// love hurts, love scars…(c)
Two minutes…That’s how long it took after pressing play for me to start googling the soundtrack. I still don’t really get why I kept putting this movie off. The music is insanely good. And the movie itself too. If you haven’t seen it yet, honestly, just trust me, it’s worth it. And the less you know before you start, the better it works. Seriously. Don’t watch the trailer, don’t google the plot, the cast, or the reviews. Just turn it on and let it pull you in — the tension, the visuals, the sound. It’s not really about what happens. It’s about how it feels. This isn’t a movie you watch and think, “yeah, that was nice.” It’s more about the tension. You’re done watching, but it doesn’t let go right away, stays in your head long after the movie ends.
A lot of that comes from the music by Z Berg. It isn’t just background sound, it’s woven into the story itself. Quiet, acoustic ballads that sound like they could’ve been recorded in the ’70s on old tape, but without that dusty, overdone retro feeling. Somehow they still sound clean and current. Vintage, but sharper than nostalgic. Everything feels very deliberate, very precise.
I really wish I could watch this again in a movie theater on a big screen, with that full, immersive sound you can feel vibrating through your body.
// What it awakens:
∙ nostalgia
∙ a subtle, hard-to-explain anxiety
∙ the urge to rewatch it
∙ wanting to play the music out loud, not in headphones
∙ the need to drive somewhere at night, for no real reason