'd think it was for real like you were hearing an accused man sing his "pleads of innocence."
Who killed Mary was likely purposely left unanswered, however, arguments can be made for several points of views.
[Marx's Character]
By listening strictly to the lyrics, one might infer that Marx's character murdered Mary. He gives statements that could be interpreted as conflicting, such as "No one understood what I felt for Mary / No one cared until the night she went out walking alone / And never came home..." followed in the refrain by "I swear I left her by the river / I swear I left her safe and sound..." This may cause some to wonder how he left her by the river if she was walking alone. Others may simply take it to mean the river is the last place he saw her.
In the video, Marx's character has clearly suffered a troubled childhood and it is depicted that it affects his adult life deeply. When he sees Mary with another man, it is possible that he flies into a jealous rage, follows her to the river, and kills her, later returning home to mourn his loss.
[The Sheriff]
The video seems to heavily imply that the Sheriff is guilty. He is seen following one or both of them, taking their pictures, and even keeping pictures of Mary in his squad car. Mary is also shown running away from the squad car on one occasion.
The sheriff identifies a white cloth as the murder weapon while interrogating Marx. It appears to be the same white scarf Marx lost on the branch of the bush the night Mary was killed, and the sheriff was the only other person at the scene.
Motives could include the sheriff's possible jealousy of Marx and Mary, and the desire to exile Marx permanently from the town by strangling Mary with the white scarf, and framing Marx for the murder.
[Mary's Lover]
It is also possible that Mary's unidentified lover could be the killer, perhaps because he may have seen Marx lingering outside Mary's house. However, the viewer is given little else to help them come to this conclusion.
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I guess it would be the man in the car with her while Richard was passing by in the video...(obvious/simpliest guess)
But if we tought about it a little more, i think it could have been a case of split personnality. I've seen another music video, years ago, with that interesting theory. The video was "l'affaire Dumoutier" by The box. Seach it on youtube, you'll see similarities. The guy in the vidéo seems harmless but as the video goes, we discover that it's him, that kill is girlfriend...
That song was really good..