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Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
I have the soundtrack to this film, IIRC the music for it was by and large done by Mike Oldfield, no? |
Yes, but--do you remember the composition that the Cambodian boy who accompanies the Western "hero" through the film listens to, all the time? The work he describes as having an unearthly beauty. Those were Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs, as he mentions. They are featured several times during the film. Rather than being composed to create an atmosphere alone, they also feature in the plot in a sense, as an example of the character's striving for something ideal, something that reaches beyond the horror of the environment.