Together, We Will Live Forever (from the soundtrack)

We watched The Fountain tonight. Hugh Jackman, if that makes any difference. I wonder if his role in The Prestige had anything to do with it. They were more similar than I expected.

As was the film to Pan’s Labrynth, actually (which has no connection whatsoever to Hugh Jackman as far as I’m aware). Both evoke… a very raw sort of emotional pain. Deep-rooted, way down at the core where you know the world is completely broken and there’s nothing you can humanly do to change that. The feeling that comes when you watch your heroes die (/me bows to Ronnie Day) and you watch her walk away for the last time.

But you know how that goes.

Both leave the viewer (who, by that time, either feels like they did when they knew King Kong was going to be shot down or is entirely void of any emotional capacity) with a sensation of having missed. I’ve talked about this before, and while I’m not motivated enough atm to look up that particular discussion, it’s like… being able to see what could happen, then coming so close to achieving it you know you’ll succeed, and then seeing yourself, from a distance, fall completely and hopelessly short.

But you know how that goes.

The film’s score ends with the song I posted above. Together, we will live forever. How do you feel about that? About the idea of death as an act of creation? Death was his road to awe.

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Anyway. I couldn’t really let that mood go, so… on to more music. Feelings created by the film as a whole, and set firmly in place with the soundtrack… yeah. If you’re specially and particularly bored, look up the song ‘eppur si muove’ by Enigma. There are two Enigmas out there, I think, and there are also two songs bearing the aforementioned title. Good luck. Listen to the track up above first – if you find an Eppur Si Muove that doesn’t shock you after hearing both in succession, you’ve found the right one.

Cheers –

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I wrote a song called that, a long time ago. Stay with me, I love you. Few lyrics, it was all about musickal ambience. Heh. Back in the winsome days of… last year. Do you ever lose the feeling that you’ve never really grown up, or that maturity’s definition always expands beyond you?

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