23rd
Regina Spektor - Hero
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Okay, so I’d like to preface this post with two things:
1) I actually like some Regina Spektor. Not love, but I like her music.
2) I really, REALLY thoroughly enjoyed 500 Days of Summer.
With those two things out of the way:
WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING WITH THE PLACEMENT OF THIS SONG?
Again, I should probably give the director and his crew some slack, as it really fit for a fair bit of the scene in which it was used (I’m trying to avoid spoilers, here).
A lot of this track really highlighted the differences between Tom’s expectations and his reality. I don’t know about the lyrics (still haven’t listened all that much). But goddammit, they were just WRONG for the ending.
“I’m the hero of this story” came at the perfect moment. But it should have cut out shortly after, in favour of the ambient noise — or even silence — as the street turned into a sketch.
Look, I love well-placed music in movies. But this just killed the moment.
