> I completely agree with you Aidan.

> And so what if the final track is not composed by him? Soundtrack is a
> mapping of music to picture, and the final track was just perfect. It even
> melds with the rest of the music on this CD.

> I think this reviewer is just too use to the classic notion of what a
> soundtrack is suppose to be. This arragement is just too alien for him.
> For similar reasons, The Fountain got a bad review from this website too.

> At the end of the day, Babel's music lives like a spirit in the movie. It
> not only elevates the film but adds soul and breaths life into it. The
> fact that it doesn't have consistent melody, theme and all those
> 'traditional' elements are moot.

> People have no imagination these days.

A score doesn't need a theme or a melody to be considered good and it doesn't need to be traditional either. Jerry Goldsmith and Ennio Morricone and even Hans Zimmer have strayed from using pure ochrestral elements in their work and they have made great music. Those three composers have more imagination in my opinion than Gustavo has had in his entire career.