Heartbeat Detector

“A confronting examination of human evil in all its enduring banality, Heartbeat Detector takes a crooked path towards its bid for some straight talking.”

This movie is haunting me. Even though some may say it’s pure pretension, it deals with such a strong theme, on holocaust memory and how we all deal with power, that it’s well worth watching. The way it’s done, I believe, enriches the awkward silence we breath in it. It’s all conceptual, beautiful, painful. It’s brave, and that’s something that cinema lacks nowadays. And yes, the more I think of it, the more I love it.

Beside that, and here’s the reason for my post, the soundtrack of the movie is stunning. It left me breathless. It fits perfectly this awkward mood and it makes the whole images flow better. It’s the most beautiful soundtrack I’ve heard in years.

“Music is a virus,” company HR guy Simon is informed by his girlfriend early on in Nicolas Kotz’s Heartbeat Detector, based on the novel by François Emmanuel. In case we missed the point, one of Simon’s superiors later reminds him, “music doesn’t tolerate hierarchy.” Their warnings are entirely astute: music — in a number of incarnations from techno to fado to violin quartets — is the catalyst of Simon’s slow disintegration. - says Pop Matters.

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