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Title: Missing lots of music from the film
Review: Julian Schnabel ultilized much more music than this osundtrack provides. Two essential missing pieces:(1) the police raid of the fiesta (the one which Javier's tour guide friend takes him to) contains a three minute montage to the adaigetto of Mahler's 5th symphony (which is by the way, a very banal and naive use of music).(2) The music depicting the sea and Javier's disasterious flight from Cuba on the makeshift raft is lifted from Popol Vuh's original soundtrack to Werner Herzog's "Aguire the Wrath of God". In fact, Schnabel shamelessly copies Herzog's use of the music- to depict the enorminty of nature compared to miniscue man.Final word, this film is too sappy- Schnabel is not humble enough, because his craft remains weak.
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