I’m struck by how the video almost never lets us see Blue’s face even though the song is about and for her and named after her. We see lots of clips of Blue (her feet, legs, hair, etc), but there are only two moments where we get a head on face shot. One is through a window glass, and the other is a very tight shot, so we are mostly getting her eyes and a little bit of her cheeks. There’s a moment where we get the full body and a fair amount of her face, but it’s only a quarter profile because she’s actually walking away from the camera and has turned back to make a connection with her mom. All three of these moments only happen at the very end, when the song has pretty much ended. In contrast, we see a great deal of Mama Beyonce’s face. How does us not seeing Blue’s face (or maybe it’s about us seeing her body in piecemeal?), create or challenge ideas of the innocent child?