Steven Hale
Jun 1, 2021

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I listened to the music from the soundtrack first. Then I watched the clip you singled out.

The music itself is quietly powerful. It reminds me of Olafur Arnald's Living Room Songs (here's one of them: https://youtu.be/SDezzDQVy6M ).

The video montage that plays over the song is equally powerful. And so is the clip of Baldwin that follows.

Just my perspective: A good soundtrack doesn't dominate the film nor does it disappear into the background. The emotional impact of the song in this film is equally indebted to the composition itself, the video editing / subjects in the montage, and the entirety of Baldwin's eloquent statement as a human being--not just the sentences in the clip, but certainly those.

You've chosen a powerful example of what art can do.

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Steven Hale
Steven Hale

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Music: Discovering the lost and forgotten. Politics: Exposing injustice. Screenwriting: Emotional storytelling.

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