Music in Sleeping with the Enemy

[mxl...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu]

I just saw Sleeping with the Enemy on the Cable. Does
anyone notice that the background music is the same music in
Kubrick's Shinning ? I don't like the former. The characters
are too flat and the story is tasteless.

Mei-yuei Lee

[Elizabeth G. Levy]

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique was that film's attempt at a
leitmotiv. The Shining used the Dies Irae, which Berlioz
parodied/blashpemed in that particular work. Arguably, the
symphony has to do with obsession: the music's "protagonist"
is a young composer (Berlioz wasn't too subtle) who's madly
in love with this woman. When he's spurned or betrayed, he
takes lots of drugs and has some weird dreams, including his
own execution and a subsequent damnation to a witch's sabbath
(wherein we hear the parody of the Dies Irae, and wherein
we see the woman as an evil witch cavorting with satyrs).
Berlioz wrote this to get the attention of some actress.

Yes, the movie was bad. I know one person who liked it, but
then she didn't like Silence of the Lambs, so her taste in
film is somewhat suspect.

--
Cheng-Jih Chen using Liz's account. Back in the land of snow & stress...

[Itai Zukerman]

I have a question to those that have seen The Vanishing. If you
haven't seen it yet, get out while you still can...

What's the significance of naming things? I'm refering to that
part where the young couple are in the car and they're playing
that game where they name things in different languages. And
then obviously at the very end the "pursuer" screams "My name
is ..." after he's buried alive. I think names play a role in
other parts of the movie, but can't remember where. This seems
really significant, but I just don't get it. Is there some
philosophical/psychological explanation or theory?

Thanks plenty.

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