Reported from Simple Plan Online:

Perhaps Simple Plan and Good Charlotte will spend their upcoming co-headlining tour discussing the works of existentialist Jean-Paul Sarte or decrying the appointment of ultraconservative Paul Wolfowitz as the head of the World Bank. Because, wow, both groups have gotten plenty serious all of a sudden.

It all started last week, when Good Charlotte filmed the woe-is-the-world video for their new single, "We Believe" (see "Good Charlotte Take Off The Hamburger Suits, Decry Human Suffering In New Clip"). And now Simple Plan are upping the angst ante with the clip for their new single, "Untitled."

In the video — directed by Marc Klasfeld (Sum 41, Thursday) — the normally rambunctious Montreal pop-punkers are tackling the very serious issue of drunk driving. It's a pretty mature step for a band that spent the majority of its last video dancing on tables and smashing ice sculptures (see "If You're Into Ice Sculptures, Simple Plan Are Not The Band For You"), a fact that SP frontman Pierre Bouvier seems painfully aware of.

"It's the first artsy Simple Plan video," he said. "We're going to go mature like everyone else."
"It's a mini movie," added drummer Chuck Comeau. "It's going to make people cry."

They sound like they're joking, but they're not. Bouvier spends the entire video as a ghost, wandering amongst the tangled wreckage of a two-car collision. As rain pours down on the side of a lonely highway, viewers see that in one car, a teenage girl is trapped against her steering wheel, clinging to life. The driver of the other car — a young man — sits by the roadside, head in hands, a giant cut on his forehead.

Police and EMTs — played by the other members of the band — arrive on the scene, a whir of flashing lights caught in slow motion. They try to pry the injured girl from her car as police give the male driver a breathalyzer test, which he fails miserably.

Then the video takes a turn, as we are shown the friends and loved ones of the two drivers, going about their daily routines. As they shop, garden and work, they seem totally unaware of the tragic car crash that will soon occur. As Klasfeld writes in his treatment, he hopes to show that drunk driving affects other people, not just those directly involved.

The video cuts back to the accident scene, where the chaos of police flares and broken glass is captured in slow motion. A crowd has gathered at the perimeter of the accident scene, and Bouvier stands amongst the onlookers, undetected. EMTs have removed the girl from her tangled vehicle and are placing her on a stretcher. In the background, officers are handcuffing the drunk driver and are throwing him in a police cruiser.

The clip then cuts between the girl being rushed to the hospital in the back of an ambulance and the young man being taken to jail. As the video reaches its climax, we see what led up to the accident — the two cars heading down a dark highway, the girl singing along to music while the drunk driver nods off at the wheel. As the two vehicles barrel down on each other, we cut to the friends and relatives of the young man and woman, their bodies suddenly jolted and thrown against the floor as if they were in a car crash.

As the video fades to black, the girl is pronounced dead while the drunk driver weeps in a jail cell. Bouvier leaves the now empty accident scene, walking off into the rain.

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Man, I cannot tell you how FUCKING AWESOME this film clip is. The day before it was released, since I'm a member of the Simple Plan Invasion Crew, I got an email with a 30 second preview n that jus left me wanting more!! The next day, the full clip was emailed to everyone in the Invasion Crew, but my computa being a bit slow, it didn't wrk properly so I watched it properly that nite on Vicki's computa.

Man, it affected me. It's pretty much exactly as reported above EXCEPT at the end where it says 'weeps in a jail cell', the drunk driver is getting his jail photo taken n the sign being help up (u kno, with their numbers n name?) had P.Cunningham on it so, there'z a mention of Patrick in there even tho u never saw him. He wasnt the drunk driver, btw...people did speculate it mite be him but it definitely isn't. Also, it says 'the friends and loved ones of the two drivers' -> not true. It was just the four members of the girl's family (mum, dad, sister, brother).

It's mainly Pierre featured in the video clip; him singing while it poared with rain and everything was happening around him, BUT the other four guys ARE in the film clip. Chuck and David are officers present at the scene; you can see them when it shows the officer holding the shoulder of the other, and pointing out to the (right) side. Chuck is the one pointing, David is the other. Jeff and Seb are ambulance officers (dressed in yellow) -> u dont see a particluar view of them BUT wen it shows the ambo guys bending over the girl (from her POV), Jeff and Seb are two of them.

It was an amazing film clip. It realy shows how everyone can be effected by sumthing like this, and how drink driving can destroy so many lives. I've got it saved onto my computa n I watch it every now n then -> it'z realy good. I've posted sum pics below of the guys from within the Untitled clip...so go to the Simple Plan site and look under 'videos' to see the full video...