First of all, this is my personal interpretation. I’m not in the director/band minds so these are just the associations I made while watching the video. Secondly, English is not my native language so... sorry for any mistakes.

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- Francis Bacon , Self Portrait

- Venus of Milo  || R.Mapplethorpe, female torso

- R.Mapplethorpe, Untitled (Self-Portrait) || Alexander Charles Guillemot,  Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan

- David Bowie - Rebel Rebel ( @ TopPop )

- R.Mapplethorpe, Ken Moody with shoe

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1.)

When I saw the scene of Damiano pressing his face against the glass my mind went directly to Francis Bacon‘s paintings (and  to Ana Mendieta‘s series of “Glass on body imprints” [x] ).

It’s an image meant to ‘disturb’ us and I see the use of this ‘’visual shock’’ as a challenge to our perception.  It make us look at something we know in a different and altered way. And, at the same time ( with the lipstick put messily on his lips before he smears it against the glass and take it off with his arms), it can be seen as some sort of critcism on 'beauty canons' .

2.)

Thomas posing on a black background with black gloves to give the illusion of missing arms ( wearing the “Venus in chain” leather belt ) is a clear reference to the Venus of Milo. One of the most famous sculpture ever and an universal symbol of beautyness and sensuality.

( another reference, since they used a lot of his shots as inspiration, could be Mapplethorpe’s "female torso”). 

3.)

The net in symbology means ‘ to be trapped in something’ and, I believe, this ‘something’ in our case can be:

- society’s chains: what we are told to be since we are born, the roles that are forced on us, social constructs in general etc. (Ethan and Thomas being almost naked = true self )

A similar concept is expressed by Mapplethorpe in one of his earliest works, a collage that represents 'his being mentally and physically victim of cultural and psycholgical torment'.

-  our passions:  desire becoming obsession, being entangled in an intense, toxic or wrong relationship/situation ... succumbing to lust and its consequences ( like in the myth of The Net of Vulcan*).

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* [ the god Vulcan, after being informed of his wife’s (Venus) infidelity with Mars, fashioned a net ‘so fine to be invisible and yet so strong to be unbreakable’ and set it on their bed to catch the pair and expose them to the others gods. ]

4.)

Everyone thought about Madonna as Madame X but, when I saw the eye patch, I immediately thought about David Bowie’s look during this performance of  “Rebel Rebel” in 1974.

(The song is about  ‘a boy rebelling against his parents by wearing makeup and women's clothes’ and it speaks of young people desire to release their own individuality and uniqueness.)

5.)

During an interview with the director it was specified that the scene with Ethan holding the red shoe is inspired by one of Mapplethorpe's shots and, while we can just see it as a hint to that specific fetish, the red high heels can also represents desires in general.

And, in fact, the director also said that he decided to insert a red element in (almost) every shot to represent a point where the ‘desires‘ the song talk about would be channelled in.