Later in “Apeshit,” a painting of a crying woman clinging from below to a man in anguish (the two trapped in “hell” for adultery) is followed by a contemporary scene of a black man leaning his head peacefully on the chest of a woman as she holds him. When the two are kissing and caressing one another, they’re at eye level; neither is the more dominant.
This juxtaposition between the painting and the scene of the man and woman shows the video's intent to rewrite societal norms that have been embedded for hundreds of years. While the painting shows a helpless, desperate woman who is physically below the man, the modern scene in the video demonstrates the new, equal standard for hetero relationships.