Music

The film brings the feelings alive for me because it focuses on two key senses: sight and hearing. Personally, this is why I like the film more than the story. The film is able to show a lot more without telling cause that's what pictures do, while the story is just a narrated fiction.

The use of music is something that's been really interesting to me. Every lanscape shot comes with the quiet acoustic guitar and pedal steel in that picking pattern that sometimes resolves on a disonant or augmented note, which can induce the feeling of a potential issue arising, that when all seems perfect, something could go wrong, or just not as planned. It's a note that surprises the listener, it's not an expected note, not as cliched. One example of this I found interesting after they have sex and ennis is riding away, i think. I don't have netflix i can't check, but the music is very fitting.

As the movie goes on, the music becomes more full and more paramount with the addition of a string section in the same theme. The more emotional the scene, the stronger the strings.

the bands that play during the dances sing songs that evoke some interesting emotion. When ennis is at the bar and the cassie puts on "sweet melissa" by the allman brothers, i was expecting her to have some big role in that scene, and then they start dancing. Of course cassie is no melissa, that's jack. Ennis will be "running home to" (song lyrics) jack.