"Bright Star" tells the story of the young poet Keats, after his brother Tom fell seriously ill, moved to a friend's house, and met and fell in love with his female neighbor Fanny Brown. The title of the film is one of the many poems Keats wrote for Brown. , is not superior, but it is very suitable to use it as a solution to refer to the sparkling and moving first love. Mark Bradshaw's soundtrack is closer to Keats' poetry than the overly sweet and sissy film.
The album includes several short poems read aloud by actor Ben Whishaw (starring in "Perfume") and heroine Abbie Cornish. Whish Shaw's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (La Belle Dame Sans Merci) has a weaker voice, but perhaps because of this, it expresses Keats' youthfulness and anxiety about love quite vividly. "Bright Star" was read by Cornish in a hoarse, weeping voice, the pretentious and hesitant gesture of women of that era. Adapted from the closing credits of Mozart's Serenade for Strings K.361 in B-flat, for Ode to a Nightingale, Whishaw is alone in the world of poetry and does not respond to the music as if from heaven. In the film, Keats has died at this time, so poetry has become a third voice outside of heaven and earth. In addition, the album also includes a chanting "letters" of Keats and Brown's exchange of letters. Male and female voices appear alternately, reporting on their respective lives and entrusting each other's thoughts. It is very interesting to use sometimes gentle and sometimes dangerous music to express the emotional state of a person in love who is suddenly enlightened when reading a letter, and anxious when waiting for the letter.
Some people think this album has a little more vocals, but when Whishaw's voice is no less than music, when it comes with the bleak theme of the violin, there is a certain chemical effect that brings back the infatuation of first love with fragility. Composer Blashaw only contributed two ditties "Convulsion" and "Return" on the album, and most of the other music was adapted from Mozart's works. But as Bryshaw's soundtrack debut, we can still detect his talent. In addition, the album retains many natural sounds, such as nightingales chirping and raindrops hitting the windows, which are beautiful.
The whole album is very short, only 23 and a half minutes, like a little poem that is still unfinished, but also like Keats's life that ended in such a hurry. Twenty-three was the age when Keats met Fanny Brown, and two years later Keats died of a cold.
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