 Gaga teased on Twitter that the video would be her longest and " the beginning of the story I never told you . " On November 11 , 2011 , she posted a still from the video on Twitter that shows her as she is sent down a hallway on a stretcher by two nurses . The post was accompanied by the message " It 's not that I 've been dishonest , it 's just that I loathe reality . " James Montgomery of MTV News compared the scene — known as " The Prelude Pathétique " — to the 1975 drama film One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest and the 1980 horror film The Shining . Gaga teased a two @-@ minute opening sequence of the music video on November 17 , 2011 , after her performance at Children In Need Rocks Manchester . 
