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no music towards the end of the film


I just wanted to say that I thought that not putting any music towards the end of the film was a good production choice by the filmmakers. Normally you hear lots of music during emotional scenes of movies, and while I appreciate and enjoy soundtracks and film scores, but I think that it was actually a little more powerful to use the actual content of the movie to tell the story, which was in my opinion moving enough on it's own. I noticed as the movie was about 2/3rds of the way through as they were showing photographs and things of that nature that they were appearing on screen in silence, and I made a conscious effort to pay closer attention than I normally would to the music, and actually found myself hoping they wouldn't ruin the emotionally profound nature of the film by queueing up sappy or sad music. in the background. I think waiting for the end credits to bring back the music was a good decision. Anyway, insightful movie. Not the type of film I usually watch, because I don't really relate, not being gay or HIV/AIDS positive and so forth, but.. while I think saying I "enjoyed" it is the wrong choice of words, I did find it poignant and moving, and I am glad I decided to see it. Humanity is very fragile as a whole, and all of us have lost someone that we love at some point in our lives, and can definitely, if nothing else, relate to the pain that these people feel and continue to live with. Thank you.

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