... film where Frank Poole gets a recorded birthday message from his parents. The scene has no music in the background, not setting up what is supposed to be a happy occasion. These scenes display how the idea of life isn't celebrated with full vitality as it once was, de-humanizing the concept in a busy, structural environment. It is seen as merely an obligated past ... time, losing its genuineness over the course of time. This contrasts the beginning of the movie, where the birth of a civilization was a monumental event, full of energetic movement and sound, as well music when the bone wa...

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