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Beth GarrabrantTaylor Swift s new video for "Fortnight," which she wrote and directed, is a black-and-white fantasia of paper, rain and a dash of Poor Things.The clip starts with Taylor, in heavy makeup and a fancy gown, handcuffed to a hospital bedframe that s affixed halfway up a wall in what looks like a mental hospital cell. She frees herself and stares in the mirror; as she wipes her face, her duet partner Post Malone s tattoos magically appear on it.Next, Taylor s in an office, wearing a black, old-fashioned gown like the one her friend Emma Stone wore in the movie Poor Things. She and Post Malone sit at different typewriters, typing at each other as colored clouds emanate from their machines.Cut to Taylor and Post lying together on a huge silhouette of Taylor s face made up of white pages. They embrace tenderly as the pages swirl around them, and we see that all of Post s facial tattoos have disappeared.Next, we re in a lab where Taylor is strapped to a table, being st