Christopher & The Sound of Music (or Lackthereof)
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Christopher & The Sound of Music (or Lackthereof)
So I've just recently re-watched the film and I dunno why this just occurred to me, but, I've noticed almost no music (I.E. Silent Hill's Score) is played whenever the film's narrative switches from Rose & Cybil back to Christoper (and Gucci, whenever those two had scenes together) outside of those two scenes from the beginning --- when he searches Rose's browser history of the day --- and the end when all is said and done and Christopher is alone in the "Real World" without his family.
...If memory serves me correctly anyhow.
...If memory serves me correctly anyhow.
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Well, I rewatched it and with the exception the scene where Christopher feels Rose's presence in the Otherworld of Silent Hill (at the school), I was pretty much spot on with the "almost no music" whenever the narrative shifted from Rose/Cybil to Christopher/Gucci after those two scenes I mentioned in the OP. If there was music, it usual began at the very end of his sequence (and the beginning of the Otherworld scene), or ended at of the end of Otherworld sequences and shifted back to his.
I do agree that the lack of music was probably to ground the fact that Christopher was in the "Real World" as opposed to Rose, which the score of Silent Hill was pretty much intended for.
I do agree that the lack of music was probably to ground the fact that Christopher was in the "Real World" as opposed to Rose, which the score of Silent Hill was pretty much intended for.
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Also sometimes silence can be a specific choice, I know of a lot of movies which chose to use no music at all for particular scenes or even for the entire movie, in some cases substituting certain background noise/sounds for music, such as the sound of a passing train in the Godfather (oh what an amazing scene!). I'm pretty sure if this is right and Chris' scenes have no music, it was so that his scenes further succeed in bringing the viewer 'back to reality'.
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