Rihanna’s “Diamonds” Video Shows RiRi At Her Rawest (Our Hearts, They Break!)

The video touts the highly-promoted video of Rihanna smoking diamonds (Symbolism alert: All of that fantasy and fancy are meant to just simply go up in smoke...?), but it's the exposed, black-and-white images of Rihanna that are most arresting. She runs away from a car a la
Kiss Me Deadly,
but stops because something catches her attention. She sits pensively in a room that is slowly shattering, but keeps her eyes locked with the camera. And lastly, a figure that looks suspiciously like her famous ex walks through streets ablaze with fire. Rihanna, for the most part, spends her time staring at the camera, saddened and introspective, reminding us that she doesn't need gyration or smokey eyes to be one of the most evocative, beautiful women in the world.