| All good points, GMB, and you've clearly looked at it more deeply than I (I saw it once in the theater and the thoughts I expressed above are ones I felt painfully aware of in real time as it was going by). But I'll agree that the ensemble IS necessary during those battle sequences -- I just wish those sequences, and many others, didn't continually rely so heavily on narration in the writing. It's a stylistic choice, for sure -- and one that rap is at least well suited for (though rap, of course, is only a portion of this diverse score), but a choice that I personally find less involving emotionally and mentally as scenes where we actually see human interaction spurring the narrative forward. |
