MookyBear

the music sets in at the exact moment Rocky asks "so, Grace die, question" and at the start it's these lonely double heartbeats with no anchor and so much near-silence in between that they just float through empty space (pun intended). the change starts as soon as Rocky says "Rocky watch crew die. Could not fix. Grace say Grace will die. Rocky fix", and slowly but surely the heartbeats become steady and solid, from then on consistently underpinning the music. and the strings set in and suddenly there is substance to the music again. And then when Rocky says "Grace go home" the choir starts, human voices in the music that literally call grace home to his own planet, which is so freaking powerful. The music then softens when Grace goes into the hug, and when Rocky thumps against the glass in reply, it's like the choir exhales one final time as if in relief.

And I'm sure someone with more musical knowledge will know whether the chords switch from minor to major or something like that, but I don't know enough music maths to provide that side of the analysis. I just think the piece is a masterclass of how a scene and its music can be intertwined and work together. You can feel it, even when you can't understand it yet. And I think that's beautiful.

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