The first piece includes samples from the score to a film entitled "Rupture," directed by Tobin Addington. The film is about a troubled young man, Kenny, whose obsession with a classmate gets out of control. The first portion of this sample is the opening credits for the film, which run after the body of a murder victim is found. The second portion of this sample is underscoring for the cinematic juxtaposition of Kenny's sexual fantasy's of his classmate with his recollection of the murder. Written and performed by Thomas Newman and Mike Pettry.
This selection includes three samples from the score for the film entitled "Near the End of August," directed by Tobin Addington. This film is about a young woman who witnesses the beating of a man outside a local bar in the Midwest but she does nothing to help him. Her parents are out of town and she fears that if she helps, it would result in unwanted complications to a weekend of "private time" with her boyfriend. She must come to terms with her selfish decision to let the man die, and she must discover that her self-worth extends beyond the boundaries of her troubled relationship.
The first sample plays as she makes plans with her boyfriend to stay at her house over the weekend. Her boyfriend is withdrawn, and she is desperate to save their relationship. They share a cold kiss and study each other's faces a moment before he turns and walks toward his home. The young woman watches as her boyfriend crosses a landscape shadowed by a beautiful and ominous thunderstorm.
The second sample plays during a cinematic sequence in which the young woman passes through a day at her high school. She is clearly an outsider, shunned even by her boyfriend. Bethany Kennington sings this song by Sarah Looney.
The third sample plays as the young woman dramatically tears her boyfriend away from the badly wounded man outside the bar. They are very frightened; the couple panics, then they jump into their car and drive off, leaving the man on the ground to die.
