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Most extraordinary soundtrack I've ever heard. Others?


From the opening scenes to the close, the music had an extraordinary character. In the bell-like sections, I heard gamelan-like melodies played on the saron, appropriate as we saw an Indonesian/Malaysian theatre mask on the wall of the musician's home at one point. His musical world was wide. The incredible voices - I can't even describe. Need to get the soundtrack.

Now, I might have preferred a non-corny and intense movie about difficulties in a friendship, as suggested in the advertising, rather than one that tips into psychological horror. Can't help feeling these people are archetypal - the woman who betters herself through applying her own clear-thinking mind, the village idiot and the idiotic village that believes in him.

And I don't in the least care for horror, and don't want to see the gore, but it's the gore that got us to P sitting in his chair with the dead animal's head on his lap. I couldn't help thinking of the famous Godfather scene with the horse's head, and how the power symbolism of that is so inverted here. Something about a loser mentality and a strong neurotic trait. And yet the great artist, lauded in Celtic culture to the present day, is a self-destructive monster. And everyman or the village-idiot, which may be idiocracying into a single thing, when deeply disrespected, of course turns into an utter psychopath.

I'll have to watch it a few more times to understand more than 10 percent of the psychology here. And I had no problem understanding the words; that's not what I'm saying.

A deep subject or three or four, given an extraordinarily emotionally weighty soundtrack that is in no way provincial, yet suited to its place and time.

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