I had never heard of the German based electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss before his "...Passing By" popped up in Elizabethtown. After spending the entire night on the phone with one another (more on that later) Drew (Orlando Bloom) and Claire (Kristen Dunst) decide to drive half way right before dawn to meet one another. As their cars approach each other in the early morning mist, "…Passing By" plays in a relatively wraith-like instrumental hymn as it evokes the sound of sound of dawn as these two characters once again come face-to-face for their next quest. It's insertion in the film was so left field that if I had heard the song out of the framework of the film I am not sure it would have had the same force.
It's the sound of a sun rising, the moon setting and a new beginning. The synth melody descends like shooting stars and reminds me of moments full of euphoria.
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