With Foster\'s character finally reaching her point of revenge in the track "Retribution", we can clearly hear the cacophony of madness of the characters anger coming out in the very beginning. We are then given harsh chordal choices to listen to with slow cello and staccato piano coming in much later, by this time the track is 75 percent over. We are first introduced to it by the same sample we hear in "Corner-shop" which quickly fades. Conversely, the track "I Saw Nobody, Nobody Saw Me", seem to never have gotten off the ground. This is one track that I feel stands on its own. With "Back to the Crime Scene", Marianelli gives us a little something extra to perk our ears to, namely the alternating of pizzicato and arco lower strings beneath the ever evolving central theme played by winds, which then alternates back and forth between high-winds and cello. A fair amount of tension is built using dissonant harmonies and overtones below a sad melodic line in this track. Contained within the first few seconds of "Corner-shop" is a sample played in reverse, which sounds like a beating heart, and works in the context of the film. This may very well work within the movie itself but wholly by itself it does not - to stand on its own it needs to be more fully developed. Certainly it gives the feeling of despair, but only vaguely. When Jodie Foster\'s character of violent crime victim Erica Bain is unwilling to wait the time need to secure a gun license, she turns to illegal means. But this soon diminishes with the constant light jingling of a chain in the first half of "The Tunnel" with its solemn string harmony and a feeling of emptiness. At first I thought that his use of guitar in the track "Erica" was an enhancement, and it does give it a tender feel and fluid quality. Coming into The Brave One, and going on the assumption that I would be in for a treat based on Dario Marianelli\'s previous work with the V for Vendetta score, I was sorely disappointed.
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