Originally Posted by zyoeru (Post 2161981)

^ I read that the director said the black paint is blood, but they didn't want it to have an adult rating.

Originally Posted by Picaflor 7/4 (Post 2169278)

or before she died she decided to take out a few birds.

Originally Posted by ~Saru (Post 2169301)

I thought it would interlink with the lyrics?
"If I could flutter like a bird
I would fly to you
And offer my wing
To your wounded back"

Like she gives that person her wing, hense the feathers and blood. Like the wing has been torn from her back to help that person. So they both have a wing each.

Originally Posted by zelenk0 (Post 2169247)

I wasn't sure what was going on myself at first, but I'm pretty sure after watching a few times that she's being tarred and feathered

Originally Posted by JinHamasaki (Post 483021)

The official "Moments" synopsis.

*In this PV you might realize that the make-up on the white dress Ayumi's face a little weird because the make-up artist doing this to show Ayumi be crying on the bed for sometime and a little pale.

The opening of this PV you could see Ayumi is sleeping on her bed. While sleeping there is some flash of herself lying in a pool of blood of a dark place and the flower doll's room. When she had opened her eyes the door is opened for her which lure her out to see what's out there. She got up from her bed and lighted up a torch to guide her through the darkness of her house. Ayumi is doing this because she's in a darkness that she couldn't depend on herself much.

After lighted up the torch she walked out of her room to check what's going wrong. While walking there is some flash back where she's sleeping in her bed. I guess you had thought of it. She's actually dreaming. Back to where we were, hlaf way through the walking Ayumi stoped and stare at the door. Those kids that will appear later on in this PV should be sleeping in this room or making some noise from this room that used to be, but it didn't. Let's put it this way that all those little kids represent a Ayumi's lover. She knew that they're not here and kept on looking for them. Then she pass by another door which had bird singing sound coming out and she could feel it's not them.
As you know if you truly love someone for very long and deep you could feel the presense of that person. She could sense that herself in danger too, but she thought if she didn't open that door which had the sound of birds singing. She could run away from it. That's why she wrote " Your naked heart is wandering, having nowhere to go. Your surrounding growing sharp thorns around for fear of being touched."

You must be wondering why didn't she open and couldn't sense other doors that she had walked pass. This is because Ayumi place her love before anything else and even herself. She's getting near to a door which she felt the presense of her lover which is those little naughty kids. In this room showing those little kids playing with dolls and a doll's room which looked like the room that Ayumi is sleeping in the opening. Those little kids also got surround by many beautiful flowers. Those flowers is actually Ayumi herself. In the lyric of " Moments " Ayumi wrote " If my life transient like a flower. I would be a full bloom by your side and after watching your smile. I would
fall alone, just quietly. " Those little kids that's playing around with dolls had torn one of the dolls body apart. This is also mean that Ayumi is the dolls too. Let's put it this way that i'm your doll and you could whatever you want to me and i would be glad to do whatever you want as long as you'll treasure me, but the wrost nightmare is that you'll destroy me and left me behide when you're tired of me. Those kids suddenly turn into big wood dolls. That meaning no matter how a good-looking a person could they're just builded up of bones. Instead of showing bones they turn it into big wood dolls.

The doll is spoiled and the fun of those little kids had came to an end and they run out of the room without finding someway to fix back the doll and started looking for something new and fun to play with till they're tired of it. This show that how human sometime play with love. Starting of it you'll learn to treasure that someone and spent money and love and time on that person, but when you're tired of that person you'll pelt that person away without caring how that person truly felt. Those little kids had found Ayumi's bedroom and they started to play with it. As you can see Ayumi is lying in a pool of blood in a dark place. I had realized that many people had been wondering what's that liquid thing. Is it oil? Or is it blood? Well... It's actually both. We had chosen to use black oil mixed with a little crimson color to make it look a little like blood. They're doing this because they fear that this PV will get violent rating. Ayumi always believed that Angel's wings is made of human hope, wish and dream. Those little kids that torn the doll's body apart like they had tear off Ayumi's wings. That's also why she wrote " The broken pieces of your dream sticks on to my chest. Leaving the pain that I'll never forget. " After those little kids is tired of playing in Ayumi's bedroom they simply leave and Ayumi is suffering in her own agony alone and the mess they left behind..."

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0 (Post 2170722)

In modern times the term "tarring & feathering" has become synonymous with punishment or humiliation. If someone says they've been "tarred & feathered", colloquially, that means they've been made to feel small or weak or embarrassed, as though they messed something up, and now they feel beneath those around them.

In the context of "Moments," this would come across as Ayu putting herself "beneath" the subject of the song, feeling as though she is powerless to help them as much as she longs to, and that she deserves punishment for this weakness.

The lyrics do reflect this to some degree; that there is only so much Ayu can do to relieve the subject's pain, and she feels guilty about it. The pain in his heart is pain in hers; but even if she gave him the wings off her back, she only has one set of wings to give. Even if she blooms as a flower by his side, she can only bloom once before dying. Even if she approches him, he has thorns around him that prevent her from ever touching him. There's a tinge of guilt & remorse to these lyrics, and Ayu might feel she must be punished, tarred & feathered, for her human limitations.

Keep in mind, this is ALL conjecture, I have no idea if this was the intention or not.

Originally Posted by Larien (Post 2172132)

I always thought of it as tar, though in actuality they probably used craploads of molasses, or something. :P