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...stage is only one part of this show. Even more important is the soundtrack, in which Eliot's poem is made to undergo transformations he couldn't have imagined, and probably wouldn't much care for. Here, too, the sheer achievement is impressive; sound designer Amar Hamoudi prolongs a poem that would take five minutes to read aloud into a rhapsody of sound. Hamoudi, along with O'Maley, creates a series of moods based on the speed and intonation of the speaking voice, enhanced by various beats, snatches of music and random snatches of speech. (Some fragments of "The Waste...
...through on its vision." Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed by others. The spiritualized, bass-heavy 'Who You Are' is a solid number but it clearly owes a lot to Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, with whom Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder worked on the soundtrack to the film 'Dead Man Walking.' Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker 'Smile' sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo; it's pleasant enough, but it lacks the ornery soul of the genuine article. "Hopefully," says Farley, "this is just...
...through on its vision." Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed by others. The spiritualized, bass-heavy 'Who You Are' is a solid number but it clearly owes a lot to Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, with whom Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder worked on the soundtrack to the film 'Dead Man Walking.' Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker 'Smile' sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo; it's pleasant enough, but it lacks the ornery soul of the genuine article. "Hopefully," says Farley, "this is just...
Lest anyone start to coo over this little gem of the movie, Holofcener knows enough to drop a barb or two: driving home from the country house with Amelia and Laura, with the touching soundtrack running full speed, Frank loudly asks whether they're going to have to listen to "this vagina music" the whole ride...
Chief among such MTV-style additions is the incessant soundtrack which accompanies the characters' every move. This is a movie that has to indicate a scene's deep emotion by turning off the music, not turning it on. When Renton's going into withdrawal, you know from the muted, beta-wave techno beat that it'll be a typical, painless cold turkey exercise in fantasy: he'll be fine, whatever the psychedelic hallucinations. It's as if the filmmakers had some quota to fill for the movie's soundtrack album...