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Forget Gladiator; this is, by far, the best score ever written for any movie. Listen for it and you will find it. No other score has so fully reflects the feelings running through its film; this score not only accomplishes this to an astounding, even haunting, degree, but it also immeasurably deepens those feelings. In a way, each piece of this score seem to contain all human emotions simultaneously: it bleeds sorrow, it strengthens hope, it stirs anger, it both tranquilizes and agitates. This holism, this completeness, makes the music, as others have said, inexplicably haunting. But beyond emotions, this music will prompt you to think, as if ideas flicker subtly beneath the melodies and the harmonies: ideas about human potential, ambition, sacrifice, and strife.
This OST Is powerful and memorial. A few of the selections are a bit busy and to happy , but the over all work is grand. Very emotional and motivational.
I first saw this movie five years ago, and to this day it is still just as captivating, with a beautiful haunting score.
Michael Nyman wrote a feast of music for this haunting sci-fi film. It's wonderful to have a soundtrack that is this good, one that you don't have to be hovering nearby in order to skip a track or two (or five)., because each track is equally lovely. A musically majestic piece of work---Bravo.
To be honest, I didn't get this movie the first few times I saw pieces of it on television (I never had a chance to see it in the theaters). I had to order the album online, as the record stores don't seem to carry it anymore. The music is affecting, sorrowful, uplifting. It's a movie about hope, about never giving up, about not saving anything for the way back. And I'm glad the soundtrack only includes Michael Nyman's music-- it's the emotional core of the movie, and what I hungered to feel inside. Michael Nyman's score gives depth and poignancy to the story and characters, and a resonance. But once I saw the complete movie, my feelings about it changed. I'm so glad I did.
During the viewing in which I was finally reached by this story, I started hearing the music for the first time. It's incredibly moving and strong. perfect. A masterpiece of human feeling.
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