The I'll Follow You Into the Dark video
....does not lend itself to Christian symbolism.

This song by Death Cab for Cutie, is about a lot of things - love, death, faithfulness, but the video uses its own imagery to illustrate the tensions.



Some of the lyrics:

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

I think the whole song turns around this rejection of "fear as the heart of love." Love is built on courage, and in this song, on facing death together. So when the man falls, he comes to learn that what he was afraid of isn't so bad after all. He can live without fear, having faced his own death. (Or maybe - he dies, and the death is not the terrible thing he expected it to be. It's ambiguous what the fall symbolizes.)

I think I part ways with the song on the idea that human love alone can survive death. But the promise of resurrection is the promise that God's love is greater than death - that God follows us into the dark.