What I found to be the greatest use of sound was the country
western music that became a common theme throughout the story. This snippet of
music was first used around 6:10 when Starlee reads the names that are engraved
on the belt buckle. Carson’s father had a theory that these men were cowboys,
so the cowboy music helped create an image of what these men may have looked
like. The music is used again at 16:30, when a witness who had Hans as a
culinary professor sees Hans in civilian clothing for the first time. The
witness says, “…and then we see Hans,” which cues the cowboy music. He describes
Hans as a “Swiss cowboy” wearing jeans and cowboy boots. The music captures the
essence of Hans’s cowboy persona.
My favorite tangent was at 19:20. The same witness from
culinary school talks about “either/or situations” that we are faced with
everyday, and how our decisions determine our fate. He says that if he wouldn’t
have gotten an “A” in Hans class, he would not have gone back to school and
would have never met his wife. This tangent sets up a theme for the rest of the
story as Starlee finds many other either/or situations that could have changed
the fate of the belt buckle.
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