Monday, 18 February 2008

"One of these mornings" and "Sound of Silence"

Episode 3 of the second series of Torchwood takes a good sci fi series to a new level. "To The Last Man" sees love struck Toshiko falling for a handsome soldier. She has dressed for the occasion and has made big effort to look her best. But "Tommy is man out of time. Woken every year for his cryogenic sleep. Jack promises that one day they will need him. This year his time, and Tosh's will come......but the time is 1918." A time travelling drama at its best, enhanced greatly by Moby's "One of these Mornings" played at the beginning and the end of the episode. I had never heard the song before, but whoever chose it deserves a medal.

I was more impressed with Emilio Esteves' film "Bobby" than the critics. The final sequence was particulary emotional when Bobby Kennedy starts his final speech in the Ambassador Hotel in LA. "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfukel starts to play in the background and but soon is all you can hear as the cast watches and cheers. Brilliant. It was also the song I can most remember from "The Graduate". Both can be seen on Youtube.

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