John strums his guitar on the sand while ghostlike Sinhalese children frolic in the background.
Images dissolve into each other, hazy and dreamlike it’s a lovely effect, although here it seems like Simon is lost in wistful daydreams about John, which was maybe not the intended result. We get a lot of gorgeous shots of boats and fishermen and frolicking children as the boys stroll on a picturesque beach. …I mean, it’s still not a good look, but I’ll give it a pass under these circumstances. Maybe Simon just stepped out of a shower, felt a bit chilly, and threw on the first covering he could find. Ah, this again: He’s shirtless under his nice suit coat, just like John in “Hungry Like the Wolf.” It looks somewhat more natural on Simon, probably because he’s indoors by himself and thus isn’t letting his nipples play peekaboo with the locals while he scampers amuck through crowded city streets. Simon loiters on a bench and sings to himself. There’s no plot, but there sure are a lot of pretty images.
It’s a land of majestic beaches, epic sunsets, and scantily-clad pop stars! Hard to resist any of that. Duran Duran’s 1982 video for “Save a Prayer” was directed by Russell Mulcahy and shot in Sri Lanka at the same time as their videos for “ Hungry Like the Wolf” and “Lonely in Your Nightmare.” I don’t know if Sri Lanka saw an upswing in tourism after this hit the airwaves, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
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