music for this film is splendidl. it wont let it become one of those puritanic sagas,oozing with `ancient wisdom`,boasting the classical motif of the `human authenticity` that evaporated at the dawn of the 20th century.like the voice of an uncompromising narrator,the music,subtle and vigilant,keeps the drama tight and won`t let it slip into a false historical perspective, providing excuses for characters` behaviour.

it does not have those tremendous operatic crescendos that usually mark the important moments of the plot or intensify the key-parts , in fact it has this awesome quality of flowing on its own, retelling the story, like a silent witness, like a wind that crosses the movie taking no moral stance. i think music is partly responsible for this feeling of `openness`: that , when the film ends, the story does not, it instigate you to go investigate other corners of existence, it even minimalizes the importance of the characters, stating that they are not unique in playing this sort of drama, that it is universal and mostly unchanged, whether in 13th century or in 37th. it says `i told you a story about things you know`. no trace of dreamy nostalgia in this movie, no illusion that there were beter times and better people , no escapist laments that the golden age of the Man has passed. brilliant and lucid, mature and lacking a boyish enthusiasm for the `pioneers` , not attempting to reconstruct the atmosphere of an epoch by all means, it succeeds in portraying the man, in his most grisly aspects. Mr. Plainview rises as a contemporary to fear..