The Hours (Music from the Motion Picture)

The score for the movie adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours, composed by Philip Glass. The music is somewhat continuous, all built upon the same basic motives. The repetition of a three-note phrase is key to the course of the whole, emerging time and time again as the framework for variations around which the rest of the music is arranged. Beyond the simple three-note bits, repetition in general stands as an important part of the music, with the various works eventually dovetailing together in the same basic framework, bringing a sense of return as they come up. The movie features three separate stories of women, all interlinked in the same Virginia Woolf novel, whose lives share recurring themes with one another's. The music stands here to make an auditory note of the parallels with its repetition. The sounds stay relatively mundane for the majority of the work, mirroring the everyday lives which form the basis of the characters' struggles, but it can also go quite dark for periods, touching on the suicidal tendencies held by the various characters in the story. Standing alone, this album might seem rather lackluster with its general sense of dreariness and the unstopping repetitions, despite the prime performance by the Lyric Quartet. Alongside the movie or the novel, however, the score holds a deeper meaning, fitting in with the moods of the story quite well. 

听得浑身发抖，不带一点夸张。这电影我看6遍了，每次看完都觉得浑身被捅了无数刀子

其实很能理解她们为什么痛苦。当内心生生不息的梦想被庸俗的生活层层包裹着，当自我的追求被一种非压迫的，但却足以让人窒息的力量禁锢着，痛苦就是必然的了。整个片子里都没有呈现任何形式的具体的磨难，只有她们对生命本质的忧虑与思索,一切其实都在试图回答那个古老的问题：What do we want ?

每次看都想到这句话“未在深夜痛哭流涕过的人不足以语人生”

《时时刻刻》讲述了三个不同时代的女人和英国女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙的小说《达洛维夫人》的联系。妮可·基德曼凭借此片摘得第75届奥斯卡影后桂冠，而奥斯卡提名时评委们不知道该把她放到最佳女配角还是最佳女演员的提名中，因为梅丽尔·斯特里普在影片中出现42分钟，朱丽安·摩尔是33分钟，她只有30分钟。

家庭是每个女人的牢笼——幸福的牢笼，她只是想冲破这个牢笼，寻找自己的世界，获得属于自己的自由，即使要用死亡来交换。

感觉这个原声是完成的对 Cunningham对Woolf的作品的再加工的再加工，并且完成度很好，让人很容易就能在其中抓到那种流动着的意识。

太喜欢梁文道了，用词精准无比，他写菲利普·格拉斯为电影《 The Hours》(时时刻刻)的配乐——"沉重至极反倒轻盈起来的悲惨基调。"

Dear Leonard, to look life in the face, always. To look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it, for what it is. And then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always the hours.

怒推《时时刻刻》这部片子，无与伦比，无愧9项奥斯卡提名。

你听，你的生活不断重复，循环，有一天你幡然醒悟，只逼得你以死抗争

这样的配乐，剧本，剪辑，卡司还有原著，真是不能更完美

很厉害的一部电影，看完感觉整个人都不好了，配乐点赞！

人常说“没有过不去的坎”却忘了被生活高墙抛弃在其之外的人。她们究竟为何而痛苦？电影没有道出一二。承认自己的缺陷，好像丧失了去快乐和幸福的能力。没关系，死去的，活着的，留在心底的才是永恒 always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always the hours.