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Pixar’s follow-up finds its reason for existing not in adding emotions to the board, but in shifting the conflict from managing what Riley feels to the fragility of how she begins to think about herself. It is a brisker and less revelatory sequel than the first, but one with a recognizable dramatic necessity.
Before looking for a recognizable theme, ask what information the music adds, withholds or shifts. Two contrasting cases—The Village and Michael Clayton—turn that question into a method for a second viewing without assigning the composer what also belongs to editing and the collective work of sound.
The seven films in the collection do not share a fixed grammar of dreams. Rather, they share a problem: how to make an everyday space stop offering reassurance without allowing the viewer to date the moment of rupture with certainty.
