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Have You Tried the Score Cry?
It feels good to shed tears during a movie. It feels even better to bawl your brains out to a soundtrack.
In fact, James Gray’s The Lost City of Z and Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice did not move me to tears when I watched them as films; it was only after seeing the movies, living with the weight of them, and then later listening to the soundtracks that I wept. Take Yves Thibaudet’s “Liz on Top of the World,” from the latter film, which plays over Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) as she stands atop a literal cliff and a figurative precipice of love. The first comment on the unofficial upload of the song on YouTube sums it all up with a succinct “:’(.” But it was only when I could focus on the doleful plucks of harp in Spelman’s music, or the swoon of strings in Thibaudet’s, that I could hear the sheer emotion I’d previously seen.
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