: The video ends with the souls of both sisters, now dressed in white, finally reunited and flying freely together in the afterlife. Symbolic Meaning : Her soul leaves her body and flies to her sister's side. Together, the living sister and the ghost sister use their combined magic to obliterate their enemies and escape. The title is a play on the French children's counting rhyme " Am stram gram " (the equivalent of "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe"). By changing it to "" (Soul), Farmer explores themes of the " other ," secrets, and the idea of a spiritual double who acts as a "friendly ear". Critics have also noted that the video illustrates the idea of a "myth overtaken by reality," where the twins' serene completeness is shattered by the cruelty of the material world. : A troop of bandits on horseback arrives and pursues them. The sisters defend themselves with magical powers—specifically by flicking out incredibly long tongues that generate powerful magical effects, knocking the bandits from their horses. : They briefly frolic in the sky under the moonlight, but as dawn breaks, the dead sister's soul begins to fade. Desperate to remain with her twin, the surviving sister throws herself from the top of the Great Wall.
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