The music in movies is honored every year with two Academy Awards: one for Best Score, one for Best Original Song. But how much do those things really contribute to a film? And, perhaps more important, how much should they contribute?

I often muse on these questions. But what a soundtrack brings to a movie was really brought home to me last week, when I had to watch a film without one.

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