In the music video for "Elastic Heart" I see the man as an addict almost and maddie being the drug or the addiction it shows how when he lives with her(the drug disease whatever it was) its a struggle and he's always battling his mind and against the addiction. When maddie escapes the cage it shows how broken ad alone the man in the cage is. In one sense I view the cage and a mind setting for the man with the addiction meaning he feels like he's trapped and there's no way out. I viewed this video again after writing that point of view and I saw something else, I saw maddie as almost a spirit type thing. The man was trying to grow up and get rid of his sense of childlike ways. So him fighting maddie reminded me that adults are trying to grow up but once they have grown up there is no going back (the part when maddie makes it out of the cage).