Audio By Carbonatix
All right, so I’ve been meaning to make mention of this, but somehow I keep forgetting: Last weekend, I finally saw Seven Pounds, the Fresh Prince‘s latest blockbuster, and I noticed something that I’m wondering if anybody else noticed: Without giving the plot line away, there’s this scene in which our hero, Mr. Smith, is finally about to consummate his relationship with his lovely female co-star, and there’s a piano interlude that’s playing. During the sequence I kept hearing a sour note that made me wince. It was like finger nails on the … well, you know the rest. If you’ve seen the movie did you happen to notice this? (Sweetie didn’t, even after I rewound the movie a half dozen times.) Well, I did, and it made me crazy, which is probably why I kept rewinding the damn thing. It bothered me so much that I googled the words, “sour note” and “Seven Pounds.” The only relevant result I came across was this review in the Providence Phoenix, that both confirmed my suspicion and also co-signed the conclusion that I had reached — that the sour note was intentional and was being used as an unspoken narrative device (she refers to it as a subtle metaphor) meant to convey the notion that as idyllic as the circumstances seemed on the surface, there was a forboding undercurrent of ruination. Who knows? Maybe good ole Betsy and I are both wrong. Maybe somebody just forgot to tune their piano. Or, I don’t know, maybe I just spend too much timing thinking about this kind of stuff.
