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· Year: 2000
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1. Visions
2. Reflections of Elijah
3. Weightlifting
4. Hieroglyphics
5. Falling Down
6. Unbreakable
7. Goodnight
8. The Wreck
9. Second Date
10. School Nurse
11. Blindsided
12. The Orange Man
13. Carrying Audrey
14. Mr. Glass / End Title
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Trip-hop and orchestral score from the 2000 film Unbreakable, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
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James Newton Howard's score for Unbreakable is a rare animal in movie scoring; it's an album that confounds your expectations, that heads one way just when you think it's going to go another. The movie Unbreakable is about two men. One has almost never been sick or hurt in his life; the other has bones so brittle that a mere stumble could put him into the hospital. The first has a wife and son to whom he's becoming an increasingly distant stranger, the second is a loner, wrapped up in worlds of imaginary heroism. The score reflects the dichotomy of its characters with sometimes wildly varying emotional cues and disparate instruments. The core theme is a driving trip-hop beat--a brave choice for a movie like this--that is interwoven into tense strings and sweeps the listener along. Two of the best pieces on the album--tracks one ("Visions") and six ("Unbreakable")--feature this theme, but that is hardly the extent of Howard's accomplishment. Some of the pieces are moody and quiet, some uplifting, others, full of wonderment (track three, "Weightlifting"). Fitting the movie's tone, the music also descends into a plaintive and distant darkness with a verve that left me shaken. Altogether remarkable.
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