Guns N Roses - Estranged - Live at Hollywood Bowl - 11/02/2023

The video is the third and final chapter in Guns N' Roses' massively popular "November Rain music video trilogy" (preceded by "Don't Cry" and "November Rain"). It was directed by Andy Morahan and written by frontman Axl Rose himself.[9] While "Don't Cry" and "November Rain" have a strong similarity (they both stage a sort of motion picture film told in vignettes and following the story of a romantic relationship),[9] "Estranged" has very little connection to the previous story of the two previous videos.[9] This is mainly because Axl Rose's then-girlfriend Stephanie Seymour (who played the vocalist's girlfriend in "Don't Cry" and "November Rain") had broken up with Rose before shooting the video, forcing him and the director to abandon the original plans for the shooting of "Estranged",[9] thus leading to a thematic disconnection with the first two.[9] However, this does not mean that the cinematic style was also lost, since "Estranged" has visuals that evoke the first two videos.

The video shows Axl Rose being arrested by a group of special police officers, then taken to a mental health clinic, as definitions of various emotional disorders are seen on the screen.[9] The protagonist (Rose) talks to the therapists about his emotional problems; a topic that was depicted in the video for "Don't Cry." In the end, the protagonist is released from the clinic and heads to an abandoned ship at sea,[9] where the story reaches its climax: Rose jumps into the water and swims with a group of dolphins, gaining inner peace by doing so