Janae Epp’s Reviews > Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience > Status Update

“From within a culture that suffers under the weight of a surfeit of information and a distinct lack of deep and thoughtful reflection, do films like Cars promote the cultivation of wisdom, or do they simply present us with something more easily digested but far from enduring?” Author advocates for meaningful use of film (including other Pixar films) where music invites engagement, not mindless reception.

“The images…offered us an invitation to remember our loss and, in an important sense, functioned as an embodiment of our pain. But it was the music that expressed something that even the most explicit visual or narrative reference to our pain-filled story could not contain: the redemptive power of hard-won hope.”