Does anyone know why director and composer would choose a main theme so deliberately boring? If one compares this to "Presumed Innocent", which is equally obsessive music for another crime drama, we see Williams remains intriguing even with that amount of repetition. But in this film a theme that was designed to sound more mundane than a street corner is repeated in a boring, trivial way. I don't like it, to tell you the truth -- and the one thing I can say to mitigate this judgment is that the whole soundtrack was composed and produced in 3 weeks (replacing another soundtrack), which itself is a tremendous workflow error, in spite of most Hollywood composers bragging about their "heroism" in accepting such self-sabotage. The film is great in spite of the music, which helps it none.
It has great atmosphere and presence and fits the film perfectly
So good
Geniale
Does anyone know why director and composer would choose a main theme so deliberately boring? If one compares this to "Presumed Innocent", which is equally obsessive music for another crime drama, we see Williams remains intriguing even with that amount of repetition. But in this film a theme that was designed to sound more mundane than a street corner is repeated in a boring, trivial way. I don't like it, to tell you the truth -- and the one thing I can say to mitigate this judgment is that the whole soundtrack was composed and produced in 3 weeks (replacing another soundtrack), which itself is a tremendous workflow error, in spite of most Hollywood composers bragging about their "heroism" in accepting such self-sabotage.
The film is great in spite of the music, which helps it none.
The music matches how unforgivably depressing the film is, especially the part that keeps repeating throughout the film