THE HEALING POWER OF MOVIE MUSIC

  • Film scores can provide nice background music, enhance the pictures and words on the screen; they can be filled with pop songs that raise the film’s grosses; they can hype the love, the fear, the horror you see unfolding on screen. Can movie music also help us psychologically, by “making the ritual complete, helping us heal through catharsis”? – Ovation 03/12/00 [text and audio]