Many factors combine to make this an eery video. Hopkins’ body language seems remote and forced, as of an animated wax figure. I think this is partly a change in mannerism over the years. But the poor synching, the black and white, and the beat also contribute.
And I think it will shortly seem more appropriate than it does even now.
“Oh, my friend, we’re older but no wiser.”
The phrase that is running through my mind is “carnival of the damned.”